Time to Find You.
Do you have a clear sense of who you are? That might sound strange, but as I work with people to bring them to an awareness of themselves, and find the directions in life that are most authentic for them, it’s becoming more and more evident that many of us don’t have a clear understanding of who we really are.
Please understand, that’s not a judgment on you (or me), rather it’s an observation that we’ve become too caught up in the electronic cacophony that seems to rule our days and intrude into our nights.
It began with radio and television, and has exploded with the growth of the internet, so that we lost the most necessary ingredient that is vital to the survival and blossoming of our soul.
Time, and the space to think quietly.
I read a statistic recently that a teenager now sees the same number of unique images in 1 month that a person living 100 years ago would see in their entire lifetime, and I suspect that even that number is out of date now.
We’re bombarded with so many changing messages, idealized scenarios and perfectly manicured manifestations of everyone else’s lives that we feel like we are constantly trying to keep up with an impossible dream that moves away from us with every passing moment.
When was the last time you unplugged, sat in nature and just breathed?
We all need time to reflect on the things that have happened to us, and integrate them into the fabric of our mind, judging not only the event, but the meaning that we take from it, as determined by the filters we apply to our judgment, born out of the needs and traumas of our soul. So many of us react without ever understanding how or why we are thinking.
And the best way to see how we are thinking is to stop doing it for a while :)
Because too many people are living their lives in the constant chaotic confusion of a fractured sense of self.
Not knowing who they really are, or what they really want, but desperately searching for some form of healing in their soul, so that they might once again find the peace that has eluded them for far too long. Yet they seek and search in vain without, not realizing that the answers are only within.
But to hear them you need to listen quietly, and take time to hear the answers whispered in the silence.
The answers are there, I promise you. They can be hard to understand , especially if you are new to the art of self exploration and understanding. At first, they might not make any sense, or seem counter-intuitive, but once you begin to seek in silence, accepting the answers without judgment and without fear, the truths will come running out to meet you.
And in finding truth, you will find yourself.
— Dr. Alan Barnes
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