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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Silence and Solitude

I am a big believer in the power of music. Almost every time I sit down at the computer, I set it to play something. I have different selections for different moods, and pretty much always have something that works for me.

But I think that moments of silence are just as powerful and sometimes more important. There is so much in our daily lives that creates noise, and we are so busy it can be hard to take moments and just sit in silence and not do anything.

This past weekend, my son was away spending the weekend with his grandparents. During the summer it is a lot harder for me to have solid chunks of time that are just quiet, and I hadn't realized how much I had missed it until that first morning (and then evening when my husband went off to work and I truly had the house to myself...for the first time since summer vacation started).

I am pretty aware of how much noise people make, even when they aren't being loud. I think that people have a presence, and this manifests for me in tangible ways. I'm much more responsive to sound than I am to sight in some ways, and sounds tend to bother me quicker. It's like being around a low grade hum, and then all of a sudden it goes silent, and you are suddenly consciously aware of the lack of noise.

I really think that it is important that we take time to ourselves. And not just time to indulge in things that we enjoy doing (although that is important as well!), but just to BE. As little as a few moments, by yourself, in silence, doing nothing, can be extremely revitalizing.

Monday, July 11, 2011

Justification: another face of fear

Facing our fears is something we do as a part of growth. Every step we take forward, we are leaving something behind. It can be something that is both extremely trying and ultimately liberating.

In order to face our fears we have to know them and name them. Some things are easy to name, some we can only admit to in the privacy of our own minds. But some hide behind the mask of justification. We allow ourselves to make excuses so that we don't have to admit to our fears. We claim we are busy and don't have time because we are afraid of failing. We put off trying something new because we don't have the money.

Sometimes these limitations are true, there is a finite amount of time, and at any current moment some things may be out of our reach. But we have to learn to be brutally honest with ourselves. Because sometimes, we use these limitations to avoid doing something that we might fail at. We hide behind our reasons as to why we can't even start a project because we are afraid of what the outcome might be.

And sometimes, it isn't even failure that we are afraid of, but success, or even simply change. It is easy to continue as we always have. Change brings us into the unknown and that can be a very scary thing.

Part of our process of inner growth is forcing ourselves to be honest. We don't have to shout our fears to the world, but we do have to admit them to ourselves. We might not be able to surmount them today, but if we don't admit them, we will never get past them.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Reality Adjusting!!

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