2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Silence is essential. Especially for creative people or those who want to become one. We need to be silent just as we need air, just as plants need light. If our mind is overflowing with words and thoughts, there is no place for us and we cannot hear the voice of our true desires.
Silence Practices
1. Walk alone in nature, wander through the quiet streets of the city or enjoy a cup of fragrant tea in the kitchen. If you have the opportunity, travel to pleasant places alone. This will give you the opportunity to concentrate on your feelings and feelings, will help to revive forgotten dreams that belong only to you. This practice will help you understand where your desires and needs are, and where others are. Most often, burnout occurs in those who have ceased to separate their own and others' needs (for example, a partner or company in which they work). Let it be a time of romantic encounters with yourself. Even if it is 15-30 minutes, but on a regular basis - the result will not keep you waiting. Amazing ideas will start to come to you and your emotional state will improve.
2. Practice "movement meditation" - during any action, try to concentrate on this action, and not fly away with thoughts in scrolling difficult questions related to work or problems with the car. For example, when you wash the dishes, try to just wash the dishes. Feel the temperature and fluidity of the water, listen to its sounds, watch the stream of water break on your hands. This way of being and concentrating on action will help you put your thoughts in order and, surprisingly, the answer to the question that torments you, then comes as if from nowhere. Smokers experience a similar effect: go to a special place for smoking, take out a cigarette, set it on fire, the process of inhaling smoke …
3. If in the evening you cannot sleep from a swarm of thoughts about problems - allow yourself to free yourself from them at least for a while. Take small pieces of paper, write on each separately all your unfinished business, problems and put them in a special box or casket. When you write down all the thoughts that worry you, close this box with a lid and leave it until morning. In the morning, decide what to do with it - "The morning is wiser than the evening." If you still can't sleep at night, go over pleasant things in your head, not problems).
4. In the morning write "morning pages" or in other words do morning hygiene of the mind. Buy a thick notebook and put it by your bed. It is better if it contains not bright white pages, but craft pages. In order not to hurt the eyes with whiteness. In the morning, when you wake up, do not rush to engage in dialogue with others, go to social networks, or rush to do your daily activities. Write in a notebook for 10 minutes all the thoughts that come to mind, dreams that you saw at night, feelings and states that visit you right in these minutes of writing pages. Write without thinking about the correctness of phrases and grammar, do not include an "internal critic" and do not re-read the written text earlier than 3 months after writing. This technique will allow you to liberate your spontaneity in all aspects of your life. This means that you will begin to accumulate less unfinished thoughts and deeds.
And after a while, when you free your brains from "trash", new amazing ideas will begin to come to your head.
As the saying goes, if you want to fly, give up the garbage and crap that weighs on you. Ready?
Elena Zozulya (Olena Zozulya)
gestalt therapist, coach
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