The power of silence

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06/21/22 • 6 min

Mindful Hypnosis

37-Silence is powerful and it can bring us into a state of mindfulness

Let’s take a pause for silence

Silence... the lack of noise, the lack of chaos and loudness.

Now when I talk about silence, I'm definitely not talking about external noise.

Life has got busy as less connected.

It seems that we've gotten louder and louder.

When we can become mindful and present, we can find a bit of silence and stillness.

This is when we notice that there are spaces between our thoughts.

When there is a sense of calmness and stillness, it almost feels beyond spaciousness. It feels open and intense, yet peaceful.

It also helps to make our minds feel more at ease.

Plus it gives us a reprieve from our busy day.

So how do you go about finding this silence?

Now some people have a hard time quieting their minds down or it makes them feel better having all that noise.

Some of it is learned behavior and sometimes it's a sensory issue.

But we can find our own version of silence within a busy world that can bring us some peace.

Personally, I need to have the external world quiet so I can just sit and listen.

You can do this too.

Connect with your inner stillness.

Instead, you're allowing thoughts to come and go, and the more you do this, the more space you'll find between these thoughts and the more silence you will perceive.

So do tell me.

How do you quiet your busy mind?

Take a deep breath in and exhale

So, before I go, listen closely and remember this ONE one thing.

Your future is a thought, your past has passed, but your now is always here.

Be mindful-one minute at a time.

Hugs, Cheryl

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37-Silence is powerful and it can bring us into a state of mindfulness

Let’s take a pause for silence

Silence... the lack of noise, the lack of chaos and loudness.

Now when I talk about silence, I'm definitely not talking about external noise.

Life has got busy as less connected.

It seems that we've gotten louder and louder.

When we can become mindful and present, we can find a bit of silence and stillness.

This is when we notice that there are spaces between our thoughts.

When there is a sense of calmness and stillness, it almost feels beyond spaciousness. It feels open and intense, yet peaceful.

It also helps to make our minds feel more at ease.

Plus it gives us a reprieve from our busy day.

So how do you go about finding this silence?

Now some people have a hard time quieting their minds down or it makes them feel better having all that noise.

Some of it is learned behavior and sometimes it's a sensory issue.

But we can find our own version of silence within a busy world that can bring us some peace.

Personally, I need to have the external world quiet so I can just sit and listen.

You can do this too.

Connect with your inner stillness.

Instead, you're allowing thoughts to come and go, and the more you do this, the more space you'll find between these thoughts and the more silence you will perceive.

So do tell me.

How do you quiet your busy mind?

Take a deep breath in and exhale

So, before I go, listen closely and remember this ONE one thing.

Your future is a thought, your past has passed, but your now is always here.

Be mindful-one minute at a time.

Hugs, Cheryl

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When Mindfulness is difficult

36-Sometimes mindfulness just feels difficult.

It comes and it goes, and it's very fleeting at times and we struggle.

Even I have trouble with fleeting mindfulness so you’re not alone.

Most often, when I have to do a podcast, I have to do a lot of thinking about what I want to talk about what I want to say, what I want to get across, and it pulls me out of mindfulness.

Life in general can pull you out of mindfulness as well.

We get caught up in our lives and where we're going, what we're doing, and what we want to accomplish, and we get busy.

When mindfulness gets difficult or fleeting, sometimes we forget to give it the attention it deserves.

Plus when you're not used to being mindful, you have to train your brain to go there.

Sometimes we try a little bit too hard.

Often we think, we’re not doing it right but when it comes down to it, mindfulness is just an open state of curiosity.

Super curious about what is around you, super interested in what is happening right now.

Curiosity will help you shift into mindfulness.

It’s so simple it's overlooked as being difficult.

So the next time you feel as though you're getting stuck, and you can't get mindful.

Just take a few deep breaths, and settle yourself into that breath.

And when you open your eyes, just be curious and open.

Just allow this process to happen naturally.

Oh, Marvin the crow says “hello” too. ( you’ll hear him on the podcast)

Take a deep breath in and exhale

So, before I go, listen closely and remember this ONE one thing.

Your future is a thought, your past has passed, but your now is always here.

Be mindful-one minute at a time.

Hugs, Cheryl

P.S For the summer, the podcast episodes will be decreasing from weekly to every other week until the fall.

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