Silence is a privilege
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Sitting down on the couch of my apartment, I just felt like closing my eyes and think, it is a feeling of something trying to talk through but that we normally shut down. As much as I tried to concentrate and not think about the noise outside, I could not help it but to listen to the cars, the tram, bicycles, people screaming, laughing or just talking loud, church bells, neighbors TVs, elevator, etc. After a few minutes, I was about to give up cause the only think that I could hear was the noise from everything, coming from everywhere.
But after a few minutes, suddenly the noise started to fade. It didn’t disappear but it’s like if someone volume it down and left a small space of thoughts and emptiness that can be very uncomfortable. Thoughts come and go and I start to notice more space between them and some of those thoughts come from places you didn’t know it existed with ideas or thoughts that you know but always dismiss, or maybe that you never imagined.
An event and feeling like this, is just the beginning. This is where the journey of reconnecting begins, is where one starts to scratch the surface of the connection with the universe, with your higher Self that is trying to emerge through you. It is talking to you with thoughts, ideas but mostly feelings that come from deep inside that will take you to the places you wish to be at. Places where you are fully happy, fulfilled with success and with all the abundance of love and richness you could just see in your wildest dreams.
If it so easy to connect to it, why aren’t we just listening and connecting to our higher self that whisper in our ears what is best for us anytime? I think it is because most of the time what is best for us is not what we believe is best for us, most of the times even our goals are based on rules and expectations we learned from outside from an early stage in our lives. In order to reconnect and get to the places we all aim to (Success, happiness, freedom, love, etc.) it takes very simple steps but is long journey of personal cultivation. The truth is that it is a journey that will never be done, but it is a process that worth the journey, even though you may never arrive.
The noise that I was listening to at my apartment, was there as an opportunity. And even though I could have given up and get upset (which I kind of did at the beginning) about how loud everything in a city could be, I just push forward, be aware of the thoughts coming and going, the emotions regarding the situation and of course, the noise outside.
With patience and practice there is no single thing that can kick you out of balance, happiness, success, freedom, etc. Because all these feeling starts from inside, is not something to seek outside but a feeling that end up being manifested in the external or physical reality. This process has become very difficult today because we live in a society where noise and distraction is the norm. We set up a standard of frequency that we accept as normal and we dismiss any signal under that frequency as if its muted or dismissed, but it is there and that noise make it very hard for someone to be able to listen to what literally the heart or the gut is telling him.
Today, noise is everywhere, and that silence for your mind, body and spirit, where you can reconnect and heal, has become harder and harder to find. It has become privilege. And in order to become who you aim to be and achieve the happiness, freedom, love and success we all want, it will take a journey of reconnection, a journey of finding the silence where the Universe speak through, a journey to make this essential privilege yours. And if you make it ours, is something nobody could ever take from you.