Let’s you and I have a coffee together whilst I reach out and share my thoughts with you. Let’s sit on a bench by the sea together in stillness, just listening to the sound of the waves, looking out at the ebb and flow of the tide and reflecting…
Life Lesson 4 – Less Noise, More Love
Hmmm LESS NOISE... Wow, less noise can be scary. Did you notice that noise gives us a sense of safety and security? When we are lonely or sad, when we are alone for even a brief moment, we almost immediately turn to our cell phones, switch on some music or the TV… we surf the net, go to our favourite social media platform or run somewhere as fast as we can to ‘drown out’ that void... our sadness, our loneliness and our fear. It's hard to just sit there... with ourselves.
OUR FEAR… what are we afraid of? Perhaps… We are afraid of listening to our Inner Voice. We are afraid that if we stop and listen to our Inner Voice, it will tell us things we think we can’t handle… such as how broken and hurt we are, perhaps lies we keep telling ourselves, perhaps false masks we wear because we are so desperate to be loved and accepted; or how to be our true selves without living up to others’ expectations… scary stuff! You know, facing the dreaded darkness within, that we all so conveniently negate…
So we drown it all out with ‘noise’ of all kinds because this is what the world teaches us. This is what the media and pop culture tries to brainwash us with. We use all the earthly illusions that we find to do this… Everyone has his own “drugs of illusion”, what are yours? Fashion, fame, a hobby which borders on obsession, alcohol, sex, sport, friends, partying, religiosity, an unhealthy relationship, power, status, career… In essence, these can be good things, but only if they enhance our life, not if they alienate us from it.
We can run and we can hide… but we can’t run forever. One day we’ll get tired of running and the noise will stop and we will be left in silence to face our Inner Voice…
Our Inner Voice is actually an awesome voice! :D It tells us to seek less noise and more love.
That is what we really want – more love. That is what we are all forever seeking – as children, as teens, as adults… we want love. And deep down we all know what kind of love we want. Real, true, authentic, genuine unconditional love. Not the falsities portrayed in Hollywood movies, music videos and cheap songs. No, it’s something more, deeper, authentic, raw and real. It’s that knowing deep in your heart that someone genuinely cares, understands, loves and appreciates you for who you really are; for your light and your darkness...
So our encounter ends with a question… which do you want - more noise or more love? And where does this love begin? It begins from within yourself… and only then can it be found in our connection with others.
Let’s keep talking more about this next time shall we? :) Until then, “Peace out awesome soul!”
Blessings from Ella