What is stillness?

[Louisabell]

I don't know if what I can offer is of any use really. I'm not the best at the practice of stillness for the sake of it. Stillness for me is opening up to the possibility of going deeper. Going deeper into the moment, which really for me is going deeper into the mind that is perceiving the moment. As I go further in, I seem to always find something within that I get enamoured with. Something of great interest to me. Usually this is when I reach the point where thought is pre-conceptual and mostly impressional

(even before I consciously embarked on any spiritual practice I would try to "catch" a thought before it turned into an inner dialogue, and just sit with it, allowing the "information" contained within it to impress on me without words, this was my idea of fun, causing in me total wonderment as to where these magical packets of "information" sprung from!)

I suppose this interest draws me in, and I easily lose myself in the act of observing the inner movements of my own mind.  This interest is most conducive to maintaining a single pointed attention, for I could do this for long periods of time, if only my lifestyle would allow it. But perhaps I'm simply entertaining myself and I'm just an addict to insight. Either way, it feels good.

Sorry, this was all unrelated to breathwork, which admittedly, I've never tried.