When you need to be Quiet

Our world is noisy.

I get to a point where I have to withdraw to the wilderness and disappear.

I don’t want to hear another word. I don’t want another distraction.

I want peace and I want stillness.

These words from Maria Shriver resonate strongly with me:

Some weeks nothing comes to mind, no matter how hard I struggle to find the words. Other weeks, my writing just flows and flows. But even then, sometimes the wrong words flow out. Or sometimes the world changes on a dime and so does my message. When that happens, that’s when you have to take a moment to get quiet. I mean really quiet. You have to get below the noise, which is not easy. You have to try and go below your own surface. This was one of those weeks for me. — Maria Shriver

As a writer when my words stop flowing, many times it’s because my brain is clogged and/or I’m so distracted, I cannot form a coherent thought.

When this happened recently, I was overwhelmed and agitated. I threw up my hands, withdrew to the wilderness, and shut out the noise.

I had no more energy to give anything past the necessities in my life

I realized that I had been spending energy on what amounted to distractions. As a result, my brain was clogged and I was…