JillsWingsOfLight  February 14 2014

People are often uncomfortable with silence. We live our lives surrounded by lawnmowers, traffic, TV’s, sirens, mp3 players and horns. We are not accustomed to hearing silence and subtleties in ourselves. How could we be?

Many find comfort with constant noise and keep the TV on for long hours. Do we like distractions to avoid the experience of silence? Do we try to escape silence to avoid vulnerability? Our feelings more readily surface in quiet moments. What do we hear in the silence? Do we hear our consciousness? Experience innermost thoughts? Feel our emotions?

Mystics and spiritual leaders have long revered silence and recommend listening to “the sound of silence” is an ancient technique.

“Silence is the altar of God”
“Be still and know that I am God”.
“When we go into the inner chamber and shut the door to every sound that comes from life without, then the voice of God will speak to our soul, and we will know the key note of our life”.

Focused inner listening amplifies the sounds of our heart, circulatory and respiratory systems, and the many frequencies that travel throughout our body. There are great benefits to be gained in pursuing these subtle sounds.

Exercise

Listen to the sounds within your body. Find a quiet place, close eyes, relax, and make sure there are no external sounds.

Bring awareness to inside of your head and listen for a high pitched sound, similar to a high pitched sound on TV, but even higher.

When you are under much stress, this pitch goes up, until it becomes ringing in our ears. Most of the time it is in the background.

What kind of sounds do you hear???

soft, loud, shrill, mellow, waving pounding, or flowing sounds?
Does the sound have a color?
Temperature?
What thoughts arise when listening? Is there a message?
Do you get specific emotions when listening? Does it have an emotional message?
Do you hear more than one sound? Harmonious? Dissonant? What’s the message of each sound? The relationship of the two sounds?

Harmonizing and listening to these sounds has been reported to have a healing and harmonizing effect!