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Our lives are so noisy. There is always so much going on — people talking — televisions playing — radios blaring — and all those other distractions that are so closely associated with the stresses in our lives. All of these “noises” create so much distraction that finding a way to truly focus on the inner self — that place where stillness lives — is near impossible.

Why do we allow so much of this noise?

One reason is that it makes it a lot easier to avoid dealing with uncomfortable thoughts and emotions. How often have you given yourself permission to watch some mind-numbing television program just so you don’t have to think about some pressing problem? I know I’ve done it — more times than I’d like to admit.

However, using noise as a distraction hurts more than it helps. What you are doing is numbing yourself to what may be internally bubbling up to the surface for you to look at and heal. Distracting yourself with radio, television, or other forms of avoidance, noisy or not, can prevent you from finding solutions to the stressful issues that haunt you. It’s a way to stay numb to emotions that you think you don’t want to feel. It can make it easier for you to avoid reality.

Using this way to drown out your stressful thoughts and emotions may only end up complicating the problems of your life, because rather than working on solutions, we allow the issues to fester inside of us.

What would happen if rather than resorting to “noises”, we were to, instead, turn to stillness? If we could learn to tune out the distracting “noises” and begin to relish silence, we would be opening ourselves up to whatever we were hiding. We could begin the process of self-exploration and learn to face the frightening issues head-on. In the stillness — in the silence — we can go deeper into our true selves and leave the shallow parts of us behind. Our stronger feelings can find their way to the surface where we can see them, deal with them, and discover ways to quietly put to rest those issues we were hiding in the “noise” .

All we’re doing when we find ways to distract us from our lives, is we’re shielding our selves from ourselves. Once we can escape from the distractions, we’ll be able to know what we need to do. When we’re still, and not busying ourselves with distractions, we can hear the voice of our inner self — the voice where true knowledge exists. It is in the stillness that we can accept and see our angers, our frustrations, our pains, and also find the solutions to them. It is in the stillness that we can grow — where we can become who we truly are.

Here’s another quote to close this article…

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