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I have been making it a practice to take time to simply be present and silent when I wake up in the morning. Before I get up, I simply remain in bed, completely silent, and simply “listen” to whatever thoughts happen to pass through my mind. As the thoughts enter my mind, I simply observe them without judging or internally commenting on them. I just simply listen.
The other morning, they came — the thoughts came one after another, linking ideas and lessons learned from the past that seemingly never would have been otherwise connected, into correlations that I never would have put together if I would have consciously sat down and brainstormed ideas. I grabbed my iPad, which happened to be next to the bed, and just started noting everything that flowed through my mind. There were ideas to implement in the future, and connections from past events to future innovative strategies; there were lessons learned from books and discussions that converged together in a symphony of fluid thought, unlike anything I had ever concocted before.
After looking at the notes a few days later, I was absolutely stunned as I read the words and ideas I captured. I have enough ideas to keep me busy for years, and I am confident that more ideas will spawn from those ideas — ideas that will no doubt change my life forever in a very positive and profound way.
The power of simply being still and “listening” cannot be underestimated. In a conversation I had last week with Author Angela Artemis about intuition, we discussed how being silent and tapping into our intuition leads to great ideas coming seemingly “out of the blue.” When we are silent, we allow ourselves to connect directly with our subconscious mind, and through that silence we can become consciously aware of the workings of our subconscious mind — the workings that we are not aware of during most of our day.
Whenever you are in need of creative solutions or a creative idea, don’t be afraid to consult with the “genius” who speaks to us through silence. We all contain one; it’s just that in our ever so hectic lives we are too busy and our minds are too turbulent to hear it speak to us! As Deepak Chopra states in his book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, “…if you do not experience a stillness in consciousness, if your mind is like a turbulent ocean, you could throw the Empire State Building into it, and you wouldn’t notice a thing…When you are constantly evaluating, classifying, labeling, analyzing, you create a lot of turbulence in your internal dialogue. This turbulence constricts the flow of energy between you and the field of pure potentiality.”
I urge you to take some time to call upon the “genius” within you who speaks to you through silence. Maybe you have a problem for which you are having difficulty finding a solution; maybe you need to come up with a creative way to accomplish something; maybe you feel your life is stagnated; maybe you simply need to reduce your stress and anxiety. Whatever your goal, that inner genius that can be found within you can be your ticket to accomplishing whatever it is you want in life.
Take time to be still; take time to listen. Find that inner “genius” within you, and explore the possibilities of pure potentiality.
