One of my most watched youtube videos is The Art of Silence. In this video I talk about the incessant need of sharing and opining via talking, along with the energy consequences of this activity. I also introduce the concept of silence as a spiritual practice to evolve oneself and grow in maturity and conscious evolution.
The need to constantly share has become more of an obsession with the advent of social media and the unexamined ‘social’ and ‘cultural’ norms of constantly updating one’s life status, thoughts, opinions, and activity levels.
In this world, everyone is fighting for the lead role on the stage of life. Pay attention to me! Listen to me! Watch this! Look at me doing this! See me, hear me, acknowledge me!!!
This is the ego, the unconscious, the unevolved aspect of ourselves that is desperate for attention in whatever form it can get it from.
The internet aside, socializing and communing with others is equally fascinating.
People love to talk. They especially love to talk about themselves.
But did you ever notice that no one likes to listen? Those that listen are generally therapists, healers, helpers, and/or teachers.
Those that find themselves in these roles tend to learn through observation, notice patterns, perceive the subtle, gravitate towards silence, prefer nature, and regularly practice self-contemplation and higher self-awareness.
The listeners of this world usually prefer solitude.
Why?
If you no longer have the need to constantly express and impress, then what do you have left?
What is left is life. Simplicity. Purity. Silence. Bliss.
Satchitananda or Truth, Consciousness, and Bliss
What the ancients have long expressed as: Satchitananda or Truth, Consciousness, and Bliss.
In the beginning, we stay silent to learn, to observe, to calm the feverish waters of the mind, egoic psyche, and karmic compulsions.
As we abide in silence, we build greater and greater momentum as more and more self-awareness dawns. We notice things more, we pay attention easier, we come to understand others easily, we stay calm, our intuition grows, and our sensitivity to life expands.
In the later stages, silence is no longer a disciplined practice but a call back home, our refuge, our center, our source of everything.
Learn to calm the waters of the mind. Practice silence.
Abstain from social media for a time. At first it will be difficult as the mind has an incessant need to share, judge, and compare. How else will you get your fix if you don’t find someone or something else to argue with or about?
Knowing this, give yourself some time to explore silence. At first, let it be a day without any social media updates, mindless flicking of Tik Tock or Youtube shorts, negative news updates, and gossip articles.
Explore this uncomfortable feeling and choose to do something else. Go outside and take a walk. Clean out that closet. Plant a tree, play with your children or pets. Start a new art craft or build something useful.
As you practice silence you gain more time. Time which can be used for self-exploration, personal development, and meditation.
Silence and solitude is not to be feared but to be explored to its depths.
Do something different and try something new.
If you are ready to explore silence and the depths of your being and would like a guide and mentor to help you on your path, please click the button below to schedule a discovery call with me. I look forward to working with you!
With you in wholeness,
Elizabeth
