Most people spend the majority of their time in the company of others, watching television, or listening to music. We generally go to great lengths in avoiding silence and being alone. Those are two things society has taught us that have no value, so I would say most people have no appreciation or comfort for either of these. We read, work on hobbies or projects, or go find something to do to keep us from being alone with ourselves. Don’t get me wrong, these things are great in and of themselves but are often used as a crutch to avoid other things. So many of us either don’t really know ourselves or aren’t comfortable with the self we know. We create opportunities for avoiding silence and being alone so we don’t have to face what we don’t know or don’t like.
Getting to know yourself and taking that one step further, learning to truly love yourself, is hands down the best gift you can give yourself. Loving yourself unequivocally and unconditionally is a prerequisite to loving others the same way. I would venture to say most people feel they already feel this towards certain others but often when you really strip it down, I suspect there are conditions on that love. It makes sense because that’s all society has ever taught us. We came into this world knowing unconditional love but society taught us to put conditions on it. It taught us how to devalue self love and oneness, and taught us to only look at the things that separate us from one another rather than what connects us. It taught us to be critical and judgmental rather than loving, accepting and forgiving, both of ourselves and of others.
When we spend time alone and/or allow ourselves to be at peace in and with silence, we start to get to know ourselves. Not just what we like, what we don’t like, what makes us happy, etc. I’m talking about really getting to know who we are at our core – our true essence. It’s a learning opportunity that helps us differentiate what we know about ourselves on the surface from what we know about ourselves deep down. Sometimes those can be the same things but I believe most of the time they’re really very different. Silence and being alone are experiences that have so much to teach us if we’re just willing to sit with them long enough. And those teachings go beyond who we are and what we like or believe. They help us grow in conscious awareness, help us raise our vibration, and help us become more connected to each other and to Source. They’re also where we can hear our intuition and connect to Spirit.
There’s a tremendous amount of help from the Spirit world just waiting to reach us but we have to be able to receive it. Avoiding silence would be the first thing I would give up if I were just learning this. Getting comfortable with silence and aloneness are the keys to opening ourselves up to a higher level of existence.
See related posts: Loving Yourself, Spending Time Unplugged, Listening to Guidance
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