Solitude

I’ve heard it said in a couple audiobooks that there is great benefit from sitting in solitude. What is sitting in solitude? It’s sitting with no distractions at all in silence with your own thoughts. No music, no kids, no phones, no taking notes, no reading, etc. The recommended time for this is 1 hour. Holy cow! You might say. A whole hour of doing nothing? Yes. Now we are not calling this meditation because it isn’t. It’s just letting your mind wander and think about things. Good things to think about are how you are going to achieve your goals. Maybe think about some of the tasks you would like to get done. Or just thinking about the future in general. Someone once said we live in the future. Or something like that. Why do this? There is something that many believe is our superconscious. This is the part of our consciousness that when tapped into can help you along your journey by giving you the answers you need without thinking about them. Let’s say that you are trying to reach your goals but you don’t know how. If you can tap into your superconscious it will give you the exact answer you need. Have you ever had a light bulb moment where an idea comes to your head unexpectedly and it’s exactly the idea you needed or didn’t know you needed? That’s your superconscious talking. One way of tapping into this superconscious is to sit there for an hour doing nothing. I thought this was a bunch of mumbo jumbo until I gave it a try. I told my family I didn’t want to be disturbed. I sat in a comfortable chair in my office. I put my phone in airplane mode. Then finally set a timer for 1 hour. I didn’t touch the phone or look at the clock the whole time. I just sat there with my thoughts. The results were amazing! I was able to come up with ideas to get me to my goals with plans that were perfect. I didn’t have to think about coming up with a plan, the ideas just came to me. After a while I was beginning to enjoy myself in solitude. Like I said, you don’t take notes. But the ideas were so good that I didn’t need to. I just knew what to do. Before I knew it, the alarm went off and I was refreshed and ready to implement my ideas. Another benefit I found is that I was able to fall asleep faster at night. I have always had a hard time going to sleep because of racing thoughts. The solitude seems to have cleared this up for me. It’s like I took care of all my racing thoughts before I go to bed so that my mind can quickly shut down and go to sleep. I will attempt to do it daily if I can. I put it on my task list every day and make it one of my top priorities. I find that doing it after work was the best time for me. It is kind of like a barrier from my work activities to my home activities. It allowed me to leave work behind and focus on other things. So make time in your schedule to practice solitude. Just try it a couple days and see if it helps you. It will especially be beneficial if you have goals written down that you want to accomplish. This is kind of like a funnel for your superconscious to focus on. So get to doing nothing!