Stilling the noisemaker
I meditate daily. It brings me such peace and has a profound calming effect on my day.
The other morning, I went to my bedroom and sat in my favorite chair. The windows were opened so that brought in a cool breeze. The sun cascaded upon the room which felt warm and cozy. I hit play to my favorite music interlude and began to breathe.
Instantly I felt myself sink into a deep state of flow.
And then the noise came in loud. Very loud. It was ridiculously loud.
My first thought was, “Why did I open the windows?” It was much quieter when they were closed.
My next thought began to chastise the noisemaker. “Why do these workers need to start so early in our neighborhood? Everybody is always getting work done on their houses. Can’t we have some peace and quiet?”
In the noisy chatter in my mind, I was still very peaceful and could see the auric colors I typically do when I meditate. A color of green easily flowed in.
I got a bit curious about the noise and worked to let it go. And at that moment, I realized the noisemaker was my husband using a machine to do some lawn work in our front yard. I began to laugh at the coincidence of this masculine energy debunking my quiet state of being.
This got me thinking about noise and disruptions, and how we use them to deflect the inevitable potential of our growth.
The practicality of “I have to do this….I need to do this…I can’t do this….I should be doing this…” often isolates us from a truer potential.
Don’t we feel important to a cause as we use this verbiage in our daily dialect? We become the great showman and bringing life to some of the most mundane tasks.
Our minds are powerful and their mission is to orchestrate a narrative that can keep us safe and beyond harm. In doing so, they often limit our true human potential because the ego state of mind can only narrate a limited version of what is happening.
This is scary. This is not scary.
This is like the other incident. This is different.
You don’t want this. You do want this.
You get the point.
Each of us can dig deep into a reservoir that sits at the lowland of our consciousness where the river flows. This is where we meet our most wise sense of self and where growth is not only possible, it is inevitable. It comes naturally and organically.
To get close to this sacred sanctuary within, we must learn to quiet the noise and get still amidst the distractions. We can honor the reality of practicality and logic while we are absorbing a flow of higher consciousness. This is how we cultivate a wellspring of possibility for every circumstance.
My husband and I have a house that is more quiet these days so that has given us the moments of really dismantling the belief systems and limitations that have held us back. It is in the quiet stillness that God (or whatever higher power you find as a source) can render a reexamination of what was to what is now. Everything lies in the now.
Eckhart Tolle, in his famous book, The Power of Now, tells us “Humanity is under great pressure to evolve because it is our only chance at survival as a race.”
We are operating with the fuel of a living death. Dying alive as we motionless move through our days and distract from inner connectedness.
The other day I was having coffee with an acquaintance and I noticed that following her asking me a question, she would look at her phone. I’ve noticed this in younger people, too. I think much of this is due to our advancements in technology. We are estranged from human connection and the deep understanding of how good it feels to sit in shared energy while conversing value-driven topics of interest with each other.
We do everything while doing something else.
Tolle states, “Unconsciousness and knowing cannot coexist for long.”
When two people or a person meets a situation, there is already an energetic vibration that becomes activated to coerce harmony, balance and this is why we often either feel good or not.
Everything that happens comes to give you joy, self-discovery or learning. Resilience is the opportunity to give you the space to decide which of these the moment or experience is offering you. The situation or relationship has been brought into your field of awareness from your previous thoughts, beliefs, the things you say, what you do, and who you are.
I decided the noise from the lawn work during my meditation was here to show me how I am believing the self-destructive and intrusive thoughts from my younger years. I have been having some flashbacks to older times and they have circumvented me into a frozen state. This learning offered me the potential to reexamine what I was believing and get curious about its origin.
“Is this even mine to believe anymore?”
David Cameron Gikandi wrote in his book, A Happy Pocket of Money, “Nature works with effortless ease and precision, with infinite organizing power, in incalculable ways, without resistance.”
So why do we believe otherwise?
Because it seems easier and safer to remain tightly curled up in our narratives. They blanket us from the unknown. They support logic and reason. The mathematical equation equals something.
Inspiration, intuition, and imagination simply don’t often have foundational reasoning. They cannot be made possible by logic. They activate an abundance of potential and possibility. Frankly, we are not conditioned to think, feel or act this way.
We must intentionally choose to be inspired and give our perception to something bigger and more intelligent than us. Individuals who think they know it all, limit the availability to being inspired.
We agree to give space to an intuitive knowing that far exceeds what is reasonable and sensical. Individuals who only use knowledge of facts and figures as a scientific basis for decisions and choices keep themselves small in the sense of a broader and more animated existence.
When we cannot imagine anything being different, we are caged into stagnate living and this is our living death.
We were all taught how to use our basic sensory system to elevate our learning potential. We must now choose to be shown how to use inspiration, intuition, and imagination to expand our human potential.
The Law of Pure Potentiality helps guide us toward living our day-to-day lives in a state of unbounded creativity and infinite possibility. You don’t know how the next moment will occur.
What guides your decision-making and your choices? What activates a certain feeling? What causes you to see circumstances from a limited dimension?
Why do you believe the way you do? Are you leaving room in your thinking, feeling and acting for a wider, broader, and bigger perceptual reality?
The human potential is far-reaching.
Years ago, I was told I could not run again because I had blown my knee out skiing. For so long, I held back any exercise that required me to move the knee in the similar fashion as when I had my ski accident. I have on a couple of occasions surprised my own spirit and run, hiked up cliffs that required my knee to move in specific ways, and have strengthened it in yoga poses requiring balance. Interestingly, the potential of my body is far-reaching. I could probably even return to skiing if I wanted. (Truth be told, I like the time to myself when my family skis. PS – Don’t tell them! Wink. Wink.)
No one is bound to what has been done before or to a belief system that is outdated unless they choose to be in that state, whether unconsciously or consciously.
What often keeps us in outdated mindsets is the need for survival and that survival is an internal power that is taught to be activated successfully when external validation approves.
In your day-to-day lives, reassess how you interact with feedback, whether it is from another person or social media or from a situation that keeps surfacing. Are you immune (meaning you shut down and tune it out as if it does not exist), are you fearful (where you work diligently to control every aspect and detail so the results appear manageable), or are you open to facing your full grace with a self that is unlimited (this is how everything is meant to help you learn something, self-discover, or experience joy)?
Learning, self-discovery, and joy are more fun and include way more laughter. Life feels lighter, even amidst the challenges.
My husband and I laughed about the lawn machine that created such havoc during my meditation. The twisted sense of humor can often guide us to what matters and the heart of what we are here to do.
There was a time years ago while I was meditating and one of the kids came to ask me a question. I flipped and began yelling about my time in this space was needed and no one was to interrupt me. I have learned much since those early days.
“The obstacle is the path.” -Proverbs
Whatever situation, experience, challenge, and relationship is brought to you and for you. Use it to the highest of your ability. Transform your human limitation into your human potential.
There’s always more going on than is playing out right in front of you.
Believe in more.