About Just This Day
Elizabeth Edmunds had an idea that has become a vision, which is to get people to stop together on one day: NOVEMBER 28th. She has invited organisations and faiths to open their doors to everyone who wishes to take part on November 28th by simply being still.
Her wider invitation to the entire world population is to asks everyone to switch their mobile phones to silent mode for some time on the day, and to just take 3 minutes to allow their minds to also fall quiet.
This is why:
Our world is busy and in the turmoil
we forget we all share the same space.
Families, communities
and countries live with conflict,
poverty and disease.
How can we make a difference?
STOP
For Just This Day
Go beyond nationality, religious difference or belief
and remember the still, silent presence
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.
The idea of Sharing in Stillness is how Just This Day was born:
Just This Day was started by a mother, grandmother, teacher and student. Approaching her sixtieth year, Elizabeth found the divisions in families, societies, nations and even between religions and faiths, deeply sad. “Surely” she thought “this is not how we were designed to live?”
“If life has taught me anything, it is that fundamentally everybody is the same in wishing for happiness for themselves and those they love. If that circle is extended, the wish for happiness for others must expand with it.”
The idea for Just This Day came to Elizabeth from two clear observations. First, that stillness exists. Second, when a person or a group of people are still, the power of that stillness has a tangible, palpable and positive effect.
To sit or be still knowing that the circle of well wishers of the world was your family, will she believes, be more powerful than any amount of political debate, more effective than any action.
Imagine what the effect of being still on Just This Day with thousands of other people could have? It is something anybody, whatever nationality, race, religion, age or gender can do.
The idea of joining together as a worldwide family on November 28th has already received a clear and positive response. This is something we CAN all do. We can allow ourselves to believe that there is a real possibility that by joining humanity in stillness we can make a difference.
SWITCH YOUR MOBILE PHONE AND MINDS TO SILENT FOR JUST THIS DAY.
