If silence magnetises and plays an important role in your life, you probably know the importance of having and being in the quiet chamber. A place where you may sit in silence and explore your interior life. For those who have not seen the importance of this quiet chamber, this article is for you.
In a world where life has become a rat race, we may find it difficult to sit in silence and explore our inner world. There are things to do, and there are lots of items that need to be accomplished. Little do we know, we all sit on top of our anxieties while piling them up at the same time. Many of us who have ‘constant’ anxiety are considered ‘lucky’. Yet we dismiss the chance to pay attention to our internal world and are more focused on our external world. We drown ourselves in the cacophony and lose touch with our inner voice. You can read my other article about the importance of having privacy.
The Importance of the Silence
“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.”Rumi
When we hesitate to speak, silence occurs. It is also silence that we need to make our speech understandable. By those reasonings, we also need silence in order to create a better understanding of our speech and our ideas. To explain and elaborate things, we need not only words themselves but also silence. Therefore, silence also shapes our understanding. Problems may arise within ourselves whenever we separate or overuse those twos.
Silence and speech are tools to have good communication and the use of language itself. In fact, these two are a great dichotomy. Speech is the language for our expression, and silence is the language of our impression. Moreover, speech colours our exterior life by expressing our thoughts and ideas. Silence colours our interior life by helping us identify the impressions. Without silence and speech, we are lost in worldly translation and may express things that don’t resonate with our interior life.
Creating The Quiet Chamber
As I wrote before, living in this era of rat race may create great continual anxiety in our everyday lives. The demand of being a productive human is high and overtakes our priority to the point that we let our exterior life create those lists of priorities. Sooner or later, we will lose ourselves in the oceanic demand from our worldly concrete exterior life. That’s why we need to reclaim our list of priorities, including a priority to listen to ourselves by accessing our interior life through silence.
To create access to our interior life means creating a space and time for silence. We can schedule to have a silent moment with ourselves, whether by being alone in the room or in nature. The main priority is to listen to ourselves by creating silence so that we may hear our inner voice and later on identify and understand more about our interior life.
Silent Reflection in The Quiet Chamber
“Sometimes it is better to talk to silence than with a man.” C.K. Norwid
One of the many realisations about life is how we have been taught to seek answers outwardly for years. From books, from movies, and from people’s opinions. So instead of having self-acceptance, we seek outer validation. Instead of comprehending self-knowledge, we perform and live our personas to fill the gap within. We need to unlearn those things by making silent reflection as our daily or weekly activity. We need to have some quiet times with ourselves.
As an introvert, my inner life is what attracts me the most, and as an intuitive, it is what it is type of answer won’t grant me any satisfaction; hence, having a silent reflection is one of my needs to function well in my exterior life. It is by doing silent reflection that I come to understand myself better and more wholly.
Perhaps a simple fact about life is that we all need to learn to balance these two worlds, the interior and exterior worlds. Therefore a silent reflection is important as much as outer expression and recognition.
Learn to love solitude… to be more alone with ourselves. The problem with young people is their carrying out noisy and aggressive action not to feel lonely; and this is a sad thing. The individual must learn to be own his own as a child, for this doesn’t mean to be lonely: it means not to get bored with oneself – which is a very dangerous symptom… almost a disease. Andrei Tarkovsky on his Interview
