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Be Quiet! (So You Can Hear the Answers)
When you listen to music, several different instruments come together to create a flowing sound which is pleasing to the ear.
There is typically a baseline and drum beat, which serve as the constant that paves a roadway on which other vehicles can drive. Depending on the music, the vehicles may take the form of brass instruments, woodwinds, strings, guitars and voices.
What makes the resulting sound work is when all of those varying vehicles come together to form a flow. They compliment each other.
When they don’t, it’s just noise.
We spend a lot of time listening to different instruments in the forms of people, jobs, social media, experiences, opinions and beliefs.
Either we create an environment for ourselves where those things compliment one another and flow, or we create an environment where it all abrasively rubs against one another and comes to a halt.
It’s like driving through a high traffic area; the same 200 cars can either compliment one another, or create a grid-lock that brings with it stress and anxiety.
The music in our lives flows, so we don’t think much about it. However, the noise in our lives stops us in our tracks. It can make us hesitant or synical. It can make us waste our time complaining or arguing. It…
