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Be Quiet
I highly value the times when things are still and quiet because I’m able to think, feel and process without interruption. Have you ever turned down the radio in your car when you’re looking for an address? Loud music doesn’t affect your eyesight, but it can interfere with your concentration.
As a ballroom dancer, I even find value in quiet when I’m learning a new dance routine, or trying to remember an old one. Turning on music can make it more difficult to dance, at least until I have the choreography more firmly planted in my gray matter and my body. Lately in my dance lessons, as I’m working on fine tuning details like my arm placement or my core activation, if there is music playing at the studio, I have to tune it out while I focus on feeling those details. Otherwise, my brain starts trying to process all the things and I lose focus.
Quiet is also essential for listening to my gut. Not in the digestive issue sort of way. More in the intuitive way. I’ve always had gut feelings; although over the course of my life, I’ve probably listened to them a lot less than I should have.
Intuition is one of those messages that arrives via a whisper, and in our noisy world, it’s easy to miss it.
It reminds me of movie scenes where a character is screaming at the sky for a sign. As the…
