How to Disconnect From Yourself (Without Noticing You Are) A 3 Part Series. Part 3.

Losing yourself in the thickness of busy and hurry, forgetting who you are and remembering again.

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You are reading Part III of a 3 part series.

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You disconnect from yourself when you don’t make space for stillness and solitude.

Psalm 46:10

“Be still, and know that I am God”

It’s easy to slip into a state of auto-pilot living when we move from one thing to the next without pause, without space. We used to be able to log offline and resume to our world — the one where we are presently living in — without all the screens. But now, with our devices pressing up against our bodies everywhere we go, there is no logging off. There are more opportunities than ever before in history for our minds to be filled with never-ending noise if we let it. When we make space for solitude, we make time to connect with ourselves. To understand our own thoughts, to listen to our feelings, to reflect on our days before it passes us by, and to connect with ourselves.

Everything

feels

better

with a little bit of

space.

Words without spaces become gibberish. A music sheet without spaces sounds like chaos. A relationship without space creates tension. Thoughts without space in between become loud noises in our head, if we let it.

When we make space for solitude and stillness, we connect with ourselves in a way that leaves us with more clarity, more direction, more confidence on our path. Life doesn’t come with a manual but when we learn to practice the art of solitude and we invite spaciousness into our lives, the manual appears from moment to moment.

The true practice of meditation doesn’t just happen when we find time to sit down and close our eyes. It is a moment to moment practice.

Our connection to ourselves acts as our internal compass, guiding us every step of the way. We just have to trust ourselves enough to follow the very first small step.

You cannot get to the top of the staircase without making the smaller steps along the way.

When we make space for stillness, we connect with the Divine. We connect to higher thoughts that are beyond our subconscious programming. We gain perspective from situations that we’ve been allowing to fester in our minds for far too long. We approach them differently and our entire reality shifts.

And when our perspective changes, our life changes.

God lives in the stillness. In the silence between the words. In the spaces between each thought and each sentence.

The spiritual master, Meher Baba says,

“A mind that is fast is sick.

A mind that is slow is sound.

A mind that is still is divine.”

If you have been feeling disconnected from yourself lately, I hope these words help you to bring your awareness to areas that you disconnect from yourself without even noticing. I hope it reminds you of you who you are. I hope it reminds you how wholesome it feels when you do pay attention to your inner world and when you put conscious effort to connect with yourself.

If you’ve been feeling frustrated or uneasy, I hope you give things space and time. You can revisit it later on with a completely fresh perspective.

I hope it encourages you to create more space to get to know yourself as if you were your own best friend.

I hope you rekindle the spark within yourself that makes you feel so alive and so joyful to be here now that nothing can distract you from the special bond you’re building with yourself.

I hope you can forgive yourself for all the times you’ve numbed your mind from fully being here because you were unconsciously avoiding something difficult that happened in your life.

I hope you know that no matter how busy you get, or how caught up or how much of a whirlwind your life has become— the inner you, the true you, has always been there and will always be there — patiently waiting for you to arrive.

All you have to do is remember and listen to the melody playing inside.

You got this. 🍵

Warmly,