When you’re facing a challenging endeavor, don’t sit in darkness, worried about the brightness outside. Don’t approach the task by anxiously forcing up the portcullis that protects your interior. Instead, connect with the stillness of intuitive flow. Connect with the stillness of movement. Stillness is like the well-oiled machinery that efficiently slides open the portcullis protecting your heart. Stillness swings open the thick doors around your soul and guides you cheerfully out into the fray. Enter your day from a place of stillness rather than anxiety or discouragement. Let stillness be your guide and your protector … it can flow within you no matter in what army you’re serving today. Practice stillness not just by meditating or trying to feel calm—practice it by feeling energized and powerful.