427 thoughts on “The Beauty of Stillness in my Hands”

1. Whatever we have done to our hands, we can always make that choice to reconnect to that delicacy our hands are able to express and make them the tools through which we can express and share the love that lives within with everybody we meet.

2. We can be so hard on our hands while they hold such a delicate and tender touch. Is it possible that in making our hands hard that we live in avoidance of this delicateness that comes from within and can be naturally expressed by our hands?

3. Beautiful. Simply a powerful message in its delicate terms. We are here to be sacred from our connection and in our movements, this is what we mostly miss. Time to bring it back into our lives.

4. Taking the time to connect to my hands, especially my fingertips, has been the most priceless commitment in my every day life. Feeling all the parts of my hands and sometimes bringing the palms together and delicately touching each fingertip has the power to reconnect me to the rest of my body and to how it is truly feeling. I often find myself closing my eyes and connecting to my breath at the same time, and as I do I can feel the stillness that is always with me begin to ripple throughout every particle of my being; very yummy indeed!

5. It has been through Esoteric Yoga that i too have discovered that within me, within my body, there is a depth of stillness that feels like it goes on and on forever… Without discovering this through Esoteric Yoga, through the connection into my body, life in this ‘modern 24/7 environment would be far less than grand than it is now, now knowing my Soul, what love is, and that there is far more to life than just the everyday ‘mundane-ness’ we superficially experience.

6. Very beautiful reminder Coleen that truth is love, and love is always calling us to be more and more of the love we are by way of our openness to the truth of what is and what is not of this love. Our every part of our body constantly reflects the truth as you have wisely shared, as such wise it is to stop and check in with our bodies and its innate intelligence that at heart knows only to guide us to be more of who we are in essence.

7. When you spoke of using your hands as functional workhorses, to serve whatever the mind was deeming was the thing to do, I know this is how all of the body is used when we choose to not be present with ourselves. We become hard all over from that drive, which apart from exhausting us, stops us from feeling the delicacy and sensitivity we are, and that we can feel all manner of things, in detail, energetic as well as physical.

8. Such a great blog to read first thing before I start my day reminding me that there is always a choice as to how I move my body in the world.

9. It’s true that our hands can be at the mercy of the state of the mind. If we are in a driven mode and are driving ourselves to get everything done it is our hands that have to do it all. Great point! So focusing on the quality of the movement of our hands is a great way of cutting the domination of the mind and lovingly choosing a different way.

10. This is gorgeous. Thank you for the reminder of the delicacy of our hands, and that they represent and express the energy we are choosing to run with. Focusing on using them in a way that honours them allows us to honour the rest of the body.

    1. When I focus on my hands I do naturally become tender in all what I do. So indeed a great reminder to remind myself on focusing on my hands more often.

11. Beautifully observed Coleen. Connecting to the quality, delicacy and exquisite touch of my hands confirms my true nature.

    1. Well said Rosanna. We really do have everything we need to know of who we are, in all its magnificence, literally and tangibly at our fingertips.

12. What a gorgeous blog Coleen, and now I have so much more awareness of my hands and how I am moving them. Am I absent when moving them or am I moving them with the quality of delicateness and awareness? If I am honest I tend to move between the two, and now make a conscious choice to move them in connection with all of my body!

13. How extraordinary that we can bring awareness to an area of our body, like our fingertips, and they can ache afterwards like we have had a workout. It is illogical from what we know according to the way intellect works at the moment, yet when we consider that everything is energy and everything is because of energy we can understand how the body holds on to memories till it is ready to release them and the connective tissue adjusts to the space or tension. Having felt it, it feels so logical to me now.

    1. Absolutely Lucy. Once it is experienced, this energetic fact cannot be un-known, it can be denied, but not un-experienced.

       1. That is the wonderful fact of the body, you can’t unfeel what you felt. It is the marker of all truth according to Serge Benhayon and when you take it to this simplicity it is fact.

14. As I pressed my mouse to send the last message I got an image of the ripple effect of our actions online, so if we hammer our keyboard and then slam the mouse to move around the screen or press send then it just feels jarring compared to considering the impact of my actions and simple movements and choosing to do them with more focus and presence. This doesn’t make them soft because that wouldn’t be much better, there is simply more awareness of the impact and impress we are leaving behind or sending out.

15. The delicateness we can connect to in our relationship with our fingers is never far from the surface since doing the Esoteric Yoga. It was the medium for me to reconnect to them and then see how that touch feels in everything I do. It pulls me back when I type, when I clean my face, when I pick things up and put them back. Thank you once again for the reminder that little things matter as they have big ripple effects.

    1. Yes Lucy, everything counts, everything has ripple effects, and details and all the little things do matter, showing us how aware or not we are in any given moment.

       1. What I have noticed is the subtle things we do that seemingly don’t count but plant a seed that ‘doubt’ can come back to. Everything matters, sow seeds of quality so that is what we feel and build as a foundation to stand on regardless of what comes into our lives.

    2. Seeing the ripple of our movements from how we are on the keyboard to clicking a mouse in your earlier example is so practical and shows how we can be fully responsible for what we send out into the universe.

16. There is much to share on this subject: asking us all, how much do we allow our beauty to come out? Have we created more ways to suppress it ?
    I for myself can say that I have lived based on a lack of self-worth, now since I had committed to my truth again, finding out more and more the worth (love) that I actually Am, so now I am observing all ways which I have played less than who I am. Finding out every day that there is more and more to be re-discovered.

17. We come to realize that we have sought truth outside of ourselves. By virtue of doing this, we create a whole different reality than we actually know to be (truth).

18. As I read this lovely blog I found myself bringing the tips of my fingers together and feeling the delicateness flowing from all my fingers, running the fingertips of one hand down the inside of the other hand; it felt exquisite. Since being introduced to the beauty of my hands through the Stillness Program for Women I have been continually delighted how different it is to do certain things when I first focus on their innate delicacy and how they then respond in kind.

19. Thank you Coleen, it’s a simple focus to bring our awareness to our hands and to use how they feel as a gauge of the overall quality we are connected to. It’s also quite lovely to bring awareness to our hands – which I plan on doing more of today! Your words also about your relationship to life and how this has been reflected in your hands are very supportive, there is a lot to consider about how we are with life and how this is expressed through our hands.

20. This is very cool – I’m going to bring more attention to my hands today, the first thing I notice is I need hand cream! I know in the past I’ve brought attention to the delicateness of my fingertips and it’s been very beneficial in helping me to keep focused on the task I’m doing.

21. Coleen thank you for the reminder that our hands are indeed very delicate and it is when we are distracted that we tend to be much harder on them. When we are aware and connected to our hands we are able to pick up a lot of information just through touch and feel.

22. Thank you Coleen for a great blog reminding me to take more tender care of my hands realising that every part of life is graced by our touch when it is tender and delicate.

    1. Thank you Jill for your words “every part of life is graced by our touch when it is tender and delicate.” I notice when I am rough with myself and how I move I feel cut off from the my natural understanding that I am part of the all and having an effect on others. When I am connected to my Soul and tender and delicate with the way I move the care for others is automatically there as is the awareness of the whole I am part of and having an effect on.

23. Indeed so much is revealed by our hands and especially how we have moved and used them.. A profound watch and observation of our own movements; for example when we cut our hand with a paper cut or when we have used them roughly and lift up something delicate it often clashes. It is this reflection that we are given of how we actually can live more supportive and lovingly towards ourselves, and pay attention to moving more delicately and in a way that does not push but actually allows space in and between our movements.

24. It’s amazing what our body can reflect to us about the kind of energy that we’re doing things in, and so far from just being a functional vehicle, our body is super sensitive and helps us to reconnect with there being more to life than just the physical.

25. I LOVE ❤️ Esoteric Yoga which is quite something for someone that didn’t like it at all. It is such a beautiful modality and I agree with the fact that with Esoteric Yoga we get to feel both the stillness, beauty and grandness of who we are, as well as all we have lived. It is quite remarkable and super super supportive in giving us a space to feel this in order to move forward making different choices from how we have lived before.

26. When I bring my awareness to the delicacy in my fingertips my whole body responds accordingly. It is very beautiful.

27. Thank you.. a point of inspiration tonight to allow myself to feel the residue of some harsh movements today, and then the stillness and delicacy that is always underneath that outer layer, and so much grander and deeper.

28. ” I could choose to have the same hands I had had as a baby – delicate, sensitive and tenderly aware of how my touch engages with the outside world.” Beautiful Coleen – we always have a choice as to how to move and be with all parts of our body. The question is why do we let go of this sensitivity early in life? To fit in with those around us, who have equally given up on their delicacy and tenderness.

29. I love looking at my hands and stopping to check in my movements throughout the day particularly at work. Feeling my fingertips as I push the keys on the keyboard or how I give customers back their change, all offer me opportunities to not only deepen my body awareness but also appreciate the connections with others too.

30. There is so much to feel from our body and in esoteric yoga we are offered the space to (re)connect to this. There is a natural stillness and beauty within us and by simply connecting to this, it can be brought out into expression again.

31. Our hands are an extremity of our body (obviously!!) but as such I find they are also an early warning sign of what is going on physiologically for me. If my hands are cold, I will often check in to see what is going on in my body, for example, if I have lost the flow in my lymph and therefore there is less blood circulating in my hands. They may also well be telling me it is colder than I have appreciated! I used to ignore all of these conversations but what a disservice I did to my body that was trying to communicate with me.

32. What I have noticed lately more and more is not only stillness in parts and in the the movements of my body, such as hands, fingertips, feet, etc, but also in my voice. The quality of my voice is another clear indicator for me how I have been treating myself and how honoring I am with others too.

33. I can tell how I have been treating my body by looking at the conditions of my hands, the texture of my skin, my fingers and nails. I currently have small burns, scratches, insect bites and a chipped nail which are all signs showing me I have been moving my body with hardness, rush and disregard. So, I am going to take time to nurture my hands and my body. Today I am going to do some gardening with gloves on and use my body with more care, gentleness and love. Thank you Coleen for this beautiful reminder to connect to the stillness of my entire body.

34. If I can’t feel my fingertips I know I am not connected to my body nor to my stillness. Same goes for my feet and toes, body awareness is crucial. I walk differently when I am connected to the delicateness inside.

35. Our bodies are such great reminders of the love and delicateness we naturally are. We only have to choose to be aware and listen to what it is saying to us rather than overriding us. We can ignore our bodies, push them to the extreme to a state of exhaustion, yet they are always here for us no matter, giving us constant reminders to come back to our tender selves. No wonder there are so many injuries and illness and diseases in the world, not as a punishment but rather a re-correcting way, a way of our bodies saying enough is enough you are love and living any less than the love you are is abuse.

36. Being delicate is a great strength that honours our being and the body we live in and take everywhere, day in and day out.

    1. I used to think delicateness was a weakness instead of claiming the strength and power it offers me and my body consistently.

37. We so often use our hands as ‘functional workhorses’. Yet when we feel them and deeply appreciate how we can move them with gentleness and delicateness, even typing becomes a loving act.

38. It is through our hands that we know gentleness, that which is at the very core of the essence of who we truly are.

39. I love connecting to the delicateness of my fingertips – and sometimes I can feel the forearms or the thumb rather engaged and tensed up at the same time, at times even with pain, and this happens when I am in drive and seeking recognition of some sort – and when I clock that, I am able to come back to just be me in whatever I am doing instead of going after certain outcome.

40. It is one thing to feel our delicateness, it is another thing to make it our way of living. The choice is always ours and it is worth bringing our delicateness to the surface and presenting it to the world through the movements and expressions that our hands make.

    1. I agree Leigh, we can make delicateness an intellectual exercise and this is a great place to start, but if we don’t bring it into our movements then we only have half of the picture. When we take time to appreciate the delicateness that we can feel in our fingers, how little they are and yet how much they are asked to do, I have found it feeds back to the body, just as the body feeds back to the fingers. Together, this awareness builds delicateness as a natural way of moving and is much less imposing on the body as a whole.

41. This is a beautiful article. Our hands literally are the part of our body that does so much, they are our work horses, they are also our touch, love and care of ourselves and another. With the wisdom offered here I feel very clearly the possibility of everything that we do with our hands becomes the essence of joy and love, done with the delicateness that is innate in our fingertips.

42. ‘I was delighting in how delicate my hands felt and I had a sense of how much delicateness and stillness they were capable of holding.’ When I make the bed in the morning I love to feel the delicate tenderness in my hands as I smooth the sheets.

43. The movement of our hands tell us so much, but like you write we have two energy’s present and can choose either harmony or rigidity…..

44. The exquisiteness of our stillness is personified when we surrender to moving in connection to the essence of our being, our Soul, through which we offer to this world a true representation of who we all are. You highlight here so beautifully Coleen, just how powerful developing a relationship with our bodies is, with every part of our body equally offering us the opportunity to connect to and be guided by a greater wisdom that resides therein.

45. To experience the beauty of stillness in the hands or whole body, is profound.. the more you drop into its ocean, into the stillness, the more you’re pulled back to its gentle shores whenever you’ve gone adrift… Like a beacon of light, it shines “this is home”.

46. Our hands share so much and when we are touched by someone who has a tender-ness that is lived, then what is felt is a deep level of connection and an awareness that this is also a part of me. Amazing what a body can feel!

    1. So true Greg – our bodies can communicate and share so much so that words are not even needed. This certainly highlights the fact that our bodies truly are vessels through which energy moves through.

       1. Spot on Carola, and may I add that when we appreciate this expression then the appreciation is something that adds to our evolution.

47. This blog connects me with the appreciation of my hands, that although I use to treat them with some hardness, are deeply sensitive. Bringing awareness to this area is an opportunity for me now to be aware of the quality I live in and the quality I offer in all what I do

48. “I was astonished by the matter-of-fact honesty offered by my body without recrimination or blame: just a sharing of truth and the offering of a choice – continue with the harshness or choose to honour my hands in the delicateness and stillness that I truly am. ” how beautiful is that, just an offering to come back to the gentleness and tenderness that we naturally are, with no recrimination or blame, I appreciated your sharing Coleen after just giving myself a hard time.

49. I have so much more awareness of my hands after reading this delightful blog, and actually feel to give them much more attention in how I use and move them, in how I lift things, close doors, touch things ect. which feels a great support during the day to discern if I am in my body and moving from stillness.

50. What a gorgeous title ‘The beauty of stillness in my hands’. Also through the Esoteric Yoga modality, I have experienced my hands in a whole new way. We often don’t appreciate our hands and the immense work they do for us, often when I am driving long distances I bring my awareness and focus to my hands and fingertips and feel how delicate and tender they are, this really supports me to stay in my body and not to check out when I am driving.

    1. Great tip as I know I stil check out when driving, although less and less now, because of the purpose and focus I have developed – there is no time to check with so much true work to be done.

51. So true Coleen: As am I absolutely worth being delicate with me, as the woman that I am.” It is all about the mastery of oneself – in absolute contentment to our universe and humanity – becoming less and less an individual.

52. I love Esoteric Yoga it is so very supportive in allowing our body and selves to be, feeling all that is there to feel (even if at times it is feeling irritable!) and giving us the space to expand, feel and accept the absolute loveliness we truly are. It is a Gorgeous modality.

53. “I was astonished by the matter-of-fact honesty offered by my body without recrimination or blame: just a sharing of truth and the offering of a choice” I was stopped by the simple humility ever-present in our bodies. Unassuming truth that just holds us without judgement.

54. I have been feeling such a powerful feeling of stillness in my body over the last couple of days and it feels priceless to live this way. No jagged edges from drama or reaction, with interchanges and movements happening in grace.

55. Allowing someone to feel the tenderness of our heart through our hands or feeling another through the tenderness of theirs is truly exquisite.

56. My hands wanted to give this blog a clap, they said they have been waiting for someone with a mouth to speak on behalf of them but on reflection they didn’t realize that they had the power this whole time. That they had access to a key board and could have gently typed their truth for the world to share. They are however grateful that your hands spoke and wrote on behalf of all the hands in humanity. My left hand wanted to share that she has a lot to offer in the way of slowing down and being gentle and my right hand wanted to share that although he is very coordinated and strong, he often feels he carries too much and then tightens and hardness because of the pressure. My hands wanted to communicate that if they are connected they are much more likely to move with flow, but when they are left to do things on their own, they often have to call in a force in order to be able complete a task. They are looking forward to a whole and gentle experience after this blog. Clap, Clap and thank you!

    1. Clap clapping this comment of yours Sarah, with the sound of two lovely hands clapping.

57. Placing our awareness on any part of our body brings so much detail and awareness of what our body truly can bring to us. Handling the immenseness of what the hands and finger can bring is continually amazing me, because of the true Love and Tenderness they feel!

58. Nothing more beautiful than a mans tender hands.

59. It’s amazing how much we take our hands for granted. But if we have a cut or a scald we become super aware. Paying attention to our fingertips was something mentioned in a women’s group some time ago that has stayed with me. Reading this blog has me appreciating their delicacy once more.

60. Appreciating the delicateness of our hands supports us in knowing our true nature and to honour the level of sensitivity within ourselves, for thereafter, we can imprint life with a quality which is healing for the all.

61. ‘I was delighting in how delicate my hands felt and I had a sense of how much delicateness and stillness they were capable of holding.’ I am especially feeling the delicate tenderness in my hands today, so was wonderful to read this blog and feel even more, the true beauty we can all bring.

62. My nails are so beautiful at the moment, it’s a wonderful point of appreciation to how I am being with myself.

63. Tender, warm, and delicate hands and fingers are a direct reflection of the beauty in someone’s heart.

    1. And may I add Vicky, by sharing, our hands should be treated as if they are so sensitive that they need gloves at times, pampering at times and also general nurturing by painting our nails or having a manicure!

       1. So very true Greg. And they respond so quickly, forever reflecting the care, love and warmth we are willing to embrace.

       2. Spot on Vicky, and what you have shared is also true for the whole body, so as we embrace more Love our whole body responds.

64. Our entire body is extremely delicate and it is through our hands and fingertips that we can connect to this more, probably because we use them so much on a daily basis. There is something about our finger tips that we can really feel our delicateness when we bring our attention and awareness to them.

65. What I love about our bodies is the open honesty they reveal and expose, without an ounce of judgment…”…just a sharing of truth and the offering of a choice – continue with the harshness or choose to honour my hands in the delicateness and stillness that I truly am.” So very simple.

66. These few words capture what Esoteric Yoga has given to me too, Coleen – “a sharing of truth and the offering of a choice”. Thank you for sharing the exquisiteness that awaits us when we choose to deeply re-connect to ourselves.

    1. So true Janet, and may I also share, exquisite but at the same time natural and normal!

67. Taking moments to pause and reflect on my movements by observing my hands has shown me how present I have been in my movements. A chipped nail or rough cuticles usually reflects a real sense of rush and through this awareness I have found how much more enjoyable it is to move with presence and enjoy the delicateness within my movements.

    1. There’s so much to listen to from our hands. All we have to do is listen.

68. I like the way that my hands are the point at which I make contact with the world and especially with people. And so the way or the quality in which I make this contact is totally governed by me and how I have chosen to move right up until that moment, which can be done with so much grace and delicate care.

    1. Wow, I love that! That our touch is how we make contact with the world and with people, and the result of how we have lived up until that moment. I will thoroughly enjoy embracing that.

69. Our hands say so much. I was recently having a conversation with someone about self care and they were struggling with how exhausted they were. I was later shopping for hand creams and remembered that not only did this person have an exquisitely gently touch, but how they do in fact touch the lives of others. So I bought them some hand cream and presented in to them with what I have just presented. Our hands say so much more that the physical action itself. I knew that this moment and our sharing would really support and deepen what self care is.

70. I was really struck by the title of this blog today “the beauty of stillness in my hands” as sometimes I will look at my hands when I am really present with myself and marvel at how much tenderness and stillness I can do things in. Throughout our day we touch so many things with our hands and have an opportunity to bring so much beauty to all that we touch.

71. It’s incredible how much our hands express. We can use them to express anger, frustration or greed, or we can use them to express the energy of love. Both are possible. It’s just up to us what we want to express.

    1. When you observe people talk, they often express with their hands. By watching their moments we can easily tell if they are angry, frustrated or expressing from love. Isn’t it interesting how much we communicate with our hands?

       1. I totally agree Chan the way we use our hands in communication says so much about how we are living and what emotion we might be expressing. If our movements reflect a deeper connection we are living then its truly beautiful to observe the tenderness they communicate.

72. I can feel the difference you describe in my hands when I am doing something Coleen, it is fascinating to observe. They are a reflection of what has been happening in the rest of my body and a great marker to be aware of, when typing for instance, how I am pressing the key shows me how much negativity I have absorbed during the day. The observation is teaching me to hold on my tenderness, we are given so many signs to observe when we notice them.

73. As a way of evolution, which brings being tender to how we do most things, so that starts, with being with our fingers then hands and forearms. It has become amazing how much tenderness comes, to these areas of our body with a focus, as is presented in Esoteric Yoga.

74. Reading your blog I can feel a change in my relationship with my fingers this morning. It is very powerful when we bring presence to our body and its movements.

75. How beautiful and simple to choose to have that same quality of delicateness in our hands we had as a baby. It is a known within us that we can simply return to.

76. This is an amazing testimony of the power of Esoteric Yoga

77. Thank you Coleen, it is through our hands that we know gentleness and through it we discover our stillness within.

78. After reading this blog, I have so much more awareness of my hands and the quality I am using them, even this minute while I am typing. It makes such a difference when I bring awareness to my fingertips feeling the gentleness in each one of my fingers.

79. Feeling the delicacy of ourselves through our hands is an amazing knowing that ripples throughout our whole body and is a real maker for who we are inside from our fingertips and our awareness of this.

80. It is truly lovely to be brought back to the delicateness of our touch. This blog reminds me that I have exquisite tenderness at the tip of my fingers available to me at all times!

81. I have experienced incredible sensitivity in my hands during esoteric yoga sessions and reading this blog I can feel that the way I type these words is much more delicate than normal. Thank you for reminding me to connect to my beautiful fingertips,a gateway to connection to soul.

82. Sometimes it can seem as though changing your life is too overwhelming, too hard to master and a bit out of reach. But what if we stopped focusing on the whole thing and just chose one part of our body to connect to? This is something I have done at times, and I’ve found it helps me be so much more aware of how I move, live and feel. Maybe it’s your back, maybe your legs but this practice of checking in regularly with your physique has shown me we all have the power to transform ourselves in our own hands. Thank you Coleen for this beautiful blog.

83. As I read this blog again, I felt my body to let go of hardness as I deepened my connection to the stillness within. I can feel how harsh I have been and continue to be with my hands. I have a pattern of putting on hand cream in a harsh way which in itself is very telling of how I use my hands and expect them to ‘do’ throughout the day. Bringing awareness to our hands and our fingertips is a great place to start shifting old patterns of pushing and drive.

    1. That’s pretty awesome when you think about it Fiona; ‘ Bringing awareness to our hands and our fingertips is a great place to start shifting old patterns of pushing and drive’. Our bodies communicate so much when we are open to reading them.

84. I have met several old ladies with severe arthritis in their hands and am often concerned that mine will go the same way – the knuckle joints are swollen and there are times when my hands feel stiff and painful. It is always a time for me to look back and see what I have been doing in the days before, how I have been feeling and how tender I have been.

    1. Our bodies are a constant reflection of the choices we make and in any moment we can choose to make different choices if we listen to the signals, signs and communication we are given.

85. Just reading this makes me want to focus on the delicacy available in my hands. My typing can be quite hard on the keyboard sometimes. Eradicating this hardness is just a choice. I can choose to type delicately and it feels so different. My whole body loves it when I do this.

86. “I have long been amazed by the way in which the practice of Esoteric Yoga brings not only a reconnection to inner stillness, but also a deep awareness of stillness being a state of being that is actually innate to our bodies…” – before Esoteric Yoga I was not truly living life but instead getting squashed by its vacuum… unknowing of the precious quality laying deep within that steadies and focuses through life, the backbone to successful living is living the quality of stillness as best you can.

87. “I could choose to have the same hands I had had as a baby – delicate, sensitive and tenderly aware of how my touch engages with the outside world.” Bringing this delicacy to everything we do can and does actually change the relationship we have with and how we are with so many things. The tenderness of our touch cannot be underestimated.

88. What you share about our hands is so true Coleen, so having moments in our day where we become aware of our hands, or our touch, is great way of supporting us to reconnect back to our innermost quality

89. Hands are such a beautiful way to stay present, gently touching everything, feeling our tenderness.

90. Coming back to this blog once more I am reminded of the power and grace of feeling and connecting to our delicacy, especially through our hands. Thank you.

91. ” As am I absolutely worth being delicate with me, as the woman that I am.” A Beautiful sharing and a joy to read and honour our stillness and delicateness . Esoteric Yoga is a real gift in supporting us to feel who we are and our hands are a real marker with this.

92. Delicateness is our true nature, the quality in how we move and do things is far more important than mere functionality and the body will always communicate this.

93. Deepening our awareness of the stillness and delicacy in our hands means that everything we do is touched by this quality, and magnified when we hold hands.

94. Our hands really are quite extraordinary, they, more than any other part of our bodies are asked to perform an enormous array of tasks, from the delicate, needlework, surgery, painting of fingernails, to the daily tasks of cooking, lifting of objects ranging from light to very heavy. They are submerged in water hot and cold, used for swimming, gardening, cleaning, writing, painting. Maybe most surprising is their physical strength, if needed our fingers can actually hold out whole body weight, as with rock climbing, yet they are also divinely delicate and gentle, as determined by the quality of our energy. It feels very beautiful to allow the space to consider and truly appreciate all that my hands do and in turn, be very aware of the energy in which I am moving them.

95. ‘… the practice of Esoteric Yoga brings not only a reconnection to inner stillness, but also a deep awareness of stillness being a state of being that is actually innate to our bodies (no matter how far away from it we may think ourselves to be).’ – So gorgeous to be reminded of this fact, that we all naturally hold stillness in our bodies, we don’t have to go searching for it, it’s simply a case of choosing to re-connect to what is already there waiting for us.

96. “All of this I felt as I observed my hands from stillness, without judgement but with an honest accounting of the energy residing in them, placed there by me during the course of a lifetime.”

    This line feels quite exquisite. It is quite a gift to be able to observe something without judgement, it gives us the ability to see things as they truly are – the good, the bad, and the ugly – and our role in them. From this point. we are so much freer to make choices.

97. Holding onto what we are discerning through our hands is the key indicator of how our day is going, so easy to do Coleen and to simply observe it.

98. What an amazing confirmation for you to be able to feel the two very different types of energy in your hands and to deeply appreciate their delicacy whilst acknowledging all the impositions from the past that had caused them to harden up. As you appreciate your growing relationship with your hands they will reflect this to you and all other parts of your body and thus the relationship deepens and expands.

99. After reading this blog I have a deeper appreciation for my hands along with a deeper awareness of how I am moving them, I am just in the ‘doing’, or am I moving them with the stillness of my heart?

100. This blog definitely got me thinking, feeling and appreciating my dear old hands and what I have put them through over the years which basically flowed over into all my other body parts and how my entire body has been a workhorse for so long. It seems the more tender I am with myself the more my body is able to show me.

101. “I started to take moments to stop and to appreciate my hands at different points in my day when I moved them gently or massaged them, reminding myself that I wanted to move all of me, including my hands, delicately, from stillness” – how beautiful Coleen, you’ve inspired me to take note of the delicacy that is there in my fingertips… for the fine and gentle quality that’s in them is in everything else i go on to touch.

102. How powerful is the effect when we lovingly focus our attention on one area of our body, and the ripple effect is felt throughout our body – and even those around us notice too.

103. Appreciating here how much we can feel and enjoy this delicacy and sensitivity. Reading this I couldn’t help but feel this in my fingertips as I touch my mouse pad to scroll down the page; the coolness of the metal, the warmth in my fingertips, the lightness of touch and the tickle as the fingers move across the surface, the smooth and tiny movements. Stillness is very confirming of who we are.

104. ‘I started to feel a deep sense of appreciation for my hands and found myself contemplating how remarkably divine would be all that I touched and did with them, if I were to express in this energy.’ Love this Coleen.

105. I too have found esoteric yoga very supportive in bringing more awareness to the delicateness in parts of my body, more on my hands and feet. How I use my hands in my movements, with how I walk and what shoes I wear if they are supportive. Bringing this awareness to these areas has also supported me with my concious presence.

106. Delicacy is something I have never associated with myself but can see it is something that we all have as an innate quality. Our essence has this quality the universe is delicate and precise in everything and also strong and powerful, it is these juxtapositions that I feel we use to negate one from the other instead of seeing they are part of the whole.

107. “As am I absolutely worth being delicate with me, as the woman that I am.” Beautiful last sentence, it is this journey we all can go through, to develop an understanding that we are all worth being delicate and loving who we are no matter what.

108. To recognise the feeling and quality of the delicacy and carriage of love in our hands, opens up the awareness of how much opportunity there is to use our hands that supports self-care and delivery of self-love back to the body.

109. Touch life with stillness and love and it is magic that happens.

     1. Gorgeous Alex…..

110. To acknowledge what we have put or imposed on ourselves through life offers a real opportunity for change and for true healing.

111. Some years ago I read something that prompted me to appreciate how my hands serve me in each and every day which was a beautiful realisation. I am now being offered a new marker to take my relationship with my hands deeper and to feel the detail of what is being offered, and to understand that the quality of energy that passes through my body reflects the stillness or otherwise. It feels very healing to understand what is truly taking place and why there may be a hardness in my movements that affect everything I touch.

112. Legend I read this I feel this gasping need of not wanting to be separated from love, because of its amazingness. But then after considering your blog it really is quite simple to reconnect, we need only a small market such as the delicayeness in our hands, and we are in our way to restoring a whole loving Way of being.

113. It’s amazing how different parts of our body can give us different markers, like our hands can show us our delicateness and I find the feeling in my feet can show me how steady I am, and if they’re firmly on the ground and like ‘let’s go’ or if they don’t feel as steady and strong.

     1. Our bodies as maps and guides for how we are doing and what is called for next… the more we listen the more we see.

        1. Yeh I wonder if we knew that in us and in our body was the next step for us to take – would we pay much much closer attention to it’s constant subtle messages?

114. Re-reading this today I am reminded again of the delicacy of my fingertips as I type… such a simple way to re-connect with the beauty of who we are and not get lost in the tasks of the day.

115. Hands are a good indication of the hardness or not that we live with every day. How we put cream on, how we type on a keyboard, how we open a door. Even how our hands relax when we are sitting or standing still. The Mona Lisa is a good example.

116. Dancing today with friends I noticed how graceful my hand movements were and realised that it was because of that quality of stillness within that allowed this to be so. It is this quality that builds in us as we practise Esoteric Yoga.

117. Our hands DO so much, but taking a moment out to observe what they are feeling is really fascinating. We can learn a lot about how we are feeling in the body by observing how we feel in our hands, they are a great reflection. It is possible to feel a pulse from our hearts, across the shoulders, all the way down to our hands. Thank you Coleen for your expression helping me to focus on this.

118. A loving touch with our hand can convey so much more than words.

119. I can feel how much I take my hands for granted. I love nourishing them with a rich hand cream, but I am really appreciating the prompt that this blog has given me to check in with them through my day, and allow myself to feel the delicacy that starts in my hands, ripple throughout my whole body.

120. Our hands are are the physical extension of the radiant light and grace of God in our heart. In connection and activation every touch, every finger print leaves behind the magic of gods love. We have the power to bring the universe through a simple touch of a hand.

121. We may all have bodyparts that have hardened and when our awareness increases that suddenly becomes obvious. For men it may be the trapezius muscles as an example.

122. We can sense so much through our finger tips many of us do not place enough value on this and instead we often use our fingers and hands with out considering their delicate, sensitive nature. When I tap the key board with these qualities it vibrates through my whole body. Every part of the body affects the all.

     1. There are actually 2,500 nerve endings per cm squared in each fingertip, they are the areas with the most receptors in the whole body so it makes sense that we can feel so incredibly much through them and that our fingertips are one of the most delicate part of us.

123. Very cool blog, I was on the treadmill at the gym when I read it and I could feel my hands gripping the bar, holding on for dear life. What came up as a question was “what am I holding onto to” 
     As I loosened my grip and felt how amazing my hands felt, everything changed, I was gifted the same gift that you gave yourself in that yoga session, so thank you. 

124. When we bring awareness and delicateness to our hands, it allows us to stop and appreciate how that feels in the rest of the body. It is only when I started to bring focus to my hands and how I used them, was I able to make that connection with my body and how the whole body felt.

125. Why we want to hold hands, our own or another’s to give and receive love, our hands are a beautiful confirmation of love. Feeling the delicacy of our love, we just want to care for our hands in a most delicate way.

126. Our love pulses from our heart and emanates out but it also follows a physical pathway as it continues down through our arms and out through our hands so that if we do not restrict this flow, all we physically touch is imbued with this light – the light of the Christ that burns within us all.

     1. Yes, touching something with love is a beautiful experience and so is being touched with love.

127. We can read so much about another person from their hands, even our fingertips can relay much about us. Bringing our awareness and full focus to how we use our hands can change much about the way we communicate in general.

128. When we take the time to connect with our hands, they have a beautiful feeling of coming alive, of vibrating, and pulsing with an inner vibration.

129. Our hands are a reflection of how we express and interact in life as everything we put out comes back and is stored as an impress – in that sense we may not read the future in our palms but definitely the past and presence and the potential future as a projection of one´s former choices.

130. When we feel stillness, we feel God.

131. Our hands and fingers are the finest of indicators of what energy is running the body: harshness and hardness or presence and gentleness. And also, one side will vary from the other in what it feeds back to us.

     1. Thats a great way to look at it, a great indicator in what way we are choosing to use our hands and fingers, this being a reflection of the way we are living.

132. ‘contemplating how remarkably divine would be all that I touched and did with them, if I were to express in this energy.’ Wow, wouldn’t my life and all I touch be so much more tender and loving.

133. It is amazing how our body changes shape according to how we use it. When we retain our truly delicate nature our body retains its natural beauty and fineness.

134. Stillness is.
     Space.
     To be.

     1. Thanks for the pause Alex… beautiful!

135. A very beautiful sharing about the amazingness of our hands … “how delicate my hands felt and I had a sense of how much delicateness and stillness they were capable of holding…” Yes, they are capable of holding and communicating so much.

136. The delicate things in life, like the stillness in our hands, the warmth resonating in our body, feeling ourselves regenerate, appreciating, moving tenderly… hmm I love those delicate things.

137. Our hands “are absolutely worth appreciating and absolutely worth offering the energy of delicateness and stillness for their expression.” Beautiful Coleen. Becoming more aware of the delicacy of my hands and how they touch things brings a new awareness of gentleness and tenderness in my body.

138. It’s easy to think that there’s so much to do, that we need to work incredibly hard to feel well or live true. After all, the way we have been brought up and ‘educated’ is based on big exams and arduous tasks we must complete. But what if our body doesn’t work this way? What if all we need to do is connect deeply to our body and be open to truth? For in what you share Coleen I can sense there’s always a sacredness that is there if we just let ourselves choose to be and go there. It’s available right now, to us all in this moment, it’s just up to us, do we want to live with Love?

139. To pause to appreciate the delicate nature of my/our hands and the detail in the fingertips is beautiful to feel. Everything in life is touched by the quality that is flowing through them.

140. The body tells us so much if we are willing to listen. The dryness of my hands tells me something is not right, no amount of hand cream can resolve it, and so what else is going on… and there is the opportunity to learn and grow from the wisdom of the body.

     1. Heather so true, the feel of our skin, the condition of our skin is a a great indicator of whats going on inside our body. Dryness is just one indicator, there are so many others things. Connecting to our body is a great way to udnerstand what is going on with our body.

141. I know exactly what you mean Coleen, there is a different energy to be felt in our hands when we feel and discern it , and in our feet too as we walk. We can have that delicacy with all movement.

142. Touching something physical with your hands even while just standing around or listening to somebody is a good way to stay in touch with our body.

143. I have found it a revelation when my awareness increased and I suddenly saw something I didn’t before – each such instance can then lead to further awareness, a never ending virtuous cycle.

144. I believe the hands have more nerves running through them than most other parts of the body, so yes, of course they’re sensitive. But that doesn’t mean we treat them so as you explain in a very relatable way. Love what you say here and you’ve inspired me to check in with my hands more – no longer just blunt tools of the body, but a connected part of who I am.

145. Yes our hands deserve the best level of care we can give them, they are an extension of our hearts after all.

146. What a great discovery about how our hands bring you back to a marker and a focus to our innermost love.

147. When I am in a challenging situation I will often feel how my finger tips feel, connecting to this tenderness helps me to feel strong and stable.

148. When listening to and feeling our body as in an Esoteric Yoga session it is undeniable that what we do feel is the subtlest of variations. Being with our breath and then connecting to certain areas of our body we learn that being able to move in at-least-gentleness is a key to holding the connection to our whole body once the connection is established.

149. Taking a moment to consider each of our body parts and the fact there can be two feelings at the same time, the what is and the what is not. When we work from the what is we can observe what is not without judgement and without need for it to be different yet with an honesty that can re-imprint at any moment.

150. I have also felt how delicate my hands are in the last couple of years. I could relate to treating them harshly and without the care or delicacy they needed. Unfortunately, I had to learn this level of care the hard way, when my skin became very delicate and easily torn. I started bumping them and seemed to have sores and cuts all the time. Gradually I learnt to stop rushing and take more care of my precious hands.

151. We have so much more awareness of the energy we live in and with when we are connected to our bodies.

152. Feeling the delicacy in ones hands is so beautiful and supportive to feel that in our whole body and the appreciation and love of ourselves. It is life changing in the moment and every movement of our hands resonates in our whole body from here as it expands and opens up to the love we are naturally.

153. Quite often I overlook the magic that is in my hands and the amazing way they support and do so much for me, in my every waking moment. Thank you for reminding ourselves to appreciate what we take for granted Coleen.

154. Often in life I have been surprised in a lovely way when taking someone’s hand and feeling how gentle and delicate it is – such a divine connection.

     1. Yes me too. It is often a re-awakening moment that reminds me of the quality that is possible in relationships.

        1. Beautiful Matilda.

155. There is nothing lovelier than to connect to the stillness that can be felt on the inside… Esoteric Yoga is such a support for this.

156. I always love the part in an Esoteric Yoga session when you are asked to place your hands onto your leg and to feel your fingertips and how delicate they are. At times I can feel how beautifully sensitive and tender they are and there are times when i don’t feel this – a great marker to have and to know we can change the quality by connecting more deeply with our stillness.

157. A great observation Coleen , feeling the delicateness in ones hands is a great marker.

158. Connecting with our hands can be such a beautiful experience… A reference point of centering during the day, whilst driving, typing, conversing, there is so much to be felt in our hands.

159. I just had nail polish on for five days without it chipping this is miraculous! Normally on the first day it will look tatty. My level of care for me has been my focus for a month now and I can feel I am much more tender in my touch so it makes sense the nail polish stays on!

     1. Sounds to me like this may be day one for that focus for me! I get a bit nervous of using nail polish for just that reason but I am inspired by this blog and your comment to bring a new level of tenderness and appreciation to my hands and see what comes!

     2. Vanessa, great what you share, as nail polish is a great indicator how we hard or delicate we are with our hands. If we take care or our hands the polish would last a lot longer. So its a great way to bring awareness to our hands.

160. While reading this I too could appreciate my hands and how delicate they can be. As well I could think of the moments I take my hands for granted and can be rough with them. My hands are amazing and worth appreciating, thank you for the reminder.

161. to feel the delicacy in one’s hands is a celebration and beautiful honouring of the body, which feeds it back in full.

162. There is a delicacy to our hands, perhaps this is why it feels so sweet to hold hands with another.

163. It really is such a clear indication of how far we have chosen to walk away from truth, when you consider that for most people stillness is a remote and foreign concept, when all along it is sitting within each and every one of us.

     1. Alexis its so true, I have so my love to reconnect back to my stillness which has always been within me. Bringing awareness to my hands has been one of the great ways to return to stillness.

        1. That’s a valuable sharing Amita as it is the body and the breath that are the gateway to stillness. Unless we walk through the gateway then we shall remain forever outside the gate to the Kingdom of Heaven.

164. One of the best ways to change how we address or look after something entirely, is to focus on one smaller part of it and commit to looking after it consistently every day. This consistency, as the example you’ve shared with your hands, can keep expanding and inspire us to do it in many other areas too.

     1. This is my experience, too. When I focus on trying to address everything at once, I spin myself round in circles and inevitably end up addressing nothing. When I focus on just one thing, consistently, day after day after day, it sets a solid foundation that then naturally expands to include everything else, without me even trying.

165. Recently I have been appreciating how much more stillness there is in my life and how I have awesome tools to support me to reconnect to my inner stillness if I get pulled out during my day and one of those is consciously feeling my finger tips and focussing on the gentleness with which I carry out any movements with them. Such a contrast from my former hurried and self abusive ways.

166. My hands are very clear markers of how I have been with them and myself, when I am rushed or not present I can suddenly have a little cut and I don’t know how it happened. It is really great to see these messages of our body so we can notice why we are rushed and not present and come back to ourselves.

167. It makes you wonder what makes it possible for people to use their hands to punch or hit things when you realise how much sensitivity they hold.

168. That is the beauty of stillness – it shows starkly the areas or parts of our life that we have not or least been living in stillness and allows us to make corrections.

169. I loved reading this. I have been paying much more attention to my hands recently. One day I felt to go and buy some rings to wear, they are very delicate and I find that in wearing them I am much more aware of my hands and much more delicate with them. I notice that this small thing (wearing the rings) helps me to bring more presence to when I am doing things so I really enjoyed reading this blog as I could relate to the experience you share.

170. ‘I had used my hands as functional workhorses, there only to serve whatever my mind was deeming was the thing to do at any one time.’ – Wow, how true and very relatable this is, somehow we have learnt to see the different body parts just as function alone, hands, feet, hips, elbows or any bodypart, they are so much more than just function.

171. Stillness – the sound to listen and hear with utmost accuracy and loving understanding the truth of one’s body and being.

172. Having a hand I can not make the usual use of right now due to some pain stops me in my tracks of going on like before and reflect on how I do or handle things in life, how and how much I express or not. Since starting to listen to my hand my whole body has begun to reveal stories of months and years, chapter by chapter – a diary written through movement and posture.

173. And once felt, this stillness is a forever marker in our bodies for us to come back to and build on.

174. The energy with which we use our hands (a sign post for how we are running our bodies) marries very beautifully the physiology of them… with abundant nerve endings and fine motor skills our hands are amazing, miraculous tools and barometers – absolutely to be loved and taken care of.

     1. Well said Matilda – I know for me that how i sometimes treat my hands relates directly to me attacking my own sensitivity and is a great reflection for me to observe and learn from.

175. It is remarkable how reading an article written about stillness in such an energy can inspire someone like me in the middle of a busy stressful day, to return to a deeper sense of stillness within myself too.

     When we choose to take care of how we move and express through life, not only is it amazing in our own body. But also since it offers an invitation to others to do the same, it has a delightful impact on so many more lives at the same time.

     1. Yes, we can move into stillness at almost any time. It is a simple shift.

176. Reading this, I’m aware that I don’t really ever think about or notice how my hands feel.. the workhorse scenario is a very familiar one and sums up my relationship with my whole body and not just my hands. What I am starting to find though, the more I make a conscious effort to stay present with what I’m doing, is that the satisfaction that I once got from getting something done, no matter at what cost to my body, is no longer feeling worth it. The satisfaction of getting another thing ticked off the list is starting to no longer outweigh the effect of pushing through drive and numbness on my body.. the balance is starting to shift, and so are my priorities. Connection, first, task second.

177. Like the Hands Coleen, there are many parts of our body which communicate with us all day long, in fact our whole relationship with life is the energy we feel and the movements within our body – so how intrinsic is it then to know a true quality of stillness in the body – so it is loved, moved correctly and remains energised, to be a part of the whole.

178. It feels good to every now and then bring my focus to my hands and up to the fingertips and see how delicate they are.

179. I was serving a customer recently and they were carrying their super sweet young daughter at the time, who reached out ever so delicately to touch my hand with her fingertip – a simple gesture that was beautifully powerful at the same time with the quality in her touch.

180. I have become much more aware of my hands, whether they are tense when I’m doing things or my touch is light and delicate. This brings my awareness to how I am being with myself, my movements, and the world with the choices I have and can make.

181. If you have ever had someone wash your face for any reason, it is a very strange experience. When we wash our own face every morning, we feel the quality of our own hands as confirmation to ourselves how we are living.

182. I have been noticing for sometime that even when I apply moisturiser to my hands I do it in a hurried and harsh way and there are times when I do some of the washing up without rubber gloves on and burn my hand putting it under the tap when the water is too hot because I’m in too much of a hurry to let the cold run through. The refining continues as I become more aware of how sensitive my hands are and indeed I am.

183. A manicure is one my absolute favourite self-loving treats. Totally gorgeous – and, to me, an absolute no brainer – is there a part of our body that takes more wear and tear? I’m not sure there is, so it makes total sense to give them that love and attention…well, to me it does…and my hands agree.

184. I love how during Esoteric Yoga, the body presents the choice, not a judgment…which reveals how ‘judgment’ is a learned behaviour and not something we would instinctly do … “astonished by the matter-of-fact honesty offered by my body without recrimination or blame: just a sharing of truth and the offering of a choice …”

185. I have recently bought a delicate silver ring to wear and it now offers me a pause moment in my day, because I love to look at my hands and feel and appreciate just how fine and beautiful they are.

186. When I am typing delicately on my keyboard I know I am connected to my body, I love how this feels, it is a marker that I am present and very aware of my movements.

187. When we focus on a particular area of our bodies, for example our hands or our breath, how our hands feel, how our lungs move, the innate quality that is naturally there to be felt… we can bring so much presence and pure quality to all that we do.

188. It is surprising me in a most lovely way how much more aware I am of my fingertips and the delicacy of them, since I read your blog Coleen. They are one of my main markers now as to how I am living.

189. All it takes for me to connect to my delicateness is to feel my finger tips. It is quite remarkable.

     1. Me too, Nikki – delicateness is becoming a very familiar quality the more I bring attention to my fingertips.

190. The deeper we connect to stillness and establish it in our body the more everything not being of the same stillness sticks out to be seen for the disharmony it is.

191. It is so easy to take our hands for granted, and its not until we are not able to use them for whatever reason, that we realise how much we depend on them for pretty much everything we do. Coming to appreciate the beautiful tender and delicate qualites that we can communicate with our hands is something to deeply celebrate.

192. Our hands support us so so much. It is great to appreciate them.

193. Esoteric Yoga is an amazing thing to bring us into honesty with our bodies – something that can at times be very challenging, it is an opportunity to let go and be open to feeling our bodies and the way we use it.

194. I’m still working on the relationship. The good news is I’m aware of them so much more and treat them with more respect (rubber gloves, or latex gloves to protect in the kitchen and very occasionally some hand cream), but there are still patterns I drop back into and just go for it (in the garden usually) and come away with scratches and bruises. No perfection, but the awareness is the key.

195. ‘Functional workhorses’ is a good way to describe how I have also used my hands and other body parts in the past, with little to no regard or care for the impact on them. Then when my body ached and complained I reacted, feeling let down by the body not doing what I wanted it to do. What a way to treat anyone or anything! Now I am thankfully learning that the quality of my movements directly affects the level of joy and harmony I feel, which makes me more willingly responsible and aware with my every breath.

196. I find that when I bring delicateness to my hands there is then delicacy in the rest of my body.

     1. This is so true, when we connect to our qualities there is a ripple effect within the cells of the body and they all seem to respond to the choice we have made to connect to what we are feeling.

197. When we observe how a baby move their hands, they move with grace, purpose, absolute delicateness and beauty. This is what is natural to us. We can all connect to this way of moving throughout our life but most of us lose this connection as we get older. Our delicateness is always present, connecting to it or not is a choice we constantly make every day.

198. Esoteric Yoga has shown me how much wisdom the body carries, and I now have a way of connecting with it every day. I love the power in the simplicity of stillness. Thank you for writing about it in a way that is so inspiring and real.

199. Your blog was beautiful to read and feel Coleen, as I am typing my comment I am aware of the pace and pressure of my fingertips, and what a difference it makes to focus on every activity with this level of awareness. How it changes the way our whole body feels.

     1. Yes I agree. Bringing awareness to one area of our bodies, and the fingertips are a very powerful place to start, heightens our attention for our whole bodies – we simply get to feel and observe more about what is going on around us through the responses in our body.

200. It’s amazing how we can take part or all of our body for granted for so long and then realise just how amazing it is when we choose to connect back to it and redevelop that relationship with feeling.

201. We do so much with our hands all of the time, and how beautiful to honour them by being aware of them and treating them with care and adoration.

202. I was intrigued by your mention of holding weights in the gym with an intensity in the hands; and was playing with this yesterday in the gym. It was beautiful to feel how, even when lifting heavy weights and exercising my arm muscles, I was still able to keep my hands super gentle. This is so contrary to what you’d expect and what most of us do; most would have the whole body under strain. What this also shows us is how we can be delicate and strong, fragile and powerful…

203. When life is super intense then I find it really useful to just focus in on one part of my body; this feels like an achievable goal and then, from that, I can expand out.

     1. A come back to when we feel that life is racing ahead of us – loving this top tip.

204. Coleen, you describe so beautifully the power of Esoteric Yoga – a wonderful possibility to reconnect to the stillness in our body which is always naturally there to be felt.

205. The humbleness we feel in deepening the care with ourselves is an opening of the heart to accept more of who we truly are.

206. I can so relate to using my hands as purely functional to achieve whatever my mind directed – even to carrying sacks of driftwood at the age of 9 that were so heavy my fingers would be locked around the end of the sack when I put it down, and I would have to slowly open my fingers up again. I knew this wasn’t ok at the time but continued doing this for another 9 years. Now when I treat my hands and fingers gently and tenderly I can feel the hardness and push from all those years ago. Our bodies are so honest and don’t let us get away with anything!

207. This is a good example of what stillness exposes – the parts of our body that have been most in excessive motion and it then allows us to release that excess.

208. Beautiful blog Coleen. Babies have such delicate and delicious hands. I love being reminded that my hands can express this quality if I choose it.

     1. Yes I agree Leonne, beautifully said, babies have indeed delicious hands and feet. And even though, ones grown up, our hands will be bigger and maybe not as soft, the quality we move them in can be the same.

209. One of the many things that amazes me about Esoteric Yoga is how a 45 minute session of presence and stillness provides immense healing. It is as effective as having hands on healing or massage. This is one of the greatest tools we have been given to assist us to align to Truth.

210. When we have thoughts that are related to the activity that we are doing, these thoughts still keep us in separation from our bodies. The only thing that connects us to our body are the feelings that arise from within our bodies.

211. Thank you Coleen, sharing where our hands are made for – that is to move in the flow of God.

     1. Every part of our body can be used to express God’s love and Esoteric Yoga supports us to do exactly this. All our movements in stillness connects us to God.

     2. And to hold his love and express that love in every touch. I don’t live that by any means but when I sit with it now, I can absolutely feel it’s truth and the amazing support and purpose in living that. This is a brilliant and very practical and tangible (pun intended!) blog.

212. I love to watch Italians how they talk with their hands and I notice gesticulations can be very gentle and support a conversation or can also be expressive in a negative way. Feeling our own hands is a great marker to reflect to us how we are expressing ourselves at any given time.

213. I have experienced joy from connecting to the delicateness of my finger tips and Coleen, you’ve beautifully reminded me to do this more often as it supports me connect to the delicateness that is always there.

214. I loved this blog Coleen, I remember from my first yoga sessions feeling how tense I had been holding my shoulders, and it was a great feeling as I let go of the tension to feel how freeing it was, I am now very much more aware of my shoulders especially when I drop into tension, which effects every part of my body.

215. Beautiful blog, Coleen. I have been observing my hands recently, and have found that I am usually quite hard with them, not giving them the time they deserve. I notice this especially when drying my hands after doing some washing up. As I stand there drying my hands, I am already off in my head focusing on the next thing that needs doing. I stop myself, bring myself back in to the moment, and notice how rough I am being with my hands, as if they are a nuisance to take the time to dry. Even as I am being with myself as I dry my hands, I feel such resistance to be gentle with my hands, to treat them with the delicateness they are asking to be treated with. I have been feeling for a while now that there is a treasure trove held within my hands, that this resistance is the last stand to my embracing and embodying my own gentleness and delicateness in full. The fleeting moments in which I have been able to surrender to drying my hands in gentleness and delicateness have felt amazing, and a beauty-filled marker for me to expand upon.

216. What we can communicate through our hands when we are deeply connected to who we are is incredibly powerful. Everything can be felt in the holding of another when it is done from a true connection.

217. Reading this blog was like having a mini yoga session for me! A space in which to observe and deepen my relationship with my body, deepen my connection to stillness and what that feels in my body and then to move with that stillness expressing through my activity. Reading your description naturally got me to feel my hands and then it spread to other areas. It is remarkable that all it takes is an awareness that we can and a choice. Thank you.

218. I was doing something the other day that I knew was not true for me, but I overrode what I was feeling and got an injury. It was such a strong reflection for me of a deeper and more honouring relationship I still need to develop with my body. This blog is inspiring, so thank you Coleen.

219. Our hands are definitely a reflection of how we live life especially how we interact with everything that we do. As we are touched by life/people so do we touch life and impress it by the energy we express.

     1. Yes, and our fingers are a lot about detail.

220. It is amazing how just by bringing focus to this one part of the body, the hands, there is a ripple affect throughout the whole body and a change in the way movements are made.

     1. I have found this too; a ripple effect. If I treasure one part of the body I am then inspired (or should I say called) to treasure the rest. It’s a beautiful gateway into the whole.

221. I have to hand it to you Coleen, that was a gorgeous read. Pun aside, I mean what I say and have felt similar myself – there is so much we can feel and express with and through our hands. Our hands are the instruments of our will, connected to and reflecting our hearts. Let’s align them, and our will, to the divine and express from there.

222. I have certainly become more deeply aware of my hands typing emails, comments and articles every since reading your blog Coleen.

223. The hand are after all an extension of our hearts.

     1. This is very interesting Henrietta, because this means how we use our hands is a indication of how use our heart, i.e. is it with delicateness or hardness?

224. A beautiful reflective detail Coleen, thank you. Our body receives, lives and then shapes itself on everything we do.

225. The deep connection we can feel with our bodies….every part of them is a true joy.

226. Amazing what we take for granted every minute of the day. I would never have brought such attention to an area of my body without someone else alerting me to the fact that we do in fact have other parts of ourselves in addition to our heads.

227. Esoteric yoga is so amazing in the reflections that it offers us and thank you so much for sharing your experience with your hands. I have been so hard on my hands for so many years and it feels lovely to be typing this comment in a gentle way which is in complete contrast to how I typed until very recently and that is only one of the ways that I regularly abused my hands. Feeling inspired to take time to appreciate my hands and how much they support me every day.

228. Delicate was once a word that was quite foreign to me. But once I connected to my fingertips, I knew delicateness.

     1. Agree. And as an adjective delicate is frequently interpreted to mean weak; I often hear of little girls being described as ‘delicate’ in a derogatory manner. Crazy that our most precious of qualities has been demeaned in such a way.

        1. Once upon a time I thought delicate meant weak, but knowing the quality now of delicateness, I love the word and think it is a glorious thing to be described as. To me it shows that our disconnection from our delicateness allows for us to use the word in a derogatory way.

        2. As a man, perhaps it is even more unusual to be embracing the word “delicate”? But I am; I love it, I don’t embrace it nearly enough…but I’m learning.

229. I have been aware of my hands for some time. One of my favourite things is observing how others move their hands as they speak. Especially Natalie and Serge Benhayon. There is such a tenderness in delicateness in the communication of their hands. I can see that this is simply an extension of how they are living, that is its not just there hands that show this, but its reflected in the way their whole body moves. Since observing this I have been observing my own and my hands are a real marker in how I am being with myself. I use my hands constantly through out the day, so its easy to check in with with hands on a regular basis. Our hands are also how we interact with people and the world around us.

230. A beautiful account of how esoteric yoga brings an unprecedented depth of awareness and healing in our relationship with our bodies. And as I’m typing this, my fingertips hurt – more awareness, more tenderness being called for! Thank you Coleen.

231. Its incredible how we walk, move and live in our bodies every day, but pay so little real attention to them, carrying on unaware of how we feel in our physical body. Esoteric Yoga offers an opportunity to change all that, and through that every aspect of life is forever changed.

232. After reading this blog, I became far more aware of my hands and my touch. It felt exquisite and super playful touching things knowing the quality I was leaving behind. I felt my delicacy in my touch and noticed how harsh I had been with my hands in the past. Later that day, I got caught up in doing and was paying less attention to my hands and I got a sharp pain in my left hand when I tried to pick something up in a harsh way, reminding me instantly to get back to the quality of my touch.

     1. Very interesting Fiona. Me too I became more detailed in how I use my hands and it’s been a really fun and playful experience.

233. Coleen, this blog is really insightful. The part where you mention ‘I was astonished by the matter-of-fact honesty offered by my body without recrimination or blame: just a sharing of truth and the offering of a choice’ is incredible. I had not considered it before, how our bodies are so cool, our buddies and best friends. They share the truth with no blame, no judgement, nothing… and the offering of the choice, giving us some space – they are always on our side, even that at times we may not see it clearly. The body is amazing.

234. Esoteric Yoga is revealing a lot about the body. It is a great sharing Coleen how sensitivity experienced through yoga sessions can reveal how we are using our body through the day.

235. The body is an acutely sensitive vehicle, constantly feeling and sensing energies in and around us. I once believed that sensitivity was a weakness and hated being told I was sensitive. Today, I feel very different about is, relishing the awareness that our senses bring – especially the clairsentience – something I believe is common to us all.

236. The movements we make with our fingers and hands are another way we can share the warmth and openness of our heart.

237. I find that if I pay attention to one particular part of my body it automatically ignites a whole body connection, one of the amazing and very natural ripple effects of conscious presence.

238. Our hands are precious as is every other aspect of our body for what would we do without them?. It is amazing to take the time and focus on our hands and be aware of how we are with them and how we move them and the imprint we leave behind with everything we touch. Thank you Coleen for this very important blog.

239. Delicateness is exquisite when we allow ourselves to truly feel it and honour it.

240. It is beautiful to feel that we have a heart chakra in the centre of each hand – these precious hands that dress us, type, hug people, feed us, drive the car, wash our clothes, put face cream on. What on earth would we do without them and how wonderful to bring true quality through them.

     1. Beautiful appreciation Lyndy, such love can flow through our hands.

241. Thank you Coleen, I have recently felt how rigid, hard and painful my index fingers can be because of how often I use my iPad and tap, swipe and type in a rough way. They have been alerting me to an energy that doesn’t belong in the way I’m moving and treating my body, yet I also allowed thoughts that “it didn’t matter” to come in, effectively lowering my value and allowing it to continue. I have since been working on remembering to be tender and use my iPad in a delicate way, this is supporting my fingers which already feel damaged by their rough treatment. Thank you also for the reminder that our fingers are just part of the story of an energy we have in our entire body, and our entire body is affected by whatever quality we choose to align to.

     1. Melinda, the ‘it didn’t matter’ or the ‘this will do’ are so insidious – I have been noticing when I behave like that. It is such an arrogance that in our mind we can ‘think’ that way but our body will show us that it does not work that way, it experinces every thing we do.

242. Thank you Coleen, I particularly like this sentence ‘I was astonished by the matter-of-fact honesty offered by my body without recrimination or blame: just a sharing of truth and the offering of a choice – ‘ I appreciate so much how the truth is always offered by our body without blame or recrimination and Esoteric Yoga is such a great support to hear what our body is telling us through a deeper connection with ourselves.

243. Gorgeous Coleen, I love that picking one thing to look after to the finite detail – your hands – kickstarted a bigger picture change in how you live!

244. The way we use our hands will show in our hands later on in life, and I must confess I used to be very rough with things like digging the garden, or washing dishes and using cleaning products without gloves. All of these things take their toll on the skin and energetically you can feel how someone uses their hands.

245. Thank you, Coleen. It is very worthwhile to consider the way we use our hands, as a reflection of how we are treating ourselves and the quality of our movements. For me, it is still a matter of making sure that I don’t hurt my hands, for example, by carrying a cup of tea that is too hot, or washing the dishes without gloves on.

246. A beautiful sharing Coleen and one that brings attention to a part of our body so often taken for granted and neglected,. Our hands are central to almost every movement we make. I once paid close attention my hands as I opened doors, turned keys, walked up and downstairs, washed my face.To lose this level of connection with our hands is an indicator we’ve disconnected from our whole body…

247. Appreciating just how delicate we all are, both men and women, brings a fundamental healing and a deep understanding that pushing our bodies beyond their capabilities serves no one, as the damage we do will always catch up with us.

248. Bringing awareness and deep stillness to our hands, infuses the same quality in everything we do.

249. Your blog Coleen, reminds me to hold door handles with more gentleness. I find most of the time I grip the handle too hard without realising because I am running with my thoughts instead of connecting to my body. Opening and closing the door can be done with hardness which hurts our body or with gentleness which is healing.

250. One of the things I like to do is paint my nails. I make sure I sit still and don’t do much for at least an hour afterwards so that they dry properly. Then I am very aware of how I use my hands so as not to make the varnish chip. It’s a great reminder to treat my hand and the things I touch gently.

     1. I find I appreciate my hands so much more when my nails are painted. They make my hands stand out and I am reminded to appreciate the elegant and delicate way they move.

251. Your blog shows just how incredibly supportive and healing the Esoteric Yoga Stillness Program for Women is. To have a modality that brings and deepens stillness to the body allowing it to reveal such profound awareness is medicinal, in the way it initiates true changes in the quality of living.

252. As a Gardener I had little or no regard for my hands and generally had healing wounds on each digit, but since connecting with my body and being more gentle and tender with myself I look at my hands now and they are wound free. I now wear leather gloves when I work which has also been a very loving change.

     1. Kev, this is so awesome and very inspiring.

     2. Amazing Kevin, an important reflection for men (and indeed women) to be tender and loving with themselves and how this in turn impacts the entire body and how we value ourselves all together.

     3. I love this Kev. And I often do the same. In fact, even the act of taking that extra beat to go and get my gloves changes the whole way in which I approach whatever the work is that I am doing. So even though I was just looking after my hands, it turns into a whole-body-care choice.

        1. Yes Otto, it is the ancient Platonic observation about’ the whole and the part’ – but what I love is that this ‘law’ operates everywhere, and is universal, even applying to gardening gloves!

        2. Thank you for this Lyndy. This morning I see the other side of that observation too. Which is that if there is any part that isn’t an expression of truth, then it will affect the whole.

253. Connection with one part of our body brings the whole body to connection. Its a sure indicator that we can’t live in parts, but naturally get pulled together to live as one – in our own physical body and as a humanity.

     1. Beautifully said Johanne… its true… “we can’t live in parts, but naturally get pulled together to live as one – in our own physical body and as a humanity.”

254. What a beautiful reflection of our hands and all our body shows us which is so inspiring to feel and to appreciate our delicateness and sensitivity through our hands as a marker with our finger tips and our touch. The gentleness is so easily felt and resonates through my whole body and the appreciation of my hands and the gift they offer is very special . “As am I absolutely worth being delicate with me, as the woman that I am. “

255. Awesome article, Coleen, about appreciating our hands and how they can reconnect us to our delicateness and stillness. Your insightful blog encourages us to reflect on the energy we choose when we use our hands and what opportunities they offer us to feel the loveliness of who we truly are; being more aware of how we can engage with the outside world as we did as babies with tender, sensitive and delicate hands.

256. Since reading this the first time I have been aware of my hands and fingers bit time. Usually I would punch the keys on the photocopy with my fingers until it registered and did what I needed it to do… today I felt how awful that felt in my fingers and how much the tip of my fingers actually hurt. I then pressed super lightly, and surprise the photocopier registered just the same as if I was pushing hard. When given a moment to listen our body has much to share.

257. A beautiful example of the power in Esoteric Yoga to re-connect with a level of awareness and a quality of movement that is reflective of the multi-dimensional beings we are, and not of the functional ‘just get-the-job-done’ human being we can so often run ourselves as.

258. Esoteric yoga a gorgeous way to re-connect to the stillness within our body and appreciate how delicate and sensitive it is and that there is another way to move throughout our day without going into that hardness that we choose to get things done.

259. ‘The beauty of stillness in my hands.’ The beauty of stillness.

260. “I could choose to have the same hands I had had as a baby – delicate, sensitive and tenderly aware of how my touch engages with the outside world” – seeing how soft and gentle a baby’s hands are…and how they hold nothing but the tenderness of their own love, is adorably, undeniably felt and so cute too.

261. Being aware of touching everything gently all day is a lovely way to maintain conscious presence

262. Gorgeous blog, thank you Coleen so much love can be expressed through our hands which connect us to the physicality and energetics of life, I am reminded to bring tenderness and appreciation for what my hands have to offer.

263. The delicateness you speak to here Coleen, I can feel right now as I type this. What is very supportive to read here today is that stillness offers us a space to observe without judgement how our bodies are and the energy they carry and how in that observation we have a choice, to be delicate and lovely with it, and to accept in that how we’ve been and know that we can be and are deserving of being delicate of us.

264. Thanks to this blog I read yesterday morning, I become aware of my hands a few times yesterday morning.

     One time was on a crowded bus and I realised how strongly I was gripping the bus handle to hold on, I remembered your blog, and lessened my grip and felt the delicateness return to my hands.

     This tells me of the power of expression (yours) and the power of committing to reading people’s sharing of how they are living more and more in connection to their bodies (mine – and others!) – and how that combination can support us in our daily lives.

265. Great point Doug, indeed we use our hands for almost everything we do in our day. And how they can reflect so much to us.

266. After a recent Esoteric Yoga Session where I had surrendered deeply to the stillness within, it was quite a shock to feel how hard the steering wheel of the car felt under the delicateness and lightness in my fingers, hands and arms, I may be looking out for a suitable soft cover for the steering wheel in response to what serves my body..

267. There is a real beauty in being able to feel what is being communicated to us when we stop and feel.

268. Thank you Coleen for an inspiring sharing of the honouring of our hands – the importance of them as an inter-face with the world.

269. The first time I felt the delicateness in my hands and fingers I wept. I had always thought of myself as a physically strong and robust woman so to surrender to the delicateness within was to break open the hard shell of belief I had placed around myself and connect to the exquisiteness and vulnerability of my natural qualities that is hidden from myself for so long.

270. Our fingers, especially our fingertips, are one of the clearest indicators of how we are treating our body, a fact of which we are reminded very quickly when we damage them in some way. Even the tiniest paper cut can cause immense discomfort and pain. And then if we lose the use of a whole finger or hand we soon realise how we have taken these amazing, and essential, parts of our body for granted. How self-honouring it is then to make the choice to bring more attention to these wonderful appendages before something untoward happens to them; loving prevention is way more beneficial that a painful cure.

271. I took the time to lie down yesterday afternoon, and I could feel a beautiful stillness throughout my whole body and straight away my mind wanted to get busy, to move, to break the beautiful space I had just created for myself. It is not often that I stop, but when I do, and this is something I am learning and practising, it is quite interesting how my mind try’s to fight it.

272. Beautiful appreciation of the hands and how being aware of the energy can alter our relationship with them and every other part of our body. The way my hands feel, look, touch etc has deeply changed since I have been more willing to be aware of what energy I use.

273. Hands being a true indicator of what energy is running the body is something so true. And perhaps the reason I don’t always want to connect with them as often they feel heavy. But what’s lovely is there is a great delicateness I can connect to with them and actually, given how indelicate I can be, it’s never so far away.

274. Our hands are also the most frequent physical connection with the rest of the world and the rest of humanity – our connection to the physical. Essential then that we nurture them as the conduit of the divinity that we all are.

275. A pause in the day to put on the hand cream that I carry in my bag is one of my supportive ‘stop and re-connect’ rhythms.

276. Where the heck would we be without our hands? And yet we take them for granted, Well let me say I did. But I am much more aware of them now and treat them with a great deal of respect, which they deserve. I especially like the French hand cream that smells of roses. I have a pair of gloves in every jacket and coat. But I can feel from reading this blog that there is much more to explore so thanks there’s lots more to explore.

277. ,All of this I felt as I observed my hands from stillness, without judgement but with an honest accounting of the energy residing in them, placed there by me during the course of a lifetime.’ What a beautiful realisation to have got to! As I am typing I am connecting to the delicacy in my own hands and fingers. How lovely and exquisite they feel! Thank you Coleen for sharing your experience.

278. I love hands and they are indeed amazingly delicate and can do a lot of things. I for myself love using them tenderly knowing that all that I touch is being blessed by the tenderness my hands are. Life lived with this understanding can be unbelievably beautiful.

279. Stillness is innate to our body, as soon as we choose to re-connect and move in this quality we are instantly in stillness.

280. As I start to be aware of how much my body and hands feel since I started using Esoteric Yoga, in all honesty, I say ouch at the smallest thing where as before I would not feel a thing. This is because of as you state Coleen, “the quality of energy I used them in as I went about my daily activity.”

281. So delicately observed Coleen, I very much was there with you in your discoveries and revelations.

282. Thanks Coleen – a great reminder to be aware of the quality we hold our hands in and honestly look at whether or not we use them to push through with hardness in our day to day living or are we choosing to be truly gentle in every touch.

283. In stillness all is known. The body always responds with the truth, it has nothing to hide but the mind can hide, manipulate and distort truth. Thanks Coleen.

284. Inspired by your sharing this morning I painted my nails and took great care in doing so it’s a lovely reminder everytime I see my nails to be the beautiful fragile self.

285. When holding someone’s hand, we get a feeling of how they live. So you bring our attention here Coleen to feel how we live through our own hands.

286. It’s challenging to be anything but delicate when we focus on our hands, how they move and the detail of our fingertips as the touch.

287. The body stores much more than we may think.

288. The way you describe this Coleen puts me in mind of a classic masterpiece of art – a painting where the hands seem so precious and as if they glow. We like to look at these exquisite renderings, but we have, it seems quite forgotten that we have this literally in our own hands. Why don’t we access this quality then? Well I think you made it quite clear why – it’s because we need to feel the pain and discomfort that we’ve caused from the way we have lived in a drive. It’s difficult for sure but what price the pain that comes from continuing to push on blindly? What’s for sure is when we connect to our stillness we can’t ignore our body is an amazing work of art.

289. When I connect to the delicateness of my finger tips, this supports me to connect to stillness. Coleen, your gorgeous blog reminds me to connect to this more and more.

290. Lovely Coleen. Reading this took me straight into my stillness.

291. The quality of our hands reflects an enormous amount about how we are with ourselves and with the day and what we do. You can feel the hardness and toughness in the hands when they have been used and pushed with little honour or connection. You can equally feel the depth of delicatness and precision interwoven with a commitment to bringing that to life when we have been living with connection and honour of the majesty of our being.

292. Our hands are beautiful and sensitive things – just like the rest of our bodies. Worthy of appreciation and celebration. Thank you Coleen.

     1. I agree Richard. Our hands and our entire body is always worth appreciating. I noticed recently how much more attention I pay to my hands when I have taken the time and care to apply nail polish and I move my hands in a gentler way. I find the more care and love I apply to my body, the more likely I am to move in a gentle and loving way.

        1. I have started to take much better care of my nails…having been a nail biter for much of my life. This is a conscious choice to be more appreciative of my hands and to engage with my body as a whole. I am finding this a supportive way of choosing to be more loving with myself.

293. I find the feeling in my hands an amazing marker of how I am and how my day is going, they can feel super strong or super light and delicate or sometimes I’m not aware of them at all – either way they are a great indicator of the quality of how my day is running.

     1. I agree – and it makes me wonder what our hands are doing when we’re not aware of them…

     2. I feel this too Meg, another big indicator of how I am with myself is how my fingertips touch my face when applying cream or how I touch the keys on the keyboard or how I hold hands with another. So many opportunities to be aware and check in with ourselves.

        1. Yeh I love this Aimee, I’ll do a fingertips experiment today – how delicate and tender can my fingertips feel even as I’m working really hard?

294. And this same quality/feeling as you have within your hands is in every cell of the body .. every cell of our bodies, so.. how far away are we from this and how harshly are we currently living? Your blog felt esquite to read .. a healing for everyone’s hands ✨

295. Coleen what a beautiful reminder of the delicateness we all are and your article bought more awareness to my hands, to feel the quality in them and the tenderness and then what is the quality of the energy that I use my hands with, its remarkable how it can be to get through, to complete instead of simply in the stillness and quality that I am. My hands will now certainly become a marker of how I am moving and expressing.

296. Thank you, Coleen. What a beautiful ode of delicateness and how powerful it is to connect to this innate quality through the gentle touch and movements of our hands.

297. It wasn’t until I injured a finger on one of my hands to the extent where I couldn’t use it at all for several weeks, that I appreciated how precious my hands were and how much I relied on them for pretty much everything that I did. We simply cannot take any part of our body for granted, as every part is connected to every other part and therfore has to be appreciated in its fullness in order for us to be able to feel the exquisite qualities that are there to be brought forth.

     1. So true Sandra. We cannot care and tend to one area of our body e.g. our face whilst disregarding another part, and then wonder why we get sick or hurt ourselves. Every part is equally important. If I’m compartmentalising my body then it’s a great reflection to me showing how I also compartmentalise life. There can be no flow without unity.

298. On a recent kayak trip I sustained a friction burn on the web between my thumb and index finger. It was not particularly sore at the time but I remember feeling a deep sadness when I saw it. In that moment I realised that I had caused it through my own drive and it took the injury to make me stop and address what quality I had been choosing to move in.

299. How gorgeous to connect to your hands in this way, and feel all the history but also feel the possibility of a different way.

300. Thank you Coleen, your blog allowed me to stop and feel the tenderness and delicateness of my hands and appreciate how sensitive they are. It is lovely to read your appreciation, and remind us all that they are an indicator of the energy we are running with. By stopping and feeling whether there is a lightness of touch or the hardness of the drive or push; both are great markers of how we are with the rest of our body and how we are running our day.

301. Coleen, I love the awareness you came to during your Esoteric Yoga program, it is incredible what the body reveals when we listen and observe.

302. I have recently been been more aware of my hands and the way I treat them, I had been feeling a disconnection and lack of appreciation. It was only when a friend had said to me that they had been taking great care of their hands that I felt inspired to do the same, moisturising them more frequently and massaging an oil into the cuticles as the skin was feeling dry with the change of seasons. I also started to appreciate them more by creating moments observing how I am using them, gently and with full presence or distracted by what I need to do. Today I’m going to start building more stop moments to appreciate their delicacy and touch which feels lovely already as can feel the way I’m using them has changed whilst I’m typing this comment.

303. A beautiful blog Coleen, thank you. We may think we are a million miles away from who we are but it was during an Esoteric Yoga Stillness for Women session some time ago that made me realise that simply with choice I could come back to me in a short space of time. I was amazed as I allowed myself to surrender. What occurred to me was that it is my willingness to be honest as to where I am at and what is truly important to me… the quality of stillness or function in each moment and to this day as I become more aware of the resistance to deepen my connection to the stillness which is always there patiently waiting I am asking myself do I want to live in connection to my essence and to God or do I want to align to something else?… the choice belongs to me.

304. Our bodies have no choice but to be absolutely honest with us, as they are directly affected by how we choose to live life. Making space to connect to the stillness inside us gives us huge grace to feel exactly how and what our choices are doing and hence a real opportunity to live in accordance with this powerful quality rather than ploughing on against it.

     1. Our bodies are as malleable as plasticine. Every choice that we make, makes an indentation in the plasticine and the moulded shape that we end up with is the one that we have modelled ourself.

305. There is a guy I work with, that I continually ask him if he needs a new keyboard yet? He types with two fingers and pounds every key. Most of my life my hands were well calloused and hard from the work they did. I have reconnected to my hands over the past few years, from esoteric yoga to the amazing things I can feel with my fingertips and how just gently rubbing my thumbs over my other fingertips in gentle circles, reconnects me to myself.

     1. I have sat on trains amongst commuters working on their laptops and often considered this. If there was a way to measure the combination of the kinetic and sound energy created by the millions of movements and noises that people make with their very forceful punching of their keyboards….whilst it’s not going to solve the world energy crisis, it would be fascinating to consider….no wonder they all need coffee and pastries!

     2. This is gorgeous Steve, that you are able to reconnect to yourself with these small movements at the tips of your fingers. How lovely would that be, to encourage our work colleagues to do this little exercise before starting work each day? It could change a whole lot about the way we communicate with each other, particualrly via the keyboard.

306. Thank you for the reminder that we can choose for our hands to be delicate and feel the effects of those choices throughout our body, no different than when we walk with a hard or gentle step.

307. Our eyes and then our hands are often the first part of us to connect to anyone or anything and when we choose and appreciate the tenderness in the way we see to be shared with how we touch the precious tenderness of our inner stillness is felt throughout the body.

308. Our hands certainly are unsung heroes, and if I’m honest most of my life mine have been a taken for granted tool, but even after the abuse they have taken they are still very much capable of the delicateness and tenderness shown as a baby.

309. Practising Esoteric Yoga can so easily connect us with that stillness inside and then it is up to us to bring that into our daily lives as you have done Coleen. Bringing awareness to the hands is especially lovely as they tend to be what we use all the time in engaging with the world and show us how we handle things or people. I find that bringing this same focus to my eyes and the area around the eyes also very supportive as I can let tension build up around and in them also. I used to be much kinder to my eyes and put the palms of my hands over them several times a day. Thank you for the reminder to continue to connect to this inner stillness and take greater care of myself.

310. The beauty of the stillness in my hands, a beautiful title and so profound in the message it carries as the stillness felt is our connection with the Universe, with the All and with God. So feeling God in your hands is a precious feeling, not only for feeling it but also with how we with our touch share the divine in everything we do and with everybody we meet..

311. We take our hands so much for granted, unless we have hurt them in some way. Staying present and using a gentle touch takes no more effort than using our hands in a mindless fashion. I so agree, ‘they are absolutely worth appreciating.’

312. Beautiful post Coleen. ‘Esoteric Yoga brings not only a reconnection to inner Stillness but also a deep awareness of Stillness being a state of being that is actually innate to our bodies.’ I so agree. We all have a connection to an inner Stillness, despite the thought that it may be a far away feeling. Stopping all the busyness for a moment allows me to connect with this.

313. A beautiful homage to the delicateness of our hands Coleen but even more so to the quality of energy we are capable of doing what we do with them in. I particularly love your last line “As am I absolutely worth being delicate with me, as the woman that I am.”

314. Its amazing what we feel when we stop and observe. Within our hands is a lifetime of activity, and it is their to be felt. The fingers are I reckon a bit of a gateway to our body, but I suppose most areas of our body can be this, the more we feel the senses that are being released the more aware we are of how we can take care of our bodies in the most appreciative ways, considering more how we feel and moving with care for our wellbeing.

315. Wow, after reading Coleen’s great description of all she felt from her Esoteric Yoga session, I can really see now just how much I have abused not only my hands, but many other body parts as well via work and play, so this has been a bit of a wake up call for me to really pay attention to how I move my body. This blog has inspired me to pick a different body part each day as a practice to focus on and provide more love for that area of my body. Obviously this provides a greater awareness on multiple levels, as Coleen has shown here.

316. It is so valuable to have these pause moments where we can bring our focus to one specific area in our body and feel the magnitude of what is happening in there that we otherwise would just brush over as we ‘get on’ with life. This is the space that Esoteric Yoga offers to us and I love where you have gone with this Coleen. Our hands are an extension of our heart in the sense that it is how we are physically connecting to and feeling the world and whether this is coming for a place of connection or from a place of protection. This is why we can feel in the very detail of our fingertips, the tenderness or lack of, we express to the world from the depth of our heart – the love that we are.

317. Great to bring awareness to our hands Coleen! The life they have lived at the mercy of our ‘drive’ to be anything but who we innately are is an abuse that can only be countered by accepting that we are already ‘that’ and all that is needed is connection.

318. Thank you, Coleen, this is beautiful and such a simple thing to do in moments during our day. I always put cream on my hands at night, sometimes as a tender ritual, sometimes because they feel dry. I could take more notice of the dryness because it is an indication that I have been rough with them during the day. The state of my nails is also an indication: if they are dirty, chipped, flaky if I’ve not used gloves for gardening or washing up. What I have noticed though, is the way I apply the hand cream – sometimes it’s very business-like, making sure the cream is all absorbed before I touch anything, but the best way is when I am tenderly applying lavish amounts of cream, no rush, just lovingly. My whole body goes tender when I do that.

319. Thank you, Coleen. I love how you have so beautifully, and in details, described your experience of connection – it allowed me to connect deeply and feel my body while reading your words.

320. Touching another in the energy of stillness calls them back to their own endless reservoir of stillness.

321. Coleen this sharing is sublime, truly so.

322. Beautiful blog Coleen. Two subjects – esoteric yoga and hands – which are very dear to my heart. Through practising esoteric yoga I have become much more aware of my hands and since then I have really noticed how people working at the check-out centre at supermarkets punch in the figures and info into the register screen with immense force – all through one little fingertip – I can see a whole future generation of people with damaged fingertips. Even as I type about this subject my fingers are feeling even more delicate and sensitive. You are so right Coleen – we could have the hands and fingers of a baby!

323. Inspiring Coleen, we can so often just see or observe our hands, fingers, fingernails, though not really feel the energy of them through all the daily things we put them through!

324. We use our hands all the time – apart from when we are sleeping, I’m finding it hard to think of a time when I am not using my hands at all. Even when I am sitting quietly, I use my hands to move my hair out of my eyes, or gently touch an area on my body that may feel tender. Our hands are our main contact with other people, from shaking of the hands, through to a gentle caress – yet I can feel how little I have truly appreciated them, no wonder the esoteric hand massage always feels so divine 🙂

325. All of me loved reading you blog this morning, Coleen, especially my hands. ‘I started to feel a deep sense of appreciation for my hands and found myself contemplating how remarkably divine would be all that I touched and did with them, if I were to express in this energy.’ – this really gave me pause to consider the enormity of what you are sharing. It is absolutely possible for this to be so, however, I too realised how much push and drive my hands endure. I am enjoying appreciating my hands on a whole new level.

326. There is an extraordinary level of delicateness in our hands and fingers and especially the fingertips which we all too often ignore in favour of pushing through and getting things done.

327. Beautiful Coleen, as I read your blog, I could get a sense of how much I have abused my hands, as a horse rider, as a sailor, and I can appreciate now how I look after my hands more and more as they are the tool of my trade as a practitioner of the Esoteric healing modalities and as a massage therapist.

328. Working with the physical body is amazing, but very importantly is to clock the quality that we can bring to the way that we move and work and play. As Coleen has mentioned in her blog, we have all been babies and have all had that same delicate way of being, so this is in fact not a new way for us to be. But what is perhaps new is to bring more of this quality back into our everyday as adults, and not save it for special occasions or when holding a baby or picking a rose – it is about bringing this in to washing the dishes and brushing our hair…the options are endless and so too are the feedback effects back into our body.

329. What a great marker our hands can be of the energy running through us. As I write this I can feel the detail and delicateness in the finger tips that can be chosen when my fingers touch the keyboard, when I pick something up or when I do my hair. It is a very lovely confirmation to feel the quality of how we move and how it affects the quality of everything that flows from that connection

330. Our hands, out feet, in fact our whole body, does so much for us, it is certainly time we stopped to appreciate this in itself. I like to see my body a bit like a company that I am the CEO of, a company I run that has multiple organs and systems working for me and working consistently each and every day never really taking a break (you would hope your heart never takes leave or goes on holiday! Nor your lungs for that matter!…). When you look at it like this, you would never want to treat the organs/employees poorly – you would only ever support them, listen to them and then call orders only ever with the best intention for all. Being CEO is not about getting it perfect – but it is about learning to listen to your employees and organs, and learning from what does not work, and enjoying the harmony in the team that comes from decision that do work for all. And so with this view, we work the company, our body, differently, we work collaboratively and we are less likely to drive the body, push the body and then criticise it for not performing. We are more likely to appreciate deeply each employee for what they bring and support them back in their work. So what is your relationship with your body and the employees – what kind of a CEO are you (one you would like to work for?)?

331. Interesting timing to read this – I had to use a keyboard to type a very short email. While I use this keyboard often, rarely do I use the letters keys it’s mostly the numerical ones. What I realised is how much pressure I had to place on the keys to write. It occurred to me how gently I usually use the keys on my own computer and the difference between was a surprise very worth appreciating.

332. ‘I was astonished by the matter-of-fact honesty offered by my body without recrimination or blame:… ‘
     This so inspires me to observe this in my own connection with my body. What a wise and loving body we live in that can teach us how to be with ourselves and each other and appreciate the love that surrounds us.

333. As I was reading your article Coleen I was feeling the warmth and beauty in my hands too. Bringing this awareness and focus to any part of the body allows us to feel how we have been living and honouring ourselves or not. Esoteric Yoga truly supports this deeper connection with our body and being. Beautiful blog, thank you Coleen.

334. An exquisite invitation to deepen my awareness with my hands every moment. They truly are a great indicator of connection to our bodies and the task before us.

335. The techniques that Serge Benhayon has brought through for us all are absolutely heavens magic on earth.

336. And what a great application and practicality offered by the Esoteric Yoga modality in what you described of taking into your day and activities what you have experienced in the session. Powerful.

337. Coleen, what a delicious blog to read. I can relate to the power of the delicateness in our hands and what we touch, being it ourselves, another person, objects. I love using my hands for very delicate activities.

338. Our hands can do so much. Reading your blog has made me reflect and marvel at all they have the capacity to do. I am looking at my hands now as they type these words with a lot of appreciation.

339. My fingers are tying more delicately as a result from reading your blog today and also tapping into my experiences of previous Esoteric Yoga sessions. Thank you.

340. Before I started to read your blog I felt how dry the skin of my hands were and thought about not having any cream in my office but not willing to get it, a bit tired and I had to go downstairs. While reading your blog I became even more aware of my hands and fingers, also now when I type these words. I love my hands but true I have used them as workhorses just as I did with my whole body and your blog shines some light on what is on offer by honouring the delicacy of my hands. Let’s get the cream from downstairs and put it on, lovingly so!

341. Each body part has its purpose or reference. When I feel my hands it is a stop moment. It’s an exploration then and there – am I / are they hard or, are they emanating my love and tenderness. It is revealing and the way to deepen – it is in the touch of the fingertips and the allowing of my whole body to surrender to the divinity of the innate power of love I am and hold.

342. Thank you Coleen, a tender reminder that supports us to take care of all of our bodies by becoming very attentive to the quality of our extremities and Esoteric Yoga supports all the way to come back to a quality within our bodies that we too often push aside in our rush to get things done.

343. I don’t think I have ever seen hands focused on like this and during the blog I found myself rubbing my hands and looking at all the ways I use them. Even now typing I am aware of how my hands are and my fingers on the keyboard. It’s amazing to feel how this travels down your arms, shoulders and into your whole body. A very powerful sharing in this respect and I can see I have a new level of care and respect for this part of me and shows you how a little bit of appreciation can go a long way.

344. Thank you for this beautiful homage to our hands. I feel we can never be reminded enough how much we deserve to be treated with tenderness.

     1. Indeed Esther it is always timely to be reminded of the beauty and delicateness of our hands. Since reading this blog I have been paying much more attention to my hands and what I do with them, how I treat them and how my touch feels.

345. Coleen, what a beautiful testimony to the true power of Esoteric Yoga – the simplicity of being present with the body and re-connectng to the innate stillness within. From this place the body offers awareness of all that has been in function, push and drive in our daily living. How beautiful to re-connect with the grace and delicateness of your hands once more.

346. Interesting to read this as my knuckle has a chunk out of it! I have been noticing the delicateness of other women and men, it is inspiring to how beautifully we can be with ourselves and all we touch.

347. This is beautiful Coleen. Like my feet, my hands have been neglected and pushed to get me to A and B and do whatever needs doing with very little connection or awareness of them. I love how once we bring awareness to a part and honour what is there, how it feels and how it would like to be moved then the whole is equally touched by the same quality. I remember years ago coming back to work after completing an Esoteric Massage course with Universal Medicine and my hands were so delicate that I could instantly feel how harsh I had been typing before I left. How I pressed the keys changed and I felt way more present of all my body movements because of this change.

348. Coleen, I can very much relate to the matter-of-fact honesty offered by my body “without recrimination or blame: just a sharing of truth and the offering of a choice”. The stillness allows this truth to be observed, felt and understood. And what I find is that because it is such a physical observation and understanding it stays with me, and the next unfolding comes from it.

     1. Indeed Rosanna, when we feel something in the body that is true and understand its meaning we have a marker to return to which is so much more powerful compared to when we try to conceptualise something from our mind. and what you say when we have opened up from our body to this new awareness, we created the space to allow even greater awareness for us to unfold.

349. How gorgeous to be delighting in the loveliness of your hands in their many expressions… We are more than just functional creatures and should be honoured as such, yet we so often can overlook appreciation of ourselves… but there is not a part that does not deserve it for the wisdom, lessons or support it offers us through life.

350. Our hands and feet tend to be undervalued. It is usually not until we damage them in some way that we realise and appreciate what they allow us to do. However through your experience here with Esoteric Yoga you have been deeply inspired to appreciate your hands without the need for an injury to draw attention to them. Thats amazing, as all things are that truly inspire.

351. I find too that the way I’m moving my hands, gripping something or typing even is a great indicator to me for the energy in which I’m running on. I often find if I’m rushing that I just can’t do something that seems fiddly or drop things and when I recognise that and bring myself back to what I’m doing in that moment rather than letting my mind be elsewhere, then it usually is much easier and simpler to do what I’m doing.

     1. Super true, I find too that focusing back on my hands or my fingertips can help bring me back to what I’m doing, rather than letting my thoughts run crazy.

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