A message from today’s meditation:
“Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.” – Deepak Chopra
“Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.” – Deepak Chopra
“To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.” – Deepak Chopra
Often when people first try and embrace a regular practice of meditation, it doesn’t feel like a meeting with the soul, but feels uncomfortable or even scary.
This is because the first thing we encounter as we try to embrace silence is our own wild and out of control mind. If we’re used to avoiding our own thoughts by numbing them or by any other distractions, then coming face to face with them in a silent space can feel like a personal onslaught.
The opportunity here is to learn how to allow these thoughts to happen without trying to hide from them. Can you take a step back and just let the thinking happen without getting involved with any of it? Are you able to look at you thinking all these crazy thoughts without judging yourself for thinking them?
When you’re able to look at you, with no judgement, no criticism, only love and acceptance… then perhaps you have gotten in touch with your soul just as Deepak suggests, and perhaps you’re seeing YOU through the eyes of your soul.
– pierre –
Today’s LIVE meditation is: Finding silence.