The Healing Properties of Silence
Somewhere in between silence healing begins. Research has much to say about silence. In a 2017 Psychology Today article it was stated that silence assists in stimulating our brain growth and function, it impacts our stress levels in a positive way, increases awareness and focus and has health benefits of lowering blood pressure and decreasing heart disease (Beaumont, 2017).
In my experience, silence has been this and more. It is a space where my thoughts meet my fear and my fears meet my happiness and my gratefulness rejoices and my emotions catch up with my logic and my heartbeat slows down. It is as much of a physical process as an emotional one. Thus, allowing slivers of peace to fill into the other spaces. There within those slivers of peace I gain my humbleness. A humbleness of recognition that a power greater than myself remains in control.
This provides me with encouragement and creativity and softens my heart to make room for more love to rest there. When more room is made for love there is less room for pain. Silence has healing properties available to anyone. The challenge is allowing yourself the vulnerability to go there. To just be. Allow the feelings to manifest within you down to the depths of your core.
Emotional freedom gives you a sense of peace that only you can provide yourself. While we do need each other for support, there will be moments in our lives in which we will have to rely on our own emotional strength. This is what silence does. It is a healer. Sometimes it is just too noisy and loud in our head and we need to get out of our thoughts.
It is not always an easy thing to do but for me the journey towards healing is a method of survival in an otherwise situation that my mind couldn’t bear to understand. There are times when I most certainly fall back into the habit of resistance. The habit of not wanting to feel. It’s called running from something that will eventually catch up to you. It starts to seep out of you while irritability, quick temper, short patience, low tolerance and anger spurt out of you typically projected onto others.
Silence offers an assessment of self to become realigned with your spirit and the spirit that lives in you. For me and my belief systems that is the Holy Spirit. Silence affords me with the opportunity to reconnect with God and the universe. While he is always there, noise impacts my flow of communication with him or that space.
Silence strengthens the bond. Silence allows you to listen, accept and reflect…the 4,2,1 approach to healing. Somewhere in between silence healing begins. Allow this process, test it out, and see if you experience the healing properties of silence. May you find peace and the silver lining in healing through silence. May you chose to live a life without restriction and free of energy that does not serve you.
With Love & Light, JP
References
Beaumont, A. (2017). 10 Reasons why silence is really golden. How silence can benefit your
health. Psychology Today. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/handy-hints-humans/201704/10-reasons-why-silence-really-is-golden
