New Life Perspective: Create the Silence

The voices in our minds, the sounds from our surroundings, they all create noise and chaos. Often preventing us from thinking clearly. Sometimes even preventing us from taking action. We’ve got to find a way to give ourselves some peace. We can drown out the unwanted noise with “noise” of your choosing. Listen to a piece of music that we especially like, turn up the volume, sing along, dance along – really become part of it. Only to realise that we’re still in noise when what we really need is silence. We can create silence by concentrating on a calming, neutral sound, let it take more and more space in your mind, until a bubble of silence surrounds us. Neutral sounds can be anything like soft waves on the beach, rustling of leaves in the wind or even white noise. Imagine for a moment that you can hear the leaves softly moving in the breeze. As you hear the rustling of the leaves, imagine watching the trees dance in the wind, notice the rhythm of their movement and the colour of the leaves. Notice the season you’ve placed yourself in, is it a warm summer’s evening or a cool autumn day? As you hear the soft whisper of the leaves, become aware of the vast space around you, be it a park or the beach or a mountain. Take a deep breath and hear the leaves as they create a silence around you. When you’re ready, come back to the here and now, roll your shoulders, wiggle your toes and slowly invite back the sounds of your actual surroundings. Give yourself some peace by creating the silence around you and enjoy your New Life Perspective.