Deep within us lies a wisdom, a soul that inherently knows how to restore balance and wholeness. Yet, despite this inner knowing, we often find ourselves stuck, unable to access this healing power. Why? Because our minds, endlessly busy and preoccupied, act as the gatekeeper. The real challenge isn’t discovering how to heal but learning how to quiet the mind enough to let the healing happen naturally.
The concept of trying to silence the mind can be misleading though, as it implies a forced quieting of our thoughts and emotions.
”The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” – Caroline Myss
“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.” – Rachel Naomi Remen
I have learned to trust that our souls know exactly how to heal us once we get the mind out of the way. But as much as “silencing the mind” is the perfect description, silencing the mind as a goal or as a practice seems to not be very useful.
We are given a busy subconscious mind as a tool for survival, and it’s a very successful tool at that. And so trying to will or force a mind to be quiet, is literally a threat to it’s survival and will be resisted by trying to fight the source of this threat which is you…
“Silencing the mind” is rather a side-effect of forming a new relationship with your mind, your thoughts. The new relationship that you can form with your “self” is one of being the observer, being able to witness those thoughts that are so worried about all the expectations and who you “should” be – while being able to just hold them without judgement or criticism. When you don’t react and just watch, it eventually becomes clear to your thoughts that there is no threat here. That is when the mind becomes quieter in and of itself.
Join us for today’s meditation which is a very simple exercise of exactly this – being the witness to what your body is experiencing.
As you move forward in your personal development journey, consider these guiding mantras for self-reflection:
- “I am not my thoughts; I am the observer of my thoughts.”
- “Healing begins when I let go of who I think I should be.”
- “In stillness, I find the wisdom of my soul.”
When we stop reacting to our thoughts and simply observe them, something remarkable happens. The mind starts to settle on its own. Without the constant attention and judgment, the thoughts begin to lose their power.
Have a beautiful Saturday.
– pierre –
Today’s LIVE meditation is: Come to your senses.