Silence.
Not talking.
Peace and quiet.
Just stillness.
Just being.
Just breathing.
Don’t we all long for that?
Hasn’t the world become too loud for most of us?
For me it has anyway…
Everybody is talking their heads off, talking, talking, talking and most of the time, about something they don’t know anything about. People apparently need to fill up the silence. Why? Why do we keep talking and talking and talking? Are we afraid of the meaningful quiet, of the answers we may hear when all the noise dies down, of the person we may meet when we are all alone, of our real inner person?
It must be, because otherwise why would everybody constantly be talking? For me it feels as if people are trying to reassure themselves, as if they need to hear other people agreeing with what is going on, with the choices they’ve made and still need to make. I know, it can feel as a lot of responsibility once you start thinking your own mind, once you are no longer just parroting what other people are saying, once you know that you and only you are responsible for what you do in life.
But embrace this, it’s a good thing, we need people to start thinking again! The world needs people to start acting responsibly again. We need people to have a mind of their own, a voice of their own. Get out of that noise, out of that fear-based chatter. Once everything is quiet, you start hearing your inner voice, you start thinking for yourself again, you feel that the ‘copy-paste’ of other people’s opinions doesn’t work anymore. It feels “off”. That’s ‘your cue’ to start being an individual, being you, again.
I call on everybody to start listening to that silence, to start coming home to you again, to live as you again. It’s time for a wake-up call because the noise, the chatter is spinning out of control!
I ask everyone to stop reading, watching, listening to mass media.
Ask yourself:
Why do they so desperately want to divide the world?
Why are they feeding fear?
Why are they promoting intolerance?
Why can’t we suddenly think for ourselves anymore?
What happened to common sense?
Think about the very, very, dangerous slope we’re on if people are considered dangerous just because people voice their opinion and live by it peacefully.
I ask everyone to stop for a moment, to retreat in nature, in silence, …
to start hearing reason again,
to become human beings again,
to become compassionate again,
to become tolerant again,
to be open to different opinions,
to be free of what the noise is so loudly trying to deafen us with.
Let your heart speak, not your fear of the unknown. Intolerance is always a result of ‘not knowing’, whether it is a different religion, a different skin color, a different language, a different opinion, … When we don’t know something, we are not familiar with it and so we are afraid of it and we want it gone. But that is not the solution. There will always be something ‘new’ to us, something different. And remember, when you are not familiar with something, that ‘something’ is not familiar with you either. So, who/what needs to go away…??
We are all part of this planet called ‘Earth’, we are all one. We feel most relaxed, most at ease, most happy, …when we can feel the fresh breeze on our face, when we hear the ocean roaring, when we hear the birds singing, when we feel the sun on our face, when we are one with nature. There is a reason for that. It’s because that is where we belong, where we all belong.Listen to that message, feel nature, feel the pulse of mother earth and become one with it.
Free yourself from the chatter, from the human noise, from the anxiety driven gossip, from the addiction to complaining, from the fear of not belonging when voicing your own opinion.
Be you! Let others be them too. I ask everyone to be tolerant, to live and let live. We all belong here. Let everybody have their freedom, let everybody live in peace. That is why I call on everybody to become quiet, to let the dust settle, to let the muddy waters become clear again by not stirring it anymore, by not chatting all the time, by not dividing anymore.
Breathe, retreat in silence, retreat in nature, let go of the fear, let go of the intolerance.
Do what makes you happy, what makes your heart sing, what expands your energy, LIVE in love and let everyone else do the same!
Thank you all for reading me.
Katrien
author of Less is Yes!
www.lifecoachwomen.be
www.lannoo.be/nl/less-yes