How important is the space located between thoughts? Some like to fill it with noise such as, “Um or Aaa.” Others stare through you giving nothing to a situation. There could be anger, a dip in energy, a bead of sweat caused by nervousness and or reason to fear failure. Caused by a single space located between thoughts.
Do you know the cause of that pause?
A continued distraction…not being aware because you’re taken away by other shapes and objects—thought form is an act of thinking without being aware of yourself.
When space is created, we naturally gravitate to it. We seek it because all too often its worth being sought. Our daily walks are filled with discontent, worry, anxiety, depression and despair and then suddenly there is an act of inner peace…space between thoughts.
Because I put so much faith and trust in synchronicity experiencing a pause adds cause to the effect. I’m far from being alone; music or the simplicity of drums or the sound of rain casually falling through the trees puts a break in the way we speak. Rather than ignore it or give it a dirty name…give it a different rhyme or reason: it’s a sense of well being.
Well being? Is it the missing sixth sense? We’re trained since birth to chase the paths that lead us to everything that offers sight, smell, feel, sound and taste. Outside of Yoga who has trained your method of living to locate what Eckhart Tolle calls, “Alive peace?”
A break in conversation is subtle. But is it heavy enough to make a difference inside an already consumed way of living? In India they call it ananda…which means the bliss of being.
Whatever age you agree to be on this day, that is the amount of years you’ve been taught to quickly correct an um or aa. You’ve been conditioned to pay attention to form, “This is how you are to speak properly, clearly, without being made to feel like a fool.”
Spend a day with me inside a recording studio and somewhere along the way I’ll explain my addiction to listening beyond sound. The studio monitors are cranked so loud each word is felt twelve city blocks away. I’m far from being deaf…by getting close to creative flow I’ve learned something incredible exists beyond what we call sound.
Eckhart invites people to study the background of each experience. Warning: If you elect to chase it like a summer mirage on a long drawn out highway you’ll never touch it…all enough time to fall witness to stillness, the sweetness of being allows your lungs to breathe.
Runners get there by tossing their balance forward then spend the next two to eight miles trying to catch up. Gymnasts feel it while in flight while a airline pilot lives within the rush of lifting tons of metal beyond the earths shape giving it life inside a separate realm of escape. When you’re able to sense it directly within yourself, it deepens. Without warning it becomes your path to respect sound, sight, touch, feel and smell.
Beauty isn’t always located in the gentle curves of a freshly blossomed deep colored rose.
I make marks in my daily writing when the sixth sense is being experienced. I quickly sketch five straight lines then shove a “G” clef onto its surface. That the writer’s way of notifying the rest of me that music is being heard someplace different. You’re not expected to catch it. So don’t question it. Layout a large number of daily entries and the path becomes visible to the once blinded eye.
Stevie Wonder recently explained on national television that it shocks him when music calls him back to the page. Especially when it was assumed finished. Pieces that were signed off in the late sixties are extremely important to movie producers inside this new millennium, not because antiques are golden but the message is unstoppable and far reaching.
Don’t look at a project as being lost or gone, compared to a skyscraping Redwood in California your six week to six year break from something you once loved is nothing more than a sliver of time shoved aside like a gasp of air or a sudden pause inside a well delivered conversation.
Allow silence to shape your being.
Tolle believes the best happiness isn’t caused by a person, place thing or event; it’s created by a moment of inner space. Little things create little space…unconditioned consciousness comes to life where you’ve taken a break. Learn to listen to it while respecting the joy of being.
Feel like giving it a test? Say only this: I am.
Each time you say it, shout it, whisper or think it…there is going to be silence. Sense your presence. It is untouched by young, old, rich or poor, good or bad or any other attributes. It is you.
I am……………………………………………………….
Learn to listen beyond sound.
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