Creating My New Reality In 3 Minutes In Stillness

What does it look like to find peace when everything is falling apart?

During catastrophic wildfires, my mind was ablaze with fear… until my I AM whispered: sit, be silent, for three minutes. That simple pause shifted everything.

In this vtalk, I share:

The exact moment I stepped out of crisis into presence

What those three minutes revealed about inner peace and clarity

A simple guided pause you can try anytime chaos knocks at your door

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, may this story remind you that stillness is a powerful refuge.

What if just 3 minutes of stillness could change your entire day… or even your life?

In the middle of chaos, there is a doorway: stillness. This short practice shows how even a few minutes can:

Calm the nervous system

Bring clarity in the midst of crisis

Reconnect you with your I Am presence.

Transcript

So I promise you to share with you another story when I was able to create my reality when I was in the chaos,

When our farm,

Our smallholding nearly burned down,

When I already saw our place burned down,

I was saying goodbye to every possession we've got,

Everything we built here.

I was in such a chaos that I didn't even believe we will come out of it alive because it happened here.

Eight years ago in wildfires,

The people died,

119 people died and we live in Portugal and right now we are amidst of crazy arson attacks like on Friday,

Last Friday,

There were 37 active fires,

One of the largest one in whole Europe,

If I don't count north of Spain.

We've got an active map of fires and I could see that someone is putting on and setting up the fires in the morning,

During lunch break and at the night time.

And during that day,

Friday,

When it was bank holiday last week,

I could see almost every hour it was new fire.

So there were 37 active fires and all firefighters were fighting,

Especially in Guardia area on the north from us,

One and a half hour journey by car on the north.

And there were three main huge fires and one fire started here on Wednesday in the mountains,

13th of August,

But it was far away.

I've never been there.

If I wanted to visit that place by car in the mountains,

It would take me like two hours.

So I wasn't worried,

But it traveled here.

It was so windy and there were so few firefighters working on that fire here that they could not hold it off.

And on Sunday,

When we went for a walk with dogs,

We saw catastrophic fires all around.

It felt like apocalypse and it felt like apocalypse only because there were no aeroplanes extinguishing the fires.

There were no firefighters.

It was just on the horizon of the mountain peaks,

But not the Serra Estrela peaks.

Now it's Serra Estrela peaks are on the fire,

But before it was like next village,

Behind the next village hills,

They were on the fires.

And I thought they will try to stop it,

But because there were no resources,

There were no firefighters,

They sort of let it be.

And on Monday,

It came to our village and we are at the edge of the village,

At the edge where all around us are valleys and the forest.

We have chosen those areas because we are active hikers and we love forests and walking.

But because of that,

Our farm already burned down last year.

This year,

It came from a different direction.

Our neighbor had to,

Everyone was at home because it was dark.

You didn't know that the sun is up and it was already midday and it was dark and you could not breathe from the fumes.

And it was so surreal quiet,

The road was closed,

There were no sirens,

There were no firefighters,

They were in other villages.

No one was expecting that it will come here.

Where it came from,

There were no roads,

So no one could monitor it.

And there was no one to monitor it.

So our neighbor,

We live next to the the Bomberos,

The fire station is not so far from us.

I can kind of see it from here,

But there were none of them here.

We had to wait like 30 minutes for them to come.

And there were no airplanes,

There were just a few cars.

I don't know,

Five,

Six,

Seven,

Seven max cars on such a huge area of fire because it came from different directions and it really entered the village as well.

So we were just watching it and I was sure we will burn down.

I wanted to go away,

I wanted to run away.

In my mind,

I visualized that it's done,

It's gone,

I need to get used to it.

All my belonging,

It's done,

It's gone,

I need to get used to it.

So we already packed our belongings into the car,

Just what we really need and not much.

So we've got our ID and passport and a few clothes and that's it,

And a mobile phone and laptop and that's it.

We get ready our dogs and I cut our cat and put it into the box.

But that box is already like not so big for our cat,

She grew within three months and because she felt fumes,

She was scared and she didn't want to be in the box,

In that container,

You know,

When you go to the vet,

But it's not really big size.

She could breathe well,

But she was scared,

She didn't want to be.

.

.

How to say it?

On loose,

Yeah,

She wanted to be free.

So the only thing which really distressed me even more was like if I let her go now,

I will not catch her and she will die in the fire.

I was terrified because my animals are my children.

So what happened is.

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.

What came to my mind is Miriam,

You need to calm down,

You need to go into the stillness,

You need to go into the presence.

And I knew there is nothing else I can do.

I could not choose reality.

I did last year,

I was able to choose that we will be safe,

But this year I could not.

I didn't have energy for it,

I was too much in fear.

It was illogical that we will make it that so many houses already burned down because there were few firefighters and they could not stop the fire.

So all I wanted our animals to be safe and run away,

But with the cat,

She was making such a noise.

She was so unhappy.

It was tearing me apart.

So I asked my husband,

Can we sit down?

I know it's illogical in the midst of cows when you see fire all around you,

Just,

I don't know,

200 meters from you coming here.

It's illogical to sit down on your farm when you are really in such a danger.

There were not even people who would say to evacuate,

That there were not enough people.

It's such a huge fire right now that actually they advise you to stay because the road is closed.

They don't want what happened eight years ago to happen again.

So you die on the road,

In the car,

You burn down.

So my husband and I,

We just sat down and you can imagine hearing and smelling the fire.

You can see it actually from all directions.

And I said,

I've got three minutes and I need to calm down.

I need to go into my stillness and into my presence.

I don't know what to do,

But in the presence and stillness,

I need to find the answers.

So when I was going down and down into myself from head into my body,

I put all my focus and intention into one point where it was a quiet place.

It was like a place,

Untouched place within me.

There was quietness and peace.

There was no movement,

There were no fears,

There were no thoughts.

I could sense that place.

It was like a bunker,

Like hidden small place within me where there is that stillness and quietness.

I knew I could sense it,

I could feel it.

And I drew all my attention into that one bunker within me where there was stillness and peace and nothing was moving there.

No thoughts,

No chaos,

No emotions.

And I moved there and I just stayed there for three minutes,

Did nothing.

I just kept myself in that bunker because parts of me wanted to go back into the fear,

Back into the worries,

Back into the thoughts and I kept it there.

I kept it there.

I went into the bunker and I was there and I was just there and I was breathing and I was just observing like there is a war around you.

It was such a chaos and noise around me,

Immense darkness and energy and fighting and fear,

Devastation.

I could see it,

I could observe it but for that little moment I was hidden within me,

In that bunker within me.

And then suddenly I hear the answer,

Let the cat loose,

Let her go,

She will be fine,

She'll be safe.

But what happened next,

I don't know how to describe it because always when I was choosing and making my reality it was human self that was choosing.

But this time my human self,

I put all energy to keep myself in that bunker within me,

In that stillness,

In that presence and it was a small place within me.

It was a huge one and I had all I did with my energy was keeping myself there and not moving,

Just being in stillness.

So something else within me was making a choice.

I didn't use my mind,

Brain,

I didn't think about it.

There was no effort whatsoever but within me I've had a voice.

I am choosing that our farm is untouched by fire and that we are staying there and that we are safe.

No matter what's going on around me,

No matter what's going around us,

Our smallholding,

Our homestead is untouched by fire.

And when that voice,

I even observed that voice,

It didn't come even from me but it was from me.

I could hear it,

I agree with it of course,

I said yes,

I agree with it.

Human self was totally fucked up.

Human self was already,

She already visualized everything burned down,

She was already dead.

But within that stillness something within me created a new reality.

And the whole myself,

Even the human self felt it and I knew that's true.

I felt like,

I always know when I choose,

Before when I was choosing,

I know that it will happen because there is that knowing.

When you choose 100%,

When you go all in 100%,

There is always that knowing that it's done without effort.

I don't need to visualize it,

I don't need to write it,

I don't need to say to myself again and again,

It's done.

Just by saying it with the authority and with total decision like this is what I am choosing and this is what is happening and this is what will happen and then suddenly comes like inner peace and knowing that it's done.

So in a way,

Three minutes felt like eternity.

But I got so relaxed and so knowing that no matter where the fire comes from,

No matter how bad it looks,

The fire will not touch our small holding.

I knew that.

That was one o'clock afternoon and the fire and the danger finished at nine o'clock.

So we were kind of safe around nine,

Ten o'clock-ish.

We kind of slept well because I knew we are safe.

If I didn't have that knowing,

I wouldn't sleep.

Why would I?

And another day there was also another danger because it came from another side,

But I knew,

I made a decision.

You don't need to make that decision again.

When you make it once,

Which is 100% and it follows by that knowing,

Then it's enough when you do it once.

It took me three minutes to get into that knowing from total despair into knowing all is well.

Three minutes in stillness and it's not even me like human self which was doing the choosing.

I don't know how to do it.

Now I'm practicing it and testing it.

What was it?

How can I use it for other creation of reality?

But I learned one thing,

That spending each time on stillness and practicing that stillness and presence,

It's more than vital.

It's the most essence activity which I have to do.

Because within that I can also create a reality,

But also I'm aligning with myself and my highest self and my best version of myself that I'm letting go at the same time that lots of is happening when I am in stillness and presence.

Then the second part is really choosing myself all the time,

Choosing not to criticize myself,

Choosing being responsible for my behavior and my emotions and then choosing what really I want.

My desires matter and fulfilling my desires and doing only what feels excited for me,

Not doing things from duty.

Self-love is like concentrating and focusing on myself,

Choosing myself,

Having compassion for myself,

Not criticizing myself,

Paying attention whatever they want,

Living from the pleasure,

Living from the passion and not the duty and not should and I have to,

Letting go all of that.

So I hope this another story helped you.

It was for me like how many times you are in that situation,

Not many times.

So for me it was a huge experience.

So much love to you all and see you next time.

Thank you for co-creation and for tuning in.