Silence is the gateway to your intuition, your higher self & god (Ep 4)

If you would like a stronger connection to your gut instinct, your intuition, your guides or even the creator aka god, it's all found in the quiet spaces in the subtle moments. How do we tap into those moments if we find it hard? Let's explore that together in this episode.

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 Welcome to the Holistic Health Sisters podcast with Wellness and Real Life Sisters, Hannah Carr and Sarah King from the Holistic Health Collective. In this podcast we're going to be sharing our passion for holistic health and spirituality and healing and hormones and plant medicines and seasonal living.

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 Welcome to today's solo episode with me, Hannah Carr. And I'm here to speak to you about silence.

I had to give it a minute there, didn't I? For you to experience the silence.

Don't you just find that silence is something that is so rare in today's busy world? The truth is there's never silence, actually. I've seen a I've seen a scientific program about it and the Earth is never ever completely silent. But it's not always detectable at the human level.

It's But you know they say silence is golden and I grew up an 80s baby, so if you're around the same age as me or perhaps a bit older you might remember there were definitely periods of, we could call it boredom, that included silence. But it really feels like it has become less and less as we've gone more into the digital era.

Because we've got a few minutes to kill. You can just slide open your Instagram, or your Facebook, or your TikTok, or your emails, or There's just always something, right? There's something to be doing, watching, seeing. listening to.

And Sarah and I are leaning more and more into the value of silence. So we just want to remind you about how important it can be and also talk to you about how uncomfortable it can be and how much we avoid it, but some of the value of it as well, right? So if you would love to connect your intuition more, or perhaps you'd like to hear The Word of God, or you want to connect to your angels, perhaps that's your belief, or your ancestors, we like to say the healed, and wise ancestors, or your spirit animal, or perhaps for you it's just your higher self.

To connect with any of those, all of those connections, which perhaps are all the same thing, right? It's all in the silence. If you go to a spiritual class and you want to learn how to be a medium, you practice a lot of silence. If you go to a Buddhist class, you And you want to learn how to meditate, you of course practice a lot of silence.

If you want to pray to God and you go to a church, they create those moments of silence for you to notice those connections. And those connections are so subtle, that unless you're quiet, you won't notice them. I asked for a sign from God today. I'm exploring that relationship a little bit more, just in my own way.

I'm not going to a church or doing it any other way, after reading Conversations of God and being very moved by that book. And as I was on my way somewhere this morning, I asked God, let me know, show, give me a sign that you're here. And I looked up at the sky and I was, you know, waiting for a thunderbolt or a rainbow or something like big and dramatic.

That's what I was looking out for. But what I actually felt, because I was paying attention, was I felt tingles move up from the bottom of my body all the way up and back down again. And I was like, ah, okay. It's subtle, it's quiet. I don't know if recording this podcast is picking that up. I said it's subtle and it's quiet.

It really is. And there's so many reasons why we can't go into the silence, right? Why we tell ourselves we can't go into the silence. The main one being I haven't got time. I haven't got time. Another one would be I've tried that and I can't do it. My mind's too busy. I'm going to raise my hand for that.

Anyone else feel like that? They're too busy for the silence. They can't do that.

Another one that I like to do is fidget. If you had done this one, so you sit down and you think, Alright, okay, I'm gonna meditate. Oh, hold on a minute. Need another bolster. Oh! Might have a cacao. Oh, it's a bit noisy. I need some headphones. Oh, it didn't light my candle. Oh, I need my journal. Up, down, up, down, up, down.

That's why they say when you meditate, it's really important to be comfortable. So often they don't have you cross legged sitting on the floor. They have you in a chair. The reason for that is for most people you can be more comfortable in a chair and you don't have the distractions of your knee or your hip speaking to you, telling you it's uncomfortable.

The only slight danger is you can be too comfortable, right? You want to fall asleep. So let's talk about when might be a good time to go into the silence. So I really believe one of the best times when our mind is the most clear. And that we usually can create the time, unless we've woken up late, is in the morning.

Especially if you do wake up before other members of your family, if you don't live by yourself. Before the day, I met someone this week and he said he gets up at 3am. Not suggesting that you should, but he gets up at 3am because There's no demands on you at that time. Okay, I'm not quite there with the 3am's yet.

Myself. I suppose that guy that I met, I believe he lives by himself. So, and his time is his own. So maybe if he needs to have a little daytime nap. Or he wants an early night, he can, and there's, you know, there's no reason that he can't. So it depends on your life circumstance at the time. But when you wake up in the morning, your mind is clearer.

Now what I've found, when I've tried to be quiet in the morning, is if I wake up and try immediately, if I stay in bed, okay, and I try to go into the silence inevitably, can't quite say that word right today I will fall back to sleep because it's comfortable and it's warm, and I'm not saying you need to get uncomfortable, you need, and you can.

It should be cold, but it might be that you just need a shower first to wake yourself up, if you like to shower in the morning. Or for me, I probably have a glass of hot water. That's what I like to drink in the morning, sometimes some salt or some lemon in there. So I might come down and, downstairs, and I might have that.

And then, I might sit cross legged on my bolster. Or, on an armchair or the sofa. And I decide to go into  that quiet space. And I'm going to remind you again what's there. Your connection to God, to your guides, to your angels, to your ancestors, to your higher self, to your intuition, to your gut instinct.

It's all there. It's all there for us. But it's in the silence.

And it doesn't have to be for long. I mean, a lot of people might try to meditate for 15 or 20 minutes. But the silence, you could just do two minutes. And if you like it there, you could increase on that over time.

So for those of you with a busy mind, and that might be all of you, especially if you're not used to this practice, I've personally found the breath is a great way into the quiet space. So for those of you that are a member of the Holistic Health Circle, you'll know that you have all your breath works and your meditations inside your online portal.

So you could just go in there. If you're not in our membership yet, then Spotify have meditations, YouTube has meditations and breathworks there's another one isn't there, Insect Timer, that's an app, but there's loads of them. You might have one already. So you're going to practice some form of breathwork and that gives the mind a job, okay?

So you're not thinking, because you're thinking, okay, I need to breathe in. You need to breathe out, and they may be directing you saying expand the belly, so you're really feeling into your body at this point, and you'll follow along with that guidance. And once you've got more oxygen into the blood, often you can hold your breath for a little bit of time and it's not difficult.

And for me personally, I find breath suspension, so meaning if you breathe in like this now, Before you breathe out again, there's that suspension at the top which you can hold for a longer period of time if you want to. For me, that is an extremely quiet place. But you can do the same on the exhalation as well, so you can breathe out.

And then you can retain the breath at the bottom. Or, even if you're not practicing a breath practice, you could just you don't even have to breathe in to hold your breath, you can just literally suspend your breath. Okay? And for me, that is a super, super quiet place. I just explained it as where my vital essence is where there are no demands on me, where I can just be the truest version of me and where I can have a connection to God or my higher self, whatever I wanna call it, or however you want to label it.

I feel that I can get answers there and sometimes we can search. So much for the answers outside of ourselves, can't we? What's the right diet? What's the right exercise? What should I do for this? What should I do in that situation? I ask loads of people, keep asking their opinion, and we don't really, I don't know, quite believe it, so I ask someone else.

But actually, all of your answers are within. But you need to get still enough to know, to get out of the monkey mind, or the ego mind. And to drop. I feel like it's down. I feel like it's down and in. Where do you feel it is? I bet you've been there before. You've been to that quiet place, that inner knowing.

Where you don't say, I think this, you say, I know this.

I'll give you an example. Say there's something that we collectively agree is wrong. Let's say, slapping someone round the face. I'm gonna giggle now because not everyone's gonna agree that's wrong. But it's probably a belief that most people hold. Slapping someone round the face, okay? Bye. If you know that's wrong, not because someone told you, but because you just know it for yourself, where does that knowing come from in your body?

If you could close your eyes now, not if you're driving, but if you're doing anything else and it's safe for you to do so. Just close your eyes, take a breath, connect with your body.

And you can either use that example, I know that it's wrong to slap something on my face, or allow myself to be slapped around my face.

Where does that knowing come from? And if that doesn't quite resonate with you, ask yourself something else. Knowing I love music. Is it in the knowing that I love music? It's maybe something that you love and it's just, I can't explain why, you just know that you do. Where does that knowing come from?

That's the place that you really want to drop down and into and how can you connect to it?

It probably is through stillness but for you that stillness might be sitting out in nature. That stillness for you might be in the breath retention. But it could be maybe floating on water like on your back, you know, that could be a really still place for you.

And so in this episode, I want to encourage you, especially if you've tried a lot with your health, with your mindset, with your personal growth, with your trauma, with your healing. If you've tried a lot, but honestly, hand on heart, haven't really. It's actually the opposite of trying. You don't need to try.

If you're trying, it doesn't really happen. It's almost like you're in the resistance to what could naturally happen. But you do have to create the time and the space, right? So if you can honestly say, hand on heart, I haven't created the time and space to do that regularly,

I think that could be a really worthwhile exploration for you. That is free. That is, I'm going to say easy. I suppose in theory it's easy, but it might not be. Like riding a bike, right? Once you know how to ride a bike, it's easy. But in the beginning, you wobble a bit, you might fall off a few times. It's not always so easy in the beginning.

But you persevere because you want the outcome, don't you? You want to be able to do it.

And I really feel that in all the times in your life where you don't really know what to do, or yeah, you're just not sure. But you are sure, your body does know, but you have to create the time to go within. But if you're not used to doing it, when you want the answer, it's not going to be easy to obtain because you're not used to doing it.

And I think a long time ago, people would have had more opportunity because more people, like churches were more full, wasn't they? So more people were going to church, for example. They were having sort of quiet space held for them.

But now, like in your life, do you have any quiet space held for you at any time? You might do, you might go to a yoga class in Shavasana at the end.

You have that time to just be. Although I will tell you, when I was, I say before my beginning of my healing journey, before I trained to be a yoga teacher, and when I just enjoyed going to yoga classes, I remember this Palate stroke yoga teacher saying to me, or the class About being in that stillness and how good it is for you and I thought why would you want to do that?

I love thinking about my shopping list when we've got that like free space at the end and I really enjoy thinking Why would I want to clear my mind from my thoughts? I just wasn't there. I just wasn't there, right? I just wasn't ready. I just wasn't ready for that, but I'm a bit older and wiser now, I guess And I know that there is so much value in it And if you can do it for yourself, if you wanted to you could share it with others You could maybe tell your kids about it, but don't Jump forward.

Don't try and get them to do it if you're not really doing it yet. Share it from personal experience.

And it's like this guy who wrote this book, Conversations with God. God was, he believes, I guess he wouldn't use the word channel, that's the word I'm using, but channeled through him. God spoke through him. But he had to be really quiet for those answers to come through. And he did say to God, he said, How do I know that I'm just not making this up?

Because this is the thing, if you connect to spirit, if you connect to any higher power. You think, how do I know that this is just not me? And God said to him, if you knew the answers, you wouldn't be asking the questions.

So he had to keep creating that time to keep sitting with seemingly his own answers. The voice inside his head that was coming up with an answer. And if you train to be sort of like a medium as well, I've been to quite a few of those classes before, you trust the answer that comes through to you. And your monkey mind says, you're making this up.

But you're a fraud. And the people that are really good at it, they have just kept practicing and kept trusting. And so that's what I want to leave you with today, to practice silence and to trust what comes up. And if you've got any brilliant tips around other ways that have helped you, I've given you just a few there about waking up in the morning and maybe not doing it as soon as you wake up in bed.

Thank you. But there's other times of days, you know, for some of you it may work in the evening or you may create a quiet space in the daytime, but we'd love to hear from you. And share that with our community, you can do that on our Facebook page, our Instagram page, we've got a Facebook group, all the places.

Let us know. But for now, I'm going to leave you in peace and quiet, maybe you could create a little bit of time at the end of this episode and just sit there and see what happens. Thanks for joining me today.

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