Beyond the Loop

Finding the Frequency of Silence

I’ve opened the doors to my therapy practice and clients are starting to roll in - I am beyond thrilled. As I sat in my cosy creative space the other day, I realised I had built something I saw in a shamanic meditation about two or three years ago. At the time I didn’t hold on too tightly to that experience - it was both amusing and inspiring and I took what I needed, but also felt my ego might just be getting a little ahead of itself. Nonetheless, as I sat here, creating, writing and just being, I felt a moment of arrival. In that meditation, I saw a cosy cabin in the woods, warm and adorned with books. A refuge.

And I built it. And had been building it all along. One day, while I was still working at Google, I walked into a framing shop and was brought to a halt by a painting on the wall - it belonged in my studio. I read the title - ‘Listen to the Silence’ and quite intuitively and impulsively I bought it. ⇓

Silence is an underrated quality. And in many ways it’s silence that brought me this far. Drowning out the noise around me - the technology, the job, my own head and the looping inner monologues. Along the way I found stillness and silence to listen deeply. There’s a voice within we can trust - that knows the way.

Eckhart Tolle calls this stillness or presence. He reminds us that ‘your essence or awareness itself, is not realised through thinking but through the absence of thinking.’ This is where creativity lies and solutions are found to problems.

Carl Jung called it the ‘self’ and he believed the self speaks to us through dreams, visions and meditations.

In a world obsessed with metrics and performance, we often drown out the only signal that truly matters: what Carl Rogers describes as the internal locus of evaluation.

Two years ago I saw a refuge in a meditation, a place I felt was bringing me home. At the time, a part of me dismissed it, but another part listened. I bought the painting. I followed the quiet trail of breadcrumbs until I arrived where I was meant to be.

Silence isn’t just the absence of noise. It’s a frequency where the self speaks. My little refuge is a place where I tune into that frequency - to cut through noise, chaos, stories and narratives that keep us stuck in familiar but painful patterns.

I get to do this now.
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