Sounds of Silence

How many of us take the time to try to find silence in this crazy world? From the time we wake until we lay our heads down again noise invades our world. Life itself is noisy. If you have children, noise is unavoidable. Pets can be so insistent as well if they want something.

And then there is the outside noises in our life. The noisy radios blaring from car stereos. The brakes on a semi truck trying to stop quickly are noisy. What about screaming sirens from an emergency vehicle? Impatient drivers honk the horns on their cars when someone takes too long at a stoplight. Silence seems to be a lost treasure.

Through all of this going on when do we take the time to find silence in our lives? Without silence there is no chance to listen to our hearts. We all want answers to the questions in our lives, but we never listen to hear the answers to our questions. Most of the answers we are searching for are within our hearts. Who listens?

I was raised religious and I turn often to prayer to find answers for things that I question. When I ask questions I have to be silent if I want to hear those answers come to me. How can we hear if we are always paying attention to the distractions? How can God answer my questions if I spend all my time listening to music or television? When can He find time to answer me if I’m never listening?

Most often I receive my answers when I am alone at a park with my writing and my art. The park I like to visit is quiet. Visitors come and go without interrupting or interacting. As I sit writing thoughts and words into a notebook or working on a new painting or drawing, the answers to things on my mind seem to just float into my head. My answers come in those moments of silence.

I believe that most people actually avoid silence because they don’t want to be alone with themselves. I enjoy the silence and the solitude so it’s hard for me to understand this. But the thought of sitting in silence can send the heart rates of some people soaring. Are they afraid of their thoughts? Are they afraid of what they may find out about themselves? What are they afraid of?

I used to enjoy having music with me at all times too. Silence felt heavy to me. However, in my case a lot of that was because I was never alone in those moments. The empath in me was picking up on a lot of energies I didn’t recognize. I was carrying energies with me that weren’t mine.

Since then, I have discovered the fact that I am an empath. I have learned the value of baths with Epsom salt baths to wash away energies that don’t belong to me. And I have learned the healing value of silence.

Do YOU listen to yourself?