Are your words better than your silence would have been?
There is a BT advert that says ‘it’s good to talk’ - well they would say that wouldn’t they? Conversely a great indian Swami once told me it’s much better to listen, “God gave us two eyes, two ears, two nostrils and only one mouth! If we would only keep it closed more, then we would be more aware of what is truly going on around us”...

It’s absolutely true what he said. We are each exposed to around 400 billion bytes of information coming in from our surroundings in any one second. However, an average person can only process 2000 of these bytes. To cope with the overload, the brain forms a restricted map of reality and filters out only that information that conforms to this map - since our reality is shaped by our thoughts we literally create a limited, restricted and false reality for ourselves. In other words, we tend to hear only that which our false self wants to hear.

This leads us on a pathway of fate rather than destiny. So how do we expand our awareness and focus on the pathway that is destined for us? The key is receiving and processing more information and this can best be done when we are quiet.

Once you begin to contemplate talking, your mind is already focussed on what is going to be said, an opinion is already formed on your reality and therefore it becomes very difficult to receive more information and expand that reality. If we talk less, the tendency is to be more open to what is truly going on around us.

Our higher selves and guides orchestrate events creating synchonicity - signposts pointing the way forward. Our connection to this guidance is just like an electrical circuit. If we don’t ‘hear’ the guidance, our guides don’t ‘hear’ us either because the circuit is broken. However if we pick up the guidance, then the signal strengthens and it becomes ever clearer what to do next.

To pick up the guidance and strengthen the signal, we have to be in constant observation of our surroundings including what we are feeling. The guidance will come in a myriad of ways, the words of the person standing next to us, through mother nature, the numbers on a car registration plate, the lyrics of a song on the radio, an advert on a billboard etc etc.

If our mouths are shut, then the mind tends to be more still (because it is not thinking what to say next!) so we notice inwardly the impact of these signs on our feelings - we notice an inner pull arising saying “this is what to do next”.

So this week, try talking less and receiving more. If you do speak, don’t surrender to idle chatter - let your words be better than your silence would have been!

I wish you all a quiet week.

Chris