Finding the Space Where Answers Emerge

I remember how confused I used to make myself.  My thinking mind was the only tool I knew how to use.  Anytime I needed to make a decision, I would go back and forth in mind.  I'd write list after list of pros and cons.  I could see things from all angles.  Hey - I was a well-trained thinker -- I had graduated from Princeton.

So, when I felt stuck in my career, was worried about the future and then when my first child showed up with health conditions, the only words I could utter are:  "I don't know.  I just don't know.  I don't know what to do. I don't know what I want to do with my life. I don't know how to help my child. I don't know how to heal my marriage. I don't know. I don't know." 

I was stuck.  Tied In knots inside myself.  I was trapped in the dark, scary confines of my thinking mind and had no way to escape.

Thankfully, my intuition -- a.k.a.-- the voice of the Holy Spirit started whispering, "Trish, you need to meditate.  Trish, pay attention this time.  Trish, you need to start now."  I had heard this voice whispering for many, years but had ignored it.  This time, I was so desperate to find relief from my suffering that I took the next steps.

Learning to meditate felt totally uncomfortable and unnatural.  But, I had been a professional basketball player and I knew how to be relentlessly persistent at learning a new skill.  I used my determination to show up every day for 5 minutes to just sit and breathe.  It felt far harder to sit for 5 minutes in silence than to do an entire 3 hour basketball workout.  But, I stayed focused and I knew I need to learn how to master this skill.

I am so glad I didn't give up.

I went from Mrs. "I don't know" to learning to calm the storms of my mind.  In moments of stillness and clarity, I started to notice that the answers I needed for my day, for my life journey started coming to me.  I didn't have to struggle to figure it out?  Why had nobody told me this?  Why had nobody ever taught me this?

I had grown up in a church.  I had learned to be a master at prayer.  But who had ever shown me to listen to God.  To BE STILL AND KNOW?  Nobody had guided me to this.  All I can say is -- sitting in the silence is THE BEST THING that ever happened to my life.

I have inner peace now.  I can quiet my mind on demand.  I have opened up a space inside me for answers to emerge.  I have learned that sitting in silence is like turning my radio dial to the Divine Mind of God Channel.  This channel broadcasts 24/7/365.  But who on Earth ever tunes in?  VERY FEW know about it.  And those who do are so habitually busy and in action from morning to night that they rarely slow down enough to HEAR the INSPIRED ANSWERS.

The silky silence...the inner vast unexplored realms....I love to go within and to travel.  I have flown the galaxies and experienced territories, fully guided by God, that have astounded me.  I have sat, like a little girl on God's lap and cried my eyes out as I healed the pain of my past.  I have received a flow of Divine poetry that came so fast and furious that I now know to keep either a notebook or my computer right next to me when I sit in Silence because the messages that come from BEYOND my thinking mind are ASTOUNDING.

We all have access to this friends.  The only question is, will you start to sit in silence regularly? Will you do so and persist through the discomfort of learning how to BE still?

All I can say is it is one of the best choices I have ever made.  Period.

I now realize, I don't need to know.  I can tune into God's mind via the silence and receive every answer I need. 

Feel free to think I am crazy.  I am.
Feel free to ask me questions, I will share from my own experience -- that is all I can offer.

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With all my love,
Patricia Omoqui, The Thought Dr.