Silence speaks...

"Sometimes silence speaks louder than words"
-The Puppet Master


As soon as you walk away having finished your conversation you look at your mobile phone to text and answer emails. Then you get in the car, make a phone call and engage in conversation. Immediately after being done (if not before) you turn the radio on. Honk the horn at someone else in perhaps the mildest form of road rage. You reach your destination and, after asked to wait for a brief few minutes, you sit down checking your phone again, or playing with an app.

We make time for everything. This way keep our brains active while our minds race. Racing in this road to nowhere, because it all ends one day...

Part of the reason why many seek Adderal, Ritalin, yoga, drugs, alcohol, you name it, is because we don't just suffer from stress, but we actively give stress the rope to hang us by the neck. Filled with this inner turmoil caused by ourselves we end up sabotaging our own happiness.

When was the last time you took five minutes, just five short minutes of your day to sit in silence, solitude, and listen to yourself without opening your mouth. Listen to the world, let your brainwaves lap the shore of your very essence and become not 'one with the universe' but one with yourself, with your inner universe.

This is not about energy, chakras, religion or auras, spells, yoga, tarot, horoscopes or reiki. This is about you giving yourself time to be at peace, in the quiescence of being with yourself.

Lesson learned: Before spending money on seeking answers, listen for them.