What is stillness?

[TheJoan]

Wondering if you have firsthand experience and wisdom or Life Pro Tips to share about silence, stillness, and one-pointedness.

You can use thoughts to still the mind focus on one thought, and use it as a shield to not let yourself be distracted by other thoughts. Also, You can listen to your own heart beats to completely forget that there are thoughts. These are the 2 ways that I use. I'm not sure If I've reached stillness of the mind, but I've experienced in 3 occasions how my awareness started separating itself from the head and going down to the heart before reaching the heart there is sort of wall which I couldn't pass. You feel it, like you have reached a balanced state of being I think, not of mind because its like your awareness changes. You feel different.