Savor the Silence of Your Heart

There’s a belief that thoughts are bad, but thoughts are just fish in the river. You think a river minds having fish? — Pamela Wilson

Each step you take with a quiet, present mind expands the inner peace and tranquility you may experience in every moment. But it’s not only you who enjoys the joy of your grace — such easeful steps emanate peace to the world around you too.

This is true of any work you do, and how you engage with others both online and in real life.

When you are anchored into the silent joy of your spirit, the ripples flow through your creations, your communications and all of your interactions.

What I speak of here is a basic function of Resonance:

res·o·nance  / Noun: {Oxford Dictionaries}

1. the quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating: the resonance of his voice

2. the power to evoke enduring images, memories, and emotions: the concepts lose their emotional resonance

3. Physics the reinforcement or prolongation of sound by reflection from a surface or by the synchronous vibration of a neighbouring object.

We often overlook the significant resonance of silence, because we are bombarded with sensory overload, and we have been trained to use our minds to analyze and critique everything presented to us.

Basically, your mind is busy doing its job and delighting itself! Unfortunately this tends to result in it’s getting carried away and running off all on its own.

As your mind whirrs delightedly through a million conundrums you are left with a whirlwind of unprocessed emotional energy to sort through. That’s not much fun for you or any of us….

But there is another way — and that is to make more space for sacred silence.

Deep silence is delightful! It can carry so much essence and grace, especially when appreciated and held close gently.

To Savor the Silence is to cultivate peace and spaciousness in your heart, opening space for your Spirit to enter more fully into your being.

The Silence Asks You Turn Gently Inward

The core of this learning is a gentle turning inward of your awareness…

Simply Notice what is going on in your being. Acknowledge if you are experiencing physical pain, your thoughts are whirring at high speed, or maybe it is your heart and feelings that are hurting.

If your mind is spinning off around ten different conflicting experiences of your day, these thoughts may be triggering emotional responses inside you. The more you ignore these emotions the the more they will tend to act out in other ways such as conflicts, arguments or accidents.

Not stillness.

Often what is needed for there to be more peace and quiet is a simple recognition and acceptance of what is going on:

Notice what you are feeling so you can start to unwind all the thinking around it!

Your mind is not at fault. How can it ever be? Your mind is simply doing what it does best, and that is how it has been conditioned to be. It is on you to choose and take the reins of your thoughts and emotions. To be the king or queen of your own mind palace.

Only you can change your response to what is going on.

Only you can choose to pay attention and give space for whatever that is.

In most cases a simple choice to presence silent awareness is all that is needed for your being to settle down and joyful being-ness to arise.

Choose Joy

When you make space for joy without having to analyze, critique and intellectualize every experience — and without needing any external stimuli — you may be delighted to find there is more room for the direct experience of what is.

In the silence of your heart blooms everything you have craved so deeply.

Pure joy.

A stillness that carries the echoes of a thousand lifetimes past and future.

I would like to invite you to join me in savoring the Infinite Silence of your heart…

Dropping into a more relaxed and present awareness, I invite you to take a deep breath in and release everything you have been carrying today. Feel the release as you allow your breath to move into every corner of your being. Notice the softness massaging the tension behind your eyes and between your ears…feel it tickling under your bottom and wiggling in your toes.

Repeat this breath cycle two more times and notice the ease that emerges as your presence arises in the silence. Notice what is going on, and give yourself the space to be OK with whatever that is. Allowing and accepting it all with an open heart. Notice if you can you feel your heart expanding with the simple ease of your silent presence.

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Reflections…In Closing

How has this shifted your experience of life vs how you were feeling before?

Can you also sense the silent essence of this writing more clearly now?

What is the potential for this practice to help you bring a more clear and present awareness into your own life and work?

How might the quiet resonance of your footsteps change the world?

Savor the Silence,

Satya

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This is one way of Walking In Beauty.

I've recently landed from a whirlwind adventure of beautiful crazy, and using this as a daily practice to rein it all in now. Hope it helps you too! If so, please share with your loved ones: https://satyacolombo.com/enjoy-the-silence ~ in silent solidarity… ;)

“The mind can go in a thousand directions. But on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, a gentle wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms." —Thich Nhat Hanh