Your Body and Soul Will Be Ever So Grateful

by Deanna

Especially at this time of the year we are overstimulated with too much busyness.  If we are constantly rubbing shoulders with others, rarely alone, seldom alone in silence, and overwhelmed with constant demands we can become very irritated and afflicted with what Sue Patton Theole calls “diaper rash of the soul, a red, raw and ugly low-grade pain, usually hidden from view. ”

Irritated feelings are usually clues that we need to close the door on chaos and take time to rest and replenish and restore our own souls.  For me the quiet company of my own self  is what usually soothes me, sitting quietly in my “safe harbor”.  Fanned by the soft wings of silence and solitude, I can cool my frenzy, quiet my mind, and mellow my attitudes.

White Eagle, a wonderful Native American teacher, has this to say about finding peace, “You long for peace. You think of peace as being goodwill among nations, the laying down of arms.  But peace is far more than this, it can only be understood and realized within your heart. It lies beneath all the turmoil and noise and clamor of the world, beneath feeling, beneath thought. It is found in the deep, deep silence and stillness of the soul. It is God.”

During this time of decorating, shopping, baking, wrapping, and entertaining find a place and time when you can arrange for silence and solitude.  Close your eyes and softly sigh into the silence.  Your body and your soul will be ever so grateful.