Today I was reading the words of Sören Kierkegaard, a XNUMXth century philosopher, who said that the modern disease cure was: Create silence. Today we share the reflections to which the thought of this Danish philosopher leads us. Since it is an indisputable reality.
We live in a noisy world, in which you do not stop, in which you do not listen. Even the images are full of noise. All of this affects us emotionally, of course our children as well. It is dangerous for them to let them grow without learning to create silence, without knowing how to listen to themselves.
Create silence and learn to listen
One of the main evils of our time is that we go too fast and we don't stop to listen. We rarely receive complete information and create opinions based on it, repeatedly falling into avoidable errors. Sometimes we do it with news, without properly checking the sources, others, with people.
It is very common for us to talk to our children or our parents, friends or family, seeming that we are very attentive to what they tell us. We make use of active listening and the sender perceives that we are understanding the entirety of his message. However… How many times has it happened that you don't remember making an appointment with them because you weren't really listening? It happens continuously. It's a world of rush, stress, mental exhaustion, if we don't stop, our mind disconnects on its own. We need silence, one way or another.
Self-esteem, self-sufficiency and assertiveness, three reasons to listen to yourself
These are three facets that will not develop adequately if the individual does not know how to listen to himself. They are small pieces of the complex puzzle that makes up our personality. However, small as they are, they are of the utmost importance. Just as we cannot understand a whole face if the eyes are missing, we cannot understand a whole and happy person if they lack self-esteem or are emotionally dependent. Even less if it lacks assertiveness and thinks that his opinion will always be below that of another.
Our children need to feel safe, complete and with el criterion enough to make your own decisions. Just as we also need it, sometimes noise generates doubts and that is why it is essential that we create our own moment of silence.
Listen to yours, if there is no silence, look for it
We know that it is difficult, in this mass of jobs, classes, extracurricular activities and maddening noise, sometimes it is practically impossible. But your friends, your family and yourself, you deserve the silence, listen to you. That will avoid misunderstandings with others. Your children will feel more cared for and you will feel better about yourself, because really listening is the basis of communication and communicating is essential for human beings. It is good for yours and also for you.
Create your own silence
Actually, it is very difficult to create silence among all the noise. But silence for you can be a song, it can be a painting, or even a person. It's anything that puts you in touch with yourself, with the infinite, with your own thought or even with a divine voice. That which connects you with your interior, with your own self, which gives you peace and clarity of thought.
It is a healthy lesson for our children to teach them by example to take care of their emotional stability. Let them see in us what it is to live listening to our own silence, that which leads us to hear our own voice, the reality of our dreams and desires. This is what will illuminate the path of our life, which will always lead us to the right decision, or at least the one that best suits our conscience. It is the magic formula to sleep more calm and happy with what you do, knowing and fighting for what makes you feel really satisfied.
Ultimately, we should all listen to silence from time to time. You have to silence the noise and the rest of the voices and feel the peace of doing what you think, What it feels like. It is essential to find our own peace and pass it on to our children.