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Just this Day thanks everybody who took part.

As a way of joining in the stillness movement, listen here to Dame Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg who joined the St Martin-in-the-Fields Choral Scholars, the Ceruti Quartet and Discantvs in the Music for Stillness concert. If you feel moved to, you can make a donation to www.smitf.org/christmas.

Visit the Gallery and see some of the photographs of walkers. Over 200 people, many children, walked the labyrinth on the first day and found it a deeply still experience. Labyrinth walkers, can you find yourself?

Our world is busy and in the turmoil we forget we all share the same space. Go beyond nationality, religious belief or difference and remember the still, silent present where everything is united. That space is the same. In cities or fields. Up mountains or in valleys. In work, study or play. In fortune or adversity. In peace or conflict. In fact wherever YOU are. It belongs to us all.

This year, 2011, was the FIFTH year of celebrating Stillness where differences can be left behind. The events at St Martin were set in the normal day of the Church, starting with morning prayer and with both a choral eucharist and a choral evensong. The Church kept a 3 minute silence on every hour and there was a half hour meditation at 10.00 am. The speakers with the addition of four senior school girls from St James Senior Girls School, made an irresistible case for the introduction of Positive Silence and Meditation in Schools. In the evening, Dame Emma Kirkby and lutenist, Jakob Lindberg, joined the St Martin-in-the-Fields Choral Scholars and Discantvs for a concert, Music for Stillness. To listen to this go to the top of the page. It is the Just this day offering for Advent, Christmas and the New Year.