Be Quiet

This is a challenge I'm giving myself so thought I'd extend it to you. Take a day (or a weekend if you can manage it) and just be quiet. No phones, no TV, no email, no music, no visitors, no parties, etc. Stay home if that works best for you, but you can also go out - you just can't talk to anyone!

The last year, for me, has been so busy, which has been great, but I haven't heard myself think in a long time. Not good for any artist to not be able to hear that 'still, small voice' within. Now that my residency with Creative Alliance is over and I've moved into the new house, I finally have the quiet and privacy I've been craving for a while, and can see and feel how much I need a big, healthy dose of silence. Right now it sounds better to me than chocolate, which is really saying something.

So I am setting my intention to do this within the next week or so. If this is harder for you - you might have kids - lock yourself away somewhere for an hour (closet, laundry room, master bath?). Figure out what might work for you and take whatever size dose you can. It does add up.

Yes it's good to find time to write and to read, but it's also important to find time to make space - in your head, in your heart, as well as your life, for whatever belongs to you to enter. Have pen and paper handy if you must, but just listen and think. And don't expect anything momentous to happen right away. It's a process. It's a journey. It's cumulative. Let your mind clear, and just be quiet.

Doesn't that sound delicious?