Enjoy the Silence

You Earthlings are so funny. All about doing you are it seems. So much so that when you encounter one another, you tend to ask: "So... how are you doing?"

Yes, We are well aware that while the question "How are you being?" is more accurate to what you are truly asking, it does have a peculiar ring to it.

There is much chatter all around you. In this information age of yours, news and being in the know seems quite important.

However, staying up-to-date on everything does take a lot of your time. And when you get or find opposing or conflicting views/news, well, you spend even more time researching, trying to figure out who is right (or true).

All that information chasing does leave you with little time to be. Especially when you factor in all the time required to perform your necessary duties as an employee, a spouse, a student, a parent and so on. That leaves you with very little time to be...

Just a thought. Notice when the impulse to know or do strikes you. Had you been thinking about spending time being (with yourself or others) when the doing creature ran out of its hole, urging you to chase it, for instance?

If that is the case, see what happens if you stick with your being plan instead of entering into your usual doing mode.

Turn off all the noise makers if you will and take the time to enjoy the silence for a while.

When you manage to shut off all the external chatter, be prepared to hear the not-so-nice things the unloved parts of you may be telling yourself. It can be challenging to love all that you are. You do tend to show your good side to the world, that is quite alright. There is no need to tell the entire world about your ugly bits if you will. However, if you admit to yourself you hate your big ugly nose, then take a good look at yourself in the mirror afterwards, you may actually find yourself stating, out loud: "You're not so bad after all. In fact, you do possess a certain charm, a certain je-ne-sais-quoi that is quite attractive." 

But to be able to do that, well, you kind of need to give all your doing a break. Turn off the automatic pilot that came with your birth or you upbringing it seems, and be you and exclusively you, if only of a little while.

Doing is so easy. That is what you have been taught to do since the day you were born. It's the being part that you tend to trip on. 

Like We mentioned in our previous message and so many ones before, take the time to be. To sit in that silence. Hear the parts of you yearning for your acceptance and hear the untruths that keep playing in your head and keep you doing. We are not talking about truths that are hard to accept, like being tone-deaf, which makes a singing career very unlikely. We are speaking of things you were told that you know are false, but somehow something happened, and you live as if they were true. 

State out loud that you accept X or Y as a valid and beautiful part of you. Say aloud what you know to be the truth about you as a being. 

Because, well, you do tend to start doing the moment your being stops being all about sunshine and lollipops (whatever that means)...

It may take a while, but with time, you will slowly set yourself free... to be.

This is All.

Much Light and Love to Everyone.

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