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HEARING The MUSIC within the SILENCE…
Enjoying the magic of silence…This is another way to fall in love with your Self, this magnificent Being that is 24/7 at your disposal. I spent this past weekend in silence with a group of friends and thus I gave myself the gift of witnessing new layers of life unfolding from within. I usually like spending as much time as I can in silence each day, but these two silent days in a row allowed for a new opening in my heart space. The practice was to listen more and see what happened when I knew I could not speak out all of my thoughts.
Wow… are we really in touch with how many thoughts can visit us each hour? It was amazing to observe the flow of all feelings and thoughts as if they were clouds in a vast sky, merely passing through…and I didn’t have to do anything about it. I was starting to question my mind in new ways…
One exercise that our small group decided to do this weekend was to experience a walk through a wooded park. However, this was not to be an ordinary walk. We were to open our eyes wide and keep a steady focus witnessing everything around us and hearing the sounds with our skin and body, not the ears. Walking slowly and keeping distance between each other, we entered a magical forest journey. I could truly feel like a child who was content with all that she could discover step by step: my eyes would fall on each rock and leaf, I would appreciate each nuance of color and texture…the glittering drops of water resting on green leaves would cause me to smile and realize the beauty of divine nature within each water drop (for I knew I was the water drop within this splendid ocean and yet the whole ocean’s beauty was reflected within this one drop of my own Self)…
The trees had majestic presence…one huge tree made such an impression on me that I felt it was ready to present me with an open door right there as I was walking towards it admiring its being. As we all came out of the woods, we sat near a tiny pond with turtles and orange fish…Seeing the ripples in the water, we could say that sky and earth had come together in the mirror of that pond. The fish were swimming and dancing in the sky that was being reflected in the fluidity of water. Witnessing these small beautiful moments was enough to allow the mind to rest for a while… The longer the silence enveloped me, the easier it was to accept its embrace and love my own movement through it. I came out of that weekend experience with a couple of new questions:
Do we really need all these words to express the beauty of what shows up in each moment for us?
Couldn’t just seeing it and feeling it be enough sometimes?
I was thrilled to discover that it was enough for me…
No, I did not need so many words at all, and there was a sense of depth showing up in each moment
just because I intended to greet that moment in silence and take it all in…
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