I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don’t know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
-Christopher ReeveI have been a fan of Christopher Reeve for many, many years. This quote just cinches it for me. I think it can be so hard to shut out "the noise and clutter". Maybe that's why I am such a fan of decluttering -- it's a process I try to do almost every day, lest my life become overtaken by miscellaneous garbage. Noise is another one -- it doesn't take much to throw me off. When I meditate, I try to have white noise on, to filter out all the extraneous ones. It's hard enough to declutter my brain to listen to that internal voice!
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White noise, ocean sounds--right now I'm fond of the windchime/birdies singing CD that I play.
It's not so hard tuning out the noise today.
It's the 'listening' to what I'm actually hearing.
I try to keep the clutter away. It just seems to pile up throughout the week. Just this morning I threw away a whole week of junk mail.
One of the things that I rarely actually do as often as I should is journal. The process of freeform writing tends to clear out a lot of that mental clutter for me and gives me a fighting chance to actually hear that quiet voice that's patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for me to shut up and listen.
Now, whether or not I actually follow its advice is another thing entirely. :)
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