08/08/2026
I think sometimes people imagine that because I hold sound baths, I must have this whole ārestingā thing figured out.
That Iām naturally calm. That I can simply stop, switch off and settle whenever I choose.
I really canāt.
I know that feeling I sometimes see in people at the beginning of a sound bath all too well.
The restlessness. The agitation.
The body lying still while something inside is saying, Come on. We should be doing something more productive.
I have that voice too.
Sometimes I find it incredibly difficult to stop doing.
Thereās always another email, another job, another idea, another thing that could be sorted out.
And even when I deliberately stop, part of me can still be quietly reminding me of everything I should be doing instead.
I feel a pull in my abdomen - an ache, a pang š©
I have to make rest a deliberate act.
Almost like a tiny ceremony.
And one of my favourites is cacao š
I make myself a cup, take it to the garden and sit. No laptop. No job to complete. Nothing Iām trying to achieve.
Sometimes itās only ten minutes.
And for those ten minutes, my only job is to drink the cacao, look at the garden and allow myself to be there.
Iām sharing this because if you ever come to one of my sound baths and find yourself struggling to settle, please donāt look towards the front of the room and imagine thereās someone sitting there who has somehow mastered all of this.
He hasnāt- far from it.
Thereās just another human being who knows what it feels like to have a busy mind, a restless body and that nagging little voice saying, āCome on, you should be doing something now.ā
And who is still learning, that I donāt always have to be doing something in order to be worthy of this life.
Sometimes Iām allowed to just sit in the garden, drink my cacao and be present to life āØ
