I was talking to a long-time friend this week, who was sharing his experience that morning. It was one of those days where he woke up on fire (his words). I immediately knew the meaning of his comment. His brilliant mind was checking all the boxes. My friend knew the answers to dealing with several challenges. He woke up with an instantaneous knowing and the power to develop strategies for success. Then it happened. He decided to meditate (tee hee). He entered the silence gap.
Entering the silence gap is to occupy a space between thought and action. In the silence, you are not in the past or the future. You are truly present to the moment. What should have been a great outcome with his dedication to spirituality, went south. In the silence gap, he lost his fire! Instead of clear, his mind became clouded. The harder he tried to get his fire back, the more frustrated he became. This is not the result we expect from such an effort.
My suggestion was to try a moving meditation. In his eighty plus years, he had never heard of the term. It is putting your body in a mechanical state of movement in a way that allows your mind creative freedom. Walking is one great example of a moving meditation. The more intentional your meditation process involving movement, the better. I like to ask questions of the Universe while walking or biking. Then I wait patiently for the answer to come in the form of a whisper. Now that you know my secret, let’s listen together for a whisper on the silence gap:
The mind can be full of deception and self-denial. Thoughts can contain a bias connected to the past or attachments to the future. Mental mechanisms will influence behavior in ways that conflict with true core alignment. Humans create versions of themselves to be able to handle experiences. If that version is driven by wounds of the past, separation can occur.
The silence gap is an interdimensional area where time and space do not exist. Thoughts embellished by wounds from the past cannot exist in a current reality. The silence gap slows the pace of impulsive energy. Patience is regulated by breath. Breath is the bridge between physicality and creation manifesting within. Every breath contains the living spirit of ancestral guides. Creative expression comes forward in a energetic pulse connected to spirit.
In the silence gap, there is a grounding stability that prepares you for the birth of expression. A clear focus cannot be disturbed in the dimension that lacks time and space. Wisdom from spirit is revealed in the silence gap. The mind cannot provide such revelations. The rise and fall of perception is in natural order when connected to the silence. It is a place where information is constant, yet new and always refreshed.
Habitual patterns occupy the mind, but creative energy fills the silence gap. The mind seeks distance from pain while holding a desire for pleasure. Being present cannot coexist with anxiety from past and apprehension of the future. Consciousness experiences reality without illusion through awareness that begins in the silence gap. Go within to find the wisdom that knows life with meaning.
Bring joy, ease suffering and create beauty, then dance like you mean it!
Blessings, Russell
“Silence is the source of healing. When we bring things from within ourselves out into the light of awareness, a healing process happens. In the silence, we can let go of all anger, sadness, fear, loneliness and frustration.
― Swami Dhyan Giten
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