MONTHLY MESSAGE from TRACY, KATE & MEG

April 2008 - A Still Small Voice

How much of your day do you spend focused on the external world? Many of us are conditioned to wake up in the morning to the radio, TV, newspaper, internet or email, and immediately immerse ourselves in responding to the crowd—the clamoring of external voices both live and electronic that enter our homes and our consciousness. We start our day with the list of things we have to do, must do, and should do, often doing things for other people’s reasons and on other people’s timetables. We respond to the outside world’s addiction to speed, urgency and crisis, and wonder why we are consuming more anti-depressant, anti-anxiety and insomnia medications than any other country in the world.

There is another place to live from. The mystics call it the “still small voice” that whispers to you from within. Whether you think of that voice as belonging to your higher self, your soul, your Divine Self, your angel, guide, or God, the presence of this voice reminds you of the higher nature of your being, and of the possibility for a life of peace, hope and joy rather than anxiety fear and despair.

This inner voice can certainly seem “still and small” in a world where the outside volume is turned up all the time. We have lost our ability to attend to this inner voice as we have lost time for stillness and silence in our daily lives and routines. Worse yet, as we become less and less familiar with stillness and silence in our lives, in those moments when they intrude into the frantic spell of our day we may even experience them as unsettling and agitating. Our collective anxiety, depression, agitation and insomnia are sending us a message about the myriad of ways that we have forgotten who we truly are.

Jesuit Priest Teilhard de Chardin reminded us that “we are not human beings having a physical experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” We need to make a shift individually and collectively to moving more intentionally from the stillness and silence of our inner presence, remembering the truth of our spiritual nature. But attending to that still small voice is a choice and a practice. We must begin to recognize that life is not just about timelines, deadlines and bottom-lines. Life is about a spiritual line that connects our busy outer-self to our deeper Inner-Self, and to each other, and to God. When we take time for stillness and silence, allowing ourselves to move through and past the initial experience of anxiety and agitation, we will find our connection to that line and feel its power to change our lives.

So try to begin and end your day in new ways. Pray or meditate, walk in nature, sing, journal, draw, or sit in silence. Allow the stillness to wash over you and empty out the clutter, preparing you to listen and connect with something fuller and deeper within you.

Learn more about the Mind-Body-Spirit connection at our upcoming workshops. We will be in Alexandria on April 29 for a Create the Life You Imagine Mini Retreat and in St. Cloud May 15-16 with Hay House author and medical intuitive Dr. Carol Ritberger. Also, a new SEND cohort will begin in January 2009. Visit our website at www.threesisterspublishing.com or call as at (320) 654-0001 for all the details or to register.

Blessings,
Tracy, Kate and Meg