THE SILENT MIND
By Penney Peirce
In an info-glutted age, here’s how to slow down and listen for the quiet truth.
Information is proliferating at such a frenzied rate today that even with personal computers and cellular phones—or perhaps because of them—our attention is stretched to the point of shattering.
Not only do we have more facts about more diverse fields than ever before, we are also subject to a greater array of outcries and opinions. Fortunately, beneath all the cacophony of the information age, the quiet truth about our life purpose—and even about daily situations—is always available.
By learning to slow down and pay attention to what’s right under our nose, we have a chance to find our own authentic answers, unaided by media and technology.
To do that we must build our “intuition muscle” and learn to center ourselves in the present moment. It’s only at our core, in the here-and-now eye of the global information hurricane, that we can hear “the mind in the heart.”
How attuned are you to the subtle messages around you, like those hidden behind our spoken communications, or those carried by synchronicities and omens?
There is guidance available to us at all times, just below the surface of our logic, just after we stop pushing and striving, just before we jump to conclusions.
By cultivating the ability to pause and be comfortable with silence, and then by focusing steadily and listening for the first sounds or feeling for the first impressions, you can help your intuition wake up suddenly and enthusiastically, as if from a long winter’s nap.
In my many years of using intuition to sense the deep, underlying patterns in people’s lives and searching for the most accurate words to describe these subtle insights, I’ve learned to listen for that inner voice, that faintest of whispers, that nearly silent song.
One of the most important skills in developing accurate intuition is the ability to tone down your domineering, talk-addicted mind, which arrogantly thinks it knows how the world works without ever observing what’s happening in the freshly occurring present moment.
To know clearly, you must learn to observe neutrally, and true observation can only take place with a silent mind.
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