Most spiritual practices I’ve come across, teachings I’ve read, and people with wisdom I’ve met, express that learning how to get quiet in both body and mind is an invaluable and necessary practice on the pathway towards our liberation. We are pinged, dinged and messaged to death and, unless we say so, it never ends. Perhaps it’s not a mystery why so many of us have such a hard time choosing to get still, it’s confrontational! For some of us silence in childhood was associated with tension, danger, or loneliness,For others of us we had a parent figure or sibling who filled our soundscapes with their commentary, feedback and directives, making silence an unfamiliar experience altogether. It’s true that silence is violence when it comes to advocating for what is right, it is also true that to fill all space and time with words and actions and screens is to rob ourselves of the truth, healing and clarity that arises when we are willing to get quiet and listen. To heal our relationship with silence is to heal our relationship with ourselves, to clear out old emotional clutter and to find a connection with Source. Want to get quiet together? At least a little, during the theta meditation, I’ll probably talk most of the time… we’ll do a little belief work together, around silence, around meditation and on how to find the pleasure in stillness, not as a denial of life and what our world needs of us now, but as a form of getting steady and ready to play full out!