Noise as a Distraction

[caressa]

DAILY OM

Working Through Silence
Noise as a Distraction

Our lives are typically filled with noise. There are the noises from the outside world that we cannot control, and there are the noises we allow into our lives. These noises, from seemingly innocuous sources like the television and radio, can actually help us avoid dealing with uncomfortable thoughts and emotions. However, using noise as a distraction hurts more than it helps because you are numbing yourself to what may be internally bubbling up to the surface for you to look at and heal. Distracting yourself with talk-radio, television, or other background noises can also prevent you from finding closure to issues that haunt you.

Noise as a distraction can affect us in many ways. It can help you stay numb to emotions that you don’t want to feel, allow you to avoid dealing with problems, distract you from having to think, and make it easier for you to forget reality. Drowning out the thoughts and emotions you find uncomfortable or overwhelming can complicate your issues because it allows them to fester. By tuning out noise and relishing silence, you create the space to experience and express what you are hiding. It is only then that self-exploration can begin in earnest and you can stare down frightening issues. In silence, it becomes easier to let your strongest feelings come forth, deal with them, and find new ways of resolving your problems.

When you go within without the veil of noise to shield you from yourself, you’ll be able to figure out what you need to heal. Embracing silence and introspection allows you to work through your thoughts and emotions and transmute them. Free of the need for noise, you can accept your pain, anger, and frustration as they come up and turn them into opportunities to evolve.

What do you think?

Seems like I shared a little bit about this on an earlier post. I could not be alone with myself and had to have the noise happening around me. Now I can make that inward journey when the noise and chaos is there and find peace and quiet.

[majestyjo]

How hard is it to be with ourselves? So grateful that my God has given me the gift of being able to sit in the quiet and find the stillness as mentioned in Step Three. I did a major meditation yesterday asking for help. I found myself wanting to move onto other things and had to keep bringing myself back and be still, mind, body, and spirit. Whether your God is a Christian one or something much bigger, I found that I still needed that stillness and quiet to connect to the God of my understanding.

[majestyjo]

My Fibromyalgia makes me very sensitive to noise and smells. Lately my nose and ears have been protesting. I have trouble being in the food court at the mall.

This reminds me to clean my space. Don't let things come in a corrupt my personal space. We can clutter our space with things we don't need, as well as cluttering our mind.

What do I allow in my space that disrupts my Serenity and peace of mind. For me, it can be my son. I often say, "That isn't acceptable to me. If you are going to do that, take it elsewhere."

[majestyjo]

Learning to quiet the internal chatter and trying to determine our God's good orderly direction in the mix and learning to trust that inner voice, takes time and practice.