About Stillpoint

Stillpoint is a small library of guided practices, written out rather than recorded. Each one gives you the full script with its pauses marked, the anchor it uses, and what to do when attention leaves — which it will, within a minute or two, for everyone.

Why written scripts

A recording decides your pace for you and cannot be slowed down at the point where you need it. A written script lets you take twelve minutes over a ten-minute practice, or read the same paragraph three times. It also works with the sound off, on a train, and at six in the morning without waking anyone.

The timer on each page exists for the same reason: it marks time without narrating, so the only voice in the room is yours.

What the practices have in common

• They are short. Most are between three and fifteen minutes, because that is what survives a real week.
• They are specific. Length, posture, what to do when the mind wanders, and what the practice is actually training.
• They are honest about difficulty. Where a practice is unsuitable for some people, the page says so instead of assuming it suits everyone.

What this site is not

It is not a course, an app, a teacher or a treatment. There is no progress tracking, no streaks and no account. Nothing here replaces a clinician, and nothing here is a substitute for a teacher if you want one — particularly for the longer body-scan practices, which some people find destabilising when done alone.

Corrections and questions

If a script is unclear, or a practice made something worse rather than better, write to [email protected] with the page address. Reports of that kind are the most useful mail this site receives.

How the site is made

Every practice here is written and reviewed by The Meditation Desk, the editorial desk behind Stillpoint. It is a desk rather than a personal byline: there is no individual practitioner whose name or qualifications are being lent to the material, and none is claimed. Where a page states something about breathing, attention or the body, it is general information that has been checked for consistency with the rest of the library — not one person's clinical opinion.

Every practice is written as original material, checked against the others for consistency of terms, and dated. The figures are generated from each practice's own identifier, so no two are the same and none of them are decorative stock.

Contact: [email protected]