The Sound Of Silence.

I'm going to bring you on a journey through each of our senses over the next few blogs starting with the gift of hearing. To really hear we must first be silent.

As I sit here in total silence I listen. What do I hear? a distant sound of a car passing, a slight rustle in the trees, all far off in the distance. Around and close to me there is total peace, just the sound of the steady ebbing and flowing of my breath and my beating heart. I cherish it, I embrace it, I am comfortable with it. I need it to replenish myself. I need it to allow my thoughts settle and to be alone with my own company. It is truly a gift of my own making.

My thoughts come and go. Without resistince I just allow them in and out, the good and the bad, all part of me, of who I am and who I want to be. Thoughts as mundane as my waist band feeling tight, my windows in need of cleaning, of something I should or shouldn’t have said. I acknowledge and accept them as they come and go. My breath becomes slower and slower as I become one with the silent space I have created. I need this time to settle back in to myself, to leave those around me be as they are, and to remember the only one I can change and be responsible for is me.

I will do my best with what I have and what I have been given. I’m not perfect, I make mistakes, we all do. I am trying though, to be as good as I can be. God bless me on my journey. I am filled with gratitude and wonder at the gift of this silent space. I remind myself to visit this space more often. A space of my very own creation I can go to anywhere, anytime, whenever I want.

Silence teaches me to embrace sound, and then sound teaches me to embrace and appreciate silence. I know there there's no need to be afraid of it. To be alone and at peace in that aloneness with myself is a gift.

.Consciously find your own silence, create it, be at ease with it . Learn to trust and embrace it. Today allow yourself listen, really listen to the silence and become a one with your own company. God bless.

Bernie xx