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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Silence is not to be feared, it should be sought, and welcomed with open arms.  It is in silence that I find some of my more interesting thoughts, great ideas, and funny jokes, and for that I am grateful.

The world is a busy place filled with so many people who do their best to avoid the quiet places in life, because without noise, there is nothing there to entertain the brain but themselves, and a lot of people don’t like themselves.  They are stuck there in their new quiet place with nothing but their thoughts, and until you begin to like yourself, its like being stuck on a long plane trip with the one and only guy who seemed to have one too many coffees before he boarded.

If you were like me, then the thoughts that would come flooding at night as you lie down to go to sleep would end up keeping you awake, so what did I do?  I turned on the television, and fell asleep to some late night show.  Or, when I would be alone cleaning the house, doing something I clearly did not enjoy, my thoughts would go to a dark place.  I would start to think of things that upset me, and how I would address that the next time I saw that person.

During these moments my vibrational energy would be low, and my thoughts negative, and eventually I would attract more of these things into my life, because I gave them so much thought and time.

Now in silence I find time to raise my vibrational energy.  I use these times to “meditate,” or think about topics I would love to write about, ideas I have for comedy routines etc.   I even noticed yesterday when sweeping and mopping the floors, instead of going to that angry place, the whole time, I was either humming an upbeat song, or my head was filled with positive thoughts.

Some of my favorite moments now, are to just go into my room and lie in bed in the dark, and meditate and do visualization exercises.  I even find time to do this in my car during lunch at work.

Just a quick story and I’ll wrap this up.  Sunday, I had to go to lunch a bit earlier than I’m used to.  I usually like to wait until almost the six hour mark before I go to lunch, because then I have such a short time left for work and the rest of the day goes by rather quickly.

Well, this Sunday right before I went back into work, I turned off the music I had been listening to, and ran quickly thought my mantra, I went back inside, and went right to work.  Next thing I know, I had spent almost four hours humming to myself, and it seemed like minutes.  My day was over, everything flowed so smoothly, no real mistakes, nothing to get concerned over, and I still feel that it had everything to do with taking even just a few minutes of silence to prepare myself for that afternoon.

I hate to come off as preachy, but when I tell you that my life has changed so much by just adding a few little “tasks” each day to my routine, I know it sounds crazy, but the only way I can prove it to you, is by suggesting you just try it yourself.  Wake up and write down what you’re grateful for, thank out loud whoever, or whatever it is you believe in that helped provide those things in your life, and then spend five minutes “meditating.”  Don’t just do this and look at it as work, find some excitement in it, do it every morning knowing that this will change your life, then come back in a week and tell me how things are going.

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