There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under the heavens.”
Wise words, and particularly relevant today in our oft time-starved lives. This of course is a choice, and comes back to how we use our time – what is most important to us, our values and priorities. And also to what we need to allow our souls to catch up when we have been travelling through life a little too fast.
And curiously, these words can be found in the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes, written some probable 3000 years ago…..
Time for solitude is recognised as being important to those highly creative types. And as we continue our meanderings through what it means to be creative, and how we can grow our own creative freedoms, this one is important.
A psychologist at New York University called Scott Barry Kaufman, from his years of researching creativity, observed this in The Huffington Post:
You need to get in touch with that inner monologue to be able to express it,” he says. “It’s hard to find that inner creative voice if you’re … not getting in touch with yourself and reflecting on yourself.”
This links back to daydreaming – giving ourselves time alone to simply let our minds wander. In our busy, gerbil-wheel lives, this seems more important than ever.
Time for solitude –
…to let our minds wander
…to still the endless noise and chatter, both internal and external, and then pay attention to the deeper inner monologue once the noise is switched off…
…to learn to stop and reflect and pay attention to how I am, what I feel, what is surfacing…
…like bubbles rising to the surface, ideas and thoughts appear….
we let them rise…
and…
follow their progress to see how they develop
…and in doing so, perhaps reconnect a little with the inner me, what I need, what I desire to create…
A time for solitude – this season, what does that mean for you and how might that help reconnect you with what inspires you and gives you life?
