If You Can’t Be Silent, You Shouldn’t Be Talking
Many people leak their energy by perpetually & unintentionally speaking nonsense, simply for the sake of speaking something - in a desperate attempt to not disappear into the reality of their own nothingness...
It’s an exhausting form of avoidance which allows an individual to stay functioning at a very low level of seeing oneself, while appearing wise. I know, because for the first twenty years of my life, I was the noisiest.
Excessive speaking can be a deep avoidance mechanism used to keep ourselves in a state of blindness & stupidity; disconnected from what is.
It is sold to us as a means of displaying confidence & forming connection - when in fact it obliterates both, if engaged with unconsciously.
I learned through my own process(and thereafter assisting others) - that if one can bring a deeper awareness to the purposefulness of each word they choose to consciously utter, and disregard the rest, their life will naturally clear-up on every level; as to speak so purposefully forces us to examine every piece of our conditioning, which is blatantly somersaulting out of our mouths, in a braggadocious way, any chance it gets.
Awareness of our communication also teaches us that our words(and as a byproduct our thoughts) are energetically shaping the reality of how we experience our being-here.
There is nothing more powerful than witnessing the pointless & unclear communication that’s falling out of your own mouth, in the moment it is occurring. It can be a life changing moment - At least it was for me. I realized just how uncomfortable and full of bullshit I had become.
I had zero ability to locate the true me.
What I came to realize, is that the incessant & aggressively opinionated noise machines which humans have become, is exactly what is responsible for making us more and more foolish, destructive & separated from the beauty/wisdom of this life.
We have become drunk on words, information, and dangerous communication disguised as “knowledge”.
We have learned to overdub the magnificent teacher of life with complicated irrelevance, attempting to convince ourselves that we know it all - rather than staying connected to what is already present for us, and listening to it - through silence.
The more you speak, the less you hear.
Through my own early process, I realized I actually wasn’t as animated and expressive as I had tried to be all along. But the more noise I would make, the more invisible and meaningless I would become. This protected all the places inside of me, which I was frantically tying to hide.
The more I talked, the less of me the world could see - or so I thought.
I began to reintroduce myself to silence, both internally and externally. I shut my mouth for the first time in my adult life, and It taught & informed me of so much of what I share & transmit today, in my service to the world. It’s not mine - it belongs to the silence.
It became my most important teacher, and continues to hold that title.
My teacher.
My coach.
My intelligence.
My medicine.
My love.
My guide.
Everything I stand for and represent, comes first from my relationship with silence.
Why? Because silence, in my experience, is God.
When we become silent, everything which is meaningless starts to fall away by itself. Lies and trauma are exposed. Complication begins to simplify. Communication becomes clearer. Life becomes richer & more precious.
A word which arises from your inner silence, will have far more impact, power, and truth to it than anything else you choose to utter.
Do you remember the silence? Do you remember your essence? If not...start there.
Much love,
Chris
