{"id":525,"date":"2005-08-05T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naturestrands.com\/home\/colors-of-life-cultivate-silence\/"},"modified":"2005-08-05T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-05T01:39:00","slug":"colors-of-life-cultivate-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturestrands.com\/home\/colors-of-life-cultivate-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Colors of Life: Cultivate Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;\">Silence means not thinking anything&#8230; I am not saying to stop thinking&#8230; if that happens then we have attained the mortality state&#8230;:D, yes its a kind of riddle our mind cannot be in a state of non-thinking&#8230; Thinking of not to think is also a kind of Thinking. But only difference in this case is we solely concentrate on keeping our mind silent state. Behind all creation is silence. Silence is the essential condition, the vital ingredient for all creation and all that is created. It is a power in its own right. The artist starts with a blank canvas &#8211; silence. The composer places it between and behind the notes. The very ground of our being, out of which comes all our thoughts, is silence. The way to silence is through meditation I feel. When you arrive in your own silence you will know true freedom and real power you possess&#8230; just take a minute and listen to the silence within us&#8230; Then we will be aware of what disturbs our inner silence. Yes now disturbances can be many things, it could be negative thoughts, memories, sensations&#8230; and when we are aware, we will know what is draining our creative power and also we will know what needs to change&#8230;on the inside! On the contrary sometimes the negative thoughts can also lead to positivity but with respect to the context of keeping our mind in silence its existence is irrelevant. But at the same time one should not try hard to seize the negative thoughts when mind is in the silent state. But not to react to the negative thoughts that come thatz the key&#8230; thatz how our mind will get free&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But this doesnt mean be silent to the external world&#8230; you will be in isolation if we do so&#8230; I feel a person should practise silence everyday at least for 5 minutes&#8230; your soul would greatly rejoice those moments. Yeah you will also be aware of your innate strength, and stopping the ripples which causes disturbance is another challenge&#8230;.going by the phrase &#8216;Practice makes man Perfect&#8217;&#8230;we need to cultivate&#8230;.woaa it\u2019s a great experience&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silence means not thinking anything&#8230; I am not saying to stop thinking&#8230; if that happens then we have attained the mortality state&#8230;:D, yes its a kind of riddle our mind cannot be in a state of non-thinking&#8230; Thinking of not to think is also a kind of Thinking. But only difference in this case is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturestrands.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturestrands.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturestrands.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturestrands.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturestrands.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturestrands.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturestrands.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturestrands.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturestrands.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}