Distraction is the Enemy of Health

I can’t tell you how many people I notice who just can’t stop. They have to be moving, doing, running, producing, creating, accomplishing all the time. They also have to have noise all the time as well from the radio in the car to background music at work to headphones when they walk to the television to fall asleep. Their mind is never alone and they are never experiencing silence or solitude.

But it is exactly in moments of solitude and silence that we receive knowledge about our lives, ideas about our future, realizations for our decision making and information about our health. Distraction hobbles us. It prevents us from experiencing all the layers of information and restoration that are available to us. It is in moments of silence and conscious breath that we can ask inner questions and actually receive answers.

One of the greatest blocks to healing from illness is intuitive confusion. Each person does have an innate ability to communicate with their body’s process. This is how psychosomatic illness happens but it is also how miraculous healing takes place. If you watch children, you will notice that they do not require distraction. Instead they will intently “be” with whatever they are doing often even talking as they play. As we grow up, we forget that we even could just “be” with whatever we are doing. We start being swept up in the idea of multi-tasking and speeding through tasks. We no longer concentrate or truly listen or experience true serenity.

This has significant consequences for our aging and healing processes. If you look at the more subconscious experiences that have been clinically proven to support healing such as laughter, breathwork, meditation, dancing, you realize that each of these is not distractive, they are focused and intentional. I just watched the BBC streaming of Glastonbury and Coldplay was featured. Chris Martin actually stopped a song after just a few bars and asked everyone in the audience (which was in the thousands) to put away their cellphones and experience the song in a direct way. This also allowed him to see people’s faces instead of thousands of cellphones. We have forgotten how to have direct experience. We think we need to set that aside in favor of photographing, recording, streaming or “sharing” every minute of our lives. There is no space made for actual direct experience.

And that is where we lose touch with our inner selves, the divine, our capacity for healing and the energetic change that takes place during direct experience. Chris Martin did an amazing thing by getting everyone to have, for a short time, their own direct experience while being present with thousands of others. Imagine how powerful that can be. It’s something your soul will never forget and it is a chance to imprint your being with an incredible healing pattern. Take advantage of it.