My Lifestyle Review workshop participants were doing some writing exercises last Thursday. There was almost deathly silence as each person pondered on what the exercises meant for their own lives. Eventually one person sat back, staring into space. I asked if he had finished. Quickly he demurred, “no, just deep in thought”.
I had fallen into the trap of treating silence as a vacuum to be abhorred, of being out of place in our fast lifestyle, an unproductive and wasteful use of limited time. I had been reminded that silence is essential for liberating our best thoughts and emotions. It’s when we allow our higher self to direct our life journey.
Workshops are a wonderful opportunity for intensive discussion. But the purest gold is mined during the times of silence.
