When was the last time you sat in silence?

I don’t do it enough, I am the first to say I value silence. Not for meditation as I lack the discipline, just as a way to detox.

However, I find myself either on social media or one of the streaming services. As I enter the next chapter of my life. Its time I embrace the silence.

Control the distractions, do not let them control me. Learn that happiness is within, I just have to give it a chance to be heard. My goal is to minimise my life and maximise my output.

Its not about just removing the distractions as these too are essential, they act as inspiration it is about control. I can honestly say at the time of writing this they control my life.

As we travel lifes’ river we meet many people, most fall away through time. A very few stay with you and even rarer are those whose frequency acts as an amplifier to yours. Like the friends who push each other higher on a swing these people push you higher through life. I am lucky enough to have met one of those people and I am grateful for that on a daily basis.

Sitting in an antceint woodland removed from the noise of modern life. I start to hear the Earth, or more accurately feel it.

Our lives are filled with a cacophony of distractions, we have everything at our fingertips. Amongst the noise is a single note so faint it can not be heard without effort, that is the challenge we are no longer listening just reacting.

It is only in silence can we re-tune ourselves to hear the Earth, You do not need a forest or a mountain you just need silence.

Silence is golden my friends.

Rhys Markham