Listen
“Listen to the sound from deep within
It’s only beginning to find release”
Are you listening?
Are you sitting still in this time of solitude to be with yourself?
I have been wondering recently why we don’t listen to ourselves. Why we make ourselves wait until we are experiencing extreme discomfort before we pay attention. We force ourselves to get to a “breaking point” before we leave a situation that isn’t serving us or is downright harming us.
Our bodies are much smarter than our minds. They pick up on information and try to communicate with us constantly. However, many of us were taught to ignore these messages. To doubt our intuition and our body awareness and to quiet that part. We begin to shut down and grow apart from ourselves. And then people report not having feelings or sensations in their body. They are there, you’ve just grown accustomed to ignoring them.
When we turn back in to our body awareness it can be alarming. Some people will be flooded with sensations and emotions. It feels overwhelming. This is normal. This is what it is like to live in tune with your body. To allow your inner knowing to communicate with you and guide you.
Now we are all trapped inside with nothing but our thoughts, old patterns, and shadows. The outside world full of distractions is no longer there to keep us from feeling. We are being confronted with our most painful and deepest repressed feelings. And it’s hard.
But what else is there to do? You’ve no where to go, no where you’ve got to be. There is no rush, and there is no escape.
So just listen. To the unrest coming up right now. Listen to the pain, the sorrow, the loneliness. Whatever your crux is. Be still with it and allow it to give you a message. We do not hurt with no reason. There is meaning behind the pain. There are difficult decisions and uncomfortable truths that must be looked dead in the eye and can’t be ignored anymore.
And when we leave our confines and reenter the world you will have mastered this skill, of turning to yourself and trusting your own intuition for guidance. And when your body speaks to you and provides valuable information you will listen and know. I trust myself, I know myself, and I will listen.