Learning to live out loud
All my life I've had secret lives, some so secret I only recently found them at all. I've lived them without knowing it by alternately listening and ignoring the voices in my head. Sometimes I wrote down what they said and interesting things came out. More often I put away the groceries, met the deadline or quietly pushed them back into silence, which became louder all the time.
I don't want to try to find the silence any more. It's too hard.
I want to learn to live out loud, to integrate the voices which express themselves in poetry, flowing ramblings like this and pretty stones arranged to delight me.
Why the stones? I don't know, but my subconscious brings me back to them over and over again. Collecting them on beaches. Making jewelry. Imagining some of the voices as little elves in the mine of my mind, plinking away on some gem of an idea or another.
Living out loud doesn't mean being noisy or obnoxious. It means living. And expressing. And sharing.
I hope you'll join me on this new practice of mine, to live out loud. Ihope over time it becomes more integrated and if there's a theme inhere, it becomes apparent.
Namaste.
PostScript a few months later: I'm still figuring this out, but my decision to speak more opening about things inside me is having ramifications all through my life. Ramifications that I like and that are helping me grow. I think most of it you can "see" through my posts on Armchair Psychology. It's an evolving journey, but I am finding that I am not alone. That there are others who find enlightenment and healing through speaking their stories, truth, perspective and mind. Thus, I think it's a universal reality that through expressing ourselves we grow into ourselves. If you are reading this, I invite you to ask yourself what truths are left unspoken and to explore them out loud. Find a safe place and speak.
I don't want to try to find the silence any more. It's too hard.
Why the stones? I don't know, but my subconscious brings me back to them over and over again. Collecting them on beaches. Making jewelry. Imagining some of the voices as little elves in the mine of my mind, plinking away on some gem of an idea or another.Living out loud doesn't mean being noisy or obnoxious. It means living. And expressing. And sharing.
I hope you'll join me on this new practice of mine, to live out loud. Ihope over time it becomes more integrated and if there's a theme inhere, it becomes apparent.
Namaste.
PostScript a few months later: I'm still figuring this out, but my decision to speak more opening about things inside me is having ramifications all through my life. Ramifications that I like and that are helping me grow. I think most of it you can "see" through my posts on Armchair Psychology. It's an evolving journey, but I am finding that I am not alone. That there are others who find enlightenment and healing through speaking their stories, truth, perspective and mind. Thus, I think it's a universal reality that through expressing ourselves we grow into ourselves. If you are reading this, I invite you to ask yourself what truths are left unspoken and to explore them out loud. Find a safe place and speak.
Posted by Dana at 8/9/2009 7:23 PM 
Categories: living out loud, Flowing, armchair psychology
Tags: no excuses inspiration ah-ha!
Categories: living out loud, Flowing, armchair psychology
Tags: no excuses inspiration ah-ha!
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Congratulations...living life 'out in the open'..is the best way to live!
Enjoy the liberating feeling of being the best that you are: "YOU"!
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Thanks, Claudia. I have good role models
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Stones are always silent, unless someone picks them up and throws them. Ecclesiastes tells us there is a time to be silent and a time to speak (live out loud). What we speak out loud reveals what is hidden in the silence of the heart. Therefore we need to be very careful what we hide in our hearts. The Psalmist reveals his heart most fully in the 119th Psalm: "Thy [God's] word have I hidden in my heart..." And Jesus said, "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."
You say you "hope over time it (this new practice of living out loud) becomes more integrated, and if there's a theme ... it becomes apparent." In my own experience, I have found the greatest "Integrator" to be the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus. Paul wrote of this in his letter to the Galatians:
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Gal. 3:28) And in his letter to the Ephesians: "[God] made known to us the mystery of his will ... which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment--to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ." (Eph. 1:9-10)
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Thanks, Uncle Gerry.
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These are really wonderful. And your stone tossing will create some beautiful ripples in the cosmos. Thanks!
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Thanks, Ted. That's the idea. The ripples are what it's all about
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There are a number of characteristics in you that spark my affection, many of which are here. XO
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