I just subscribed to your web-site and it is absolutely great. A lot of information and sharing and so many different positive and informative articles.

I, personally, really need to slow down my chatter and become more attuned to my inner mindfulness/peace/quiet or I guess my “NOW” as Tolle would say. I’m reading Tolle’s first book now (almost done) and have read Chopra’s “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success” many times including very recently. It all just takes practice, believe me, and loving patience and not giving up on yourself like anything else in life. I’m still so much the novice. However, I’m evolving (I hope), at my own pace, and I guess that’s the way it has to be, it can’t be any other way.

Part of the problem, as has been noted earlier, is that SILENCE (to me) can seem like a waste of time when it really is your BEST USE OF TIME (when you are in the Now). Reading all of these comments and other materials, books etc. helps to imprint these new(er) ways and life changing ideas and helps me to grasp things better so that they come to me more NATURALLY, more by SECOND NATURE. HOPEFULLY, IT JUST HAPPENS MORE NATURALLY, I’M IN THE FLOW, SO TO SPEAK. I want to get away from thinking, worrying and concentrating too much about all this stuff and to just evolve into it as naturally and as quietly as possible and, of course, to accept what happens or doesn’t happen and not to be judgemental about myself or anything. Easier said than done, but hey you just keep working at it.

Not trying to be judgmental, but I hope I made some sense and was not too verbose.

Thanks
Ernie/Taso (Nickname) (One in the Same)

@Taariq, thanks for sharing how to go into the Silence. It’s great that more and more of us are finding the gaps and enjoying the peace that comes from within.

@ghanesh, thanks for introducing a new word to me – ksana. I’m going to find out what it means! No, I don’t hear my heart in that split second. It is as if time stood still.

Do you hear your heart beat at that silence? I just hear my heart beat alone. Just wondering…. what does that mean?

Close your eyes, not until you’re done reading silly.
Now stay alert and watch closely what happens when you say to yourself, “I wonder what I’ll think of next”.

That’s it, this alertness and awareness of the present ongoings in the mind halts all thought, similar to being in a life-threatening situation where your mind doesn’t bother rambling on about the days events you’re just being, only this is on a much smaller scale and the level of mindfulness isn’t nearly what you’ll hope to have in a life-threatening situation, but it’s a gap between thoughts arising.

This should be possible in any meditation session, even for beginners like us. I’m not looking for blissful peace or anything, though the gap may be described as such, to me it’s simply being mindful of my having attached myself to a thought and gently bringing myself back to the present, then watching the breath or whatever support aware that a thought my arise at any moment, when it does I again check if it’s past or future and gently come back again to the present. Rinse and repeat for 5 minutes longer than you’re comfortable with, the gap grows as gaps tend to do, as you enjoy the silence.

lol, great quote!

This was a wonderful post, Evelyn. Thank you for sharing your experiences with abiding in silence.

Much Love.

I just wanted to write to say that you have a great site and a wonderful resource for all to share….