Much of your brilliance is held back, as you listen to your inner voice, The Silent Saboteur. What does yours say to you? How can you neutralise its message or tune out?
Everything about you communicates, you cannot conceal what goes on inside.
If you are harbouring anger or resentment, joy or anxiety, or a curious concoction of these and other emotions, you communicate it to the world.
Are you struggling to release your creative juices? When your hopes and expectations collide with high demands, do you feel the grip of tension tightening around you?
What stories, fake truths, do we create in our mind, that shift our mood, attitude and impact? How might these be holding us back from our potential?
How is your current workload? Does the inflow seem unrelenting and faster than the outflow? When it comes down to it, might you be involved in too many or responsible for too much?
The word ‘No’ in all languages has deep and evocative meanings, and triggers a range of responses linked to our associations to the past and how we use it today. As words go, I notice that ‘No’ is peerless in its ability to assert power.
If you have read any Buddhist work or teachings you will have frequently encountered the expression ‘The Middle Way’. The simple life guidance of finding a path between the extremes of austerities and sensual indulgence. The middle way is very simple.
There is so much noise. Traffic, conversations, the buzz of a pc or other office machinery, always on music through iPods or internet channels. Then the most challenging noise of all, that inner talk, half thoughts, emotional blurt-outs and even second-thoughts.
The ability to concentrate on more than one concious thought is more of a challenge today than ever before.