silence

Lately, I have been trying to embrace every little moment of silence that I can find...

For instance, on Saturday, I was home by myself for most of the day, scrapbooking...typically, I would turn on the radio for some "background" noise, and go about the day singing and in la la land. Saturday, I decided that I just wanted silence. I wanted to embrace it, I wanted it to force me to hear the things around me...the sounds of the house, the quality of the silence, the thoughts in my head. Most of the time, I feel like my mind is just go go go...never pausing to actually hear what my body is telling me, what my mind is thinking.

It was golden.

So, I started thinking about how I could get a little more silence into my daily life. And here's what that led to...for about three days now, I have stopped listening to music in my car. Radio off, cd player off. Just me, the silence, and and the road. It's amazing how weird it is at first...you're so used to having that background noise. To not having to think, just singing along with the music. Nothing to distract you. I find myself thinking tons of random things, all over the place. So I try to take deep breaths, center my thinking. I'm not USED to the silence anymore.

I'm just going to let it be what it is...silence. Yummy silence. A little dose will do you good! :)

Embrace those silent moments! Don't fill you life with "background noise"...