You will find all the Answers in Silence

Today we live in the Era of noise. You have soul-numbing solutions at hand every single moment. The main ones would be; Food, alcohol, gambling, drugs, judging and criticizing other people, working as many hours as people can, and the biggest one social media.

We constantly think, talk, move. We are in doing mode all the time. People aren’t physically able to be in boredom. They can’t stay still.

If they do, all the emotions will come up, all the thoughts will creep in, all the traumas will find the way to come out and it becomes unbearable for people to stay with themselves. 

Humans will do anything not to stay with themselves. They will live their life feeling like something’s missing from their life. In reality, it’s the connection to themselves that is missing. 

They will live their whole lives trying to find their beautiful selves outside of themselves. They will search for themselves in other people, in alcohol, and in all the other numbing solutions. They will waste their whole lives in searching mode. In reality, they were never lost, they were always present.

Where to start?

Go into the room, dark or bright. Go alone and don’t bring anything with you. No food, book, drink, or device. Sit down and just be. 

Thoughts will arrive, but don’t cling to them. Try to help your thoughts flow. When one thought comes, see it for what it really is, just a thought. It’s not truth or a lie. It’s simply a THOUGHT.

You don’t have to believe them or listen to them. You can recognize that they are present and let them go.

Your habits will show itself. Your hand might automatically go to grab the phone and it’s okay. You are used to checking your phone every second, it’s a habit. Sit through that feeling. You would become hungry, you might want to pee, you might need to drink. Your numbed body and mind will do everything to bring you back to the familiar (even the familiar is literally killing you).

Make sure you remove any obstacles prior to going into the room. and if it helps set a time for yourself. Not an actual timer. But tell yourself that you will do your absolute best and only after trying your best you will allow to leave the room.

Also, have compassion for yourself. Treat it like a baby that’s just starting life. Give yourself time and space to go. Don’t start to have negative self-talk and don’t call yourself “dumb, stupid” or/and all the other “names”. to grow you need to nurture yourself. Let anything you do today to be enough

You will feel like you can’t do it anymore or that you are going crazy. You will have two options you will sit through the inner storm or you will surrender to your limiting habits. It will be very challenging to become sober. To wake up to reality. But again whatever you do should be enough. Meaning you can’t cling to the past and say “I could have done better”, and then feel bad about it.

Remind yourself before quitting how you would feel if you do so and if quitting is worth that nagging feeling you get afterward then go for it… But take responsibility for every single decision you make and action you do. The feeling that you did it and accomplished it will always leave you fulfilled and joyful. Because deep down in your heart you know you can simply do anything you want and all the false reasons aren’t valid anymore and it all becomes draining and makes you feeling unaccomplished.

When you listen you can filter what’s you and what’s not you. When you can remove the excess information from your life you can uncover your true self. When you uncover your inner true voice you can connect to it.

When you let go of your thoughts and make your mind your servant, you will be in your body. when you are in your body you are present and when you are present you can hear what your heart has to say.

No matter what happens in your life, stop, and listen. Listen to the silence. It’s always there and it’s always present. It will always calm down your inner storm. Your heart is always well if you let it and listen to it.

In the universe, all is always well. The silence reflects it. 

When you listen to the silence you too realize that at that very moment all is well with you too.

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