You set aside the usual inputs. No conversation. Just a set period to stop and feel what is actually there.

Over several hours, the system slows. The first layer settles, then you become quieter, more noticeable. This is where the work deepens. Not by doing more, but by allowing what has not been felt to come through and resolve.

Guidance is offered where needed. Questions can be raised. But much of the day is spent in mostly silence, allowing continuity rather than interruption. This keeps clarity, but the experience remains primary.

You only need a quiet space, a device and a stable connection. A Zoom link is provided after registration.

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You set aside the usual inputs. No conversation. Just a set period to stop and feel what is actually there.

Over several hours, the system slows. The first layer settles, then you become quieter, more noticeable. This is where the work deepens. Not by doing more, but by allowing what has not been felt to come through and resolve.

Guidance is offered where needed. Questions can be raised. But much of the day is spent in mostly silence, allowing continuity rather than interruption. This keeps clarity, but the experience remains primary.

You only need a quiet space, a device and a stable connection. A Zoom link is provided after registration.

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You arrive with the pace of daily life still active. Over time, that begins to slow. With sustained silence and a simple structure, the system settles. Attention returns inward. What has been held beneath constant movement becomes clearer, then begins to resolve.

Fifteen days allows this process to move further. Not just settling, but working through what emerges and stabilising before you leave.

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You arrive with the pace of daily life still active. Over time, that begins to slow. With sustained silence and a simple structure, the system settles. Attention returns inward. What has been held beneath constant movement becomes clearer, then begins to resolve.

Fifteen days allows this process to move further. Not just settling, but working through what emerges and stabilising before you leave.

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IN BRIEF: The power of stillness explained:

1. Physical stillness activates your body’s natural healing processes
2. Being still is not about emptying the mind — it’s about feeling what’s in the body
3. Stillness creates the conditions for deep recovery from pain, stress and trauma
4. Matthew Zoltan has spent 46 years mastering and teaching this approach
5. You don’t need techniques — your body knows what to do when you stop

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Learn Matthew’s approach → [Visit mattzoltan.com]

The most valuable thing I can do in my day is nothing, to just sit still.

Sounds dumb, right? But hear me out. Being still is interestingly something we often avoid—eschewing solitude and stillness due to discomfort—yet these moments possess profound healing potential.

For example, I used to struggle with constant stress and burnout. After incorporating moments of stillness into my daily routine, I noticed that I felt more in control of my feelings, less reactive to stress, and more connected to myself. These small pauses throughout the day had a profound impact on my mental and physical health.

When our bodies are left alone their natural intelligence will instantly and automatically get to work in the area where healing is most needed.

Research has shown that stillness activates the parasympathetic nervous system, often referred to as the ‘rest and digest’ system. This system helps lower heart rate, reduce stress hormones like cortisol, and promote a state of calm that is essential for healing both the mind and body.

Isn’t the human body cool! The body prioritises healing where it’s needed most; for example, it wouldn’t heal an elbow if the heart required attention.

We are no different to plants that grow towards the sun.

Plants can’t thrive in complete darkness, but have you considered that they invariably grow towards the sun’s light? Plants naturally grow towards the sun, just as we can’t help but heal when we allow ourselves to.

Unfortunately, our conditioning has taught us to prioritise busyness over stillness and mental activity over quiet. Society praises and rewards these qualities, but no one has ever earned a gold medal for quietness or stillness.

But imagine if that became the norm—receiving badges or bonuses for actively seeking solitude, stillness, and quiet

Imagine being okay with yourself just being quiet and still.

Renowned meditation teacher Matthew Zoltan emphasises the power of stillness in his natural meditation approach. He notes that by embracing stillness, we create space for self-healing, allowing us to connect with ourselves on a deeper level.

How would being still impact your life, your marriage, your health, and your finances?

Would your children join in with you? Would they be curious? Imagine how nice it could be to sit like that with the people who are close to you.

One user shared, ‘Since I started practising moments of stillness every morning, I’ve noticed a significant improvement in my ability to handle stress at work. I feel more grounded, and my relationships have improved because I’m no longer reacting impulsively to challenging situations.’

All of you feeling okay to just sit, eyes closed and be silent with no tension between you or if there was tension to be okay with that as well.

Animals do it all the time and don’t we envy them?

How often have you seen a sunbathing cat and thought “You’re lucky; I wish I could do that”? But we don’t do that. We don’t choose to be still.

It can be hard at first to put the brakes on and slow down. Over time, regularly adding  stillness into your life not only helps reduce stress but also improves emotional resilience. People who incorporate stillness into their routine report feeling more connected to themselves, better able to manage difficult situations, and less likely to feel overwhelmed by life’s challenges. 

If you find stillness uncomfortable, start with just a few minutes a day.

Try sitting in silence for 2-5 minutes and gradually increase the duration as you become more comfortable. It requires energy to resist the constant drive. It can be hard at first to put the brakes on and slow down. It requires energy to resist the constant drive pushing us to keep achieving, talking, and consuming information without pause.

All the information and activity carry inherent agitation, and when we sit still, we mistakenly attribute the agitation to our stillness. In reality, it’s the momentum of busyness burning out of us.

After a little while that momentum starts to burn out along with your excessive thinking.

You can probably relate to forgetting something important during a busy day then at the end of the day when you have time to be quiet (often just when you lay down to sleep) that important thing will surface to the top and ‘pop into your head’ because you have had just a little moment to be quiet.

That is the body’s natural intelligence and that information was actually stored in your body.

Aren’t you curious now to know what else you have stored in there that is exactly and specifically what you need to know? Details specifically just and only for you, and most importantly, specifically for your overall health?

This still and quiet time, done in the correct way with the correct understanding and guidance, could have a massive impact on health on a macro and micro level.

And it is absolutely free. You can do it anywhere at any time. Unlike many wellness practices that require special tools or memberships, stillness is something you can access anywhere, anytime, without any cost. Whether you’re sitting at your desk, waiting for an appointment, or enjoying a quiet moment at home, you can take a few minutes to embrace stillness and allow your body to do its natural healing work.

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The perfect place to give yourself the attention you need to heal and begin your personal transformation.

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The perfect place to give yourself the attention you need to heal and begin your personal transformation.

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This 15 day quiet retreat is held in the beautiful region of Augusta, Western Australia. Sheoak Chalets are nestled on a hillside just 3 km from the Augusta town centre, surrounded by the native trees of Leeuwin Naturaliste National Park.

The perfect place to give yourself the attention you need to heal and begin your personal transformation.

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N BRIEF: Going deeper in meditation:

1. Depth comes from the body, not the mind
2. Feeling physical sensations — not chasing states — is the path to depth
3. Most people plateau because they rely on techniques
4. Natural meditation bypasses the mind to access deeper layers
5. Retreats provide the ideal environment for deep practice

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Start with Undo App → [Download Undo]

How can I deepen my meditation?

A very popular question at the moment. Probably because there is no answer out there that really satisfies the question.

Until now.

Usually when you meditate you begin by thinking of a part of or the whole body to try and redirect thoughts from the world and outside activities you generally are always thinking about, to go deeper into your body.

However you need to understand that this is only minimising your thinking to focus on your physical body. Once you are mentally aware of you physically sitting there, that is as far as you can go with thought. And as far or deep as mindfulness, body scanning or any other technique can take you.

All thought and thought based meditation techniques are once removed from what they meditate on. These are just memory and repetitions, which cannot connect you or integrate you with anything immediate or current and so prevent you going deeper, because you are too caught up in the thought processes, or thought based techniques to really feel your body.

To go deeper, you need to physically sense, and so feel your sense of being alive as you are sitting there, however that feels for you.

This simple return to feeling your physical sense of self, beneath the shallow surface of your thinking, is everything natural meditation is. Within this sense of you is merged everything about you, the understanding of which is only accessible at this depth of felt sensation.

This is the point at which the body-mind interconnection is revealed to you. This is where and how the unresolved and unconscious becomes conscious and resolvable for you. When you’re just sitting there, physically still, feeling all that there is to feel beneath the shallowness of thinking.

Immersed in this felt depth in the body is what will enable recovery from the effects of life and make you whole.

This is how you will go deeper in your meditation.

When you are actually meditating, you are as deep as you can go; the already felt, sensed and known body of you.

This fullness of sensing dominates, and the shallowness of thinking fades into insignificance.

When you’re using a technique, you are in a  thought process of trying to meditate. The repetition of a technique is therefore not yet meditation and will not become so.

In repeating a technique or manta you get stuck in trying to meditate, rather than actually meditating and this way you’ll never go any deeper. You will just keep trying forever, and at best satisfy yourself with hypnotically induced states which have some short-lived effect. But as these are also thought based they are still shallow and will in no way allow you to deepen your meditation.

The only way to get depth is to go beneath any thinking/techniques into the felt sensations within the body.

Undo Life Navigation app will teach you, guide you in all of this and more if you want to download it, there is heaps of information on the Undo website so you can have a look at the approach before you download it. But we have had a lot of success from this approach so we know that it works.

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Truly.

What happens when, say, you get injured and can’t lift as heavy or do as many reps as you could before you got injured?

Or when you realise you’re a bit greyer now than you were at the start of the year. Or a bit plumper. Or you had a great day yesterday, when everything went your way and you felt light and full of joy then today you feel crap and unmotivated. Or your partner doesn’t give you the appreciation you want.

What happens every single time we feel other than content? We start comparing.

We compare how we are now with how we were yesterday, or last week or maybe even last decade! Or we compare ourselves to someone else, either someone we know, someone completely random or someone we’ve been taught to admire, like celebrities. Or we compare ourselves to some ideal we have of how we should be, or want to be. How we wish we were.

Then what happens?

We feel worse than we did to start with! Because now we have two parallel universes going on – one that’s real and what’s actually going on, which is how we feel/look/performed etc, and one that’s imaginary, which is how we wish we felt/looked/performed etc.

Instead of just going with the flow of whatever’s actually going on, we make ourselves unhappy with that and unhappy overall by comparing it to something completely imagined! We’ve actually imagined our unhappiness into existence. It’s such a weird thing to do when you think about it but we all do it. We’re all even encouraged to do it.

It’s time to try something different

The next time you feel unhappy or dissatisfied with how you are or anything in your life, take a minute to see what it is you’re comparing it to. Coz you’ll be comparing it to something if you’re dissatisfied.

Guaranteed.

If you weren’t, you’d be fine with however you are or whatever’s going on. I don’t mean you’ll be happy about it, but you wont be opposed to it. And there’s a huge difference.

Comparison is what is causing your problems

Not comparing, you have no problem. You just have what you’ve got, and you’ll either respond to that in a way that takes care of that or you wont. But with comparing, you have what’s going on, which may or may not need a response from you, then on top of that you have the problem of being unhappy with it.

The sad thing about that is the original feeling or situation, which was all perfectly in proportion with reality, gets exaggerated and feels ten times worse than it really is. Which then makes you work ten times harder to try to ‘solve the problem’ and get ten times more drama and exhaustion, and distraction from everything else in your life, until it’s resolved. All completely unnecessarily!

So what’s the alternative?

This is what I’ve learned through experience. Many times.

Next time you find yourself in this never-ending circle, stop and recognise that you’re comparing. Then ask yourself how you’d feel about what’s going on if that was all you knew and you had nothing else to judge or measure it against.

Does it still feel so bad? Are you maybe even a bit curious or interested now in what you feel or what’s going on instead of being hard on it? Are you still in such a rush to have it over with?

Maybe none of that will be the case, but I can promise you that simply dropping the comparison and just taking things, and seeing things, as they are will be hugely relieving. You’ll get your perspective back. You won’t be so confused about what really needs to be done next. And you’ll have taken all the pressure off yourself to be anything other than what and how you are. And to me, that’s true freedom.

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