Time for "My-Self"

Find out a little solitude can bring huge difference. Seclusion is soul's holiday. The time when your are all free for to do something for someone but able to surprise and delight yourself instead. If we are always focused on external situations we will miss opportunities for inner growth and renewal.

As Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul, says, "We seem to have a complex about busyness in our culture. Most of us do have time in our days that we could devote to simple relaxation, but we convince ourselves that we don't." It seems there is always something that needs doing, always someone who needs our attention. "Unfortunately," Moore says, "we don't get a lot of support in this culture for doing nothing. If we aren't accomplishing something, we feel that we're wasting time."

Our success measure in terms of acquisition and accomplishment and if no one is around we might keep ourselves busy watching Netflix or stare screen of cell phones, avoid spent time for ourselves cause of fear that what might find inner-self. Believe me, we are more creative when we are alone. In idle time often real inspiration comes.

 "We live in an extremely externalized culture," Moore says. "We are constantly pulled outside ourselves—by other people, by the media, by the demands of daily life. Nothing in our culture or in our education teaches us how to go inward, how to steady the mind and calm our attention. As a consequence, we tend to devote very little time to the life of the soul, the life of the spirit." We need to balance the pace and intensity of modern life with periods of what poet May Sarton has called "open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there." Alone—in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness—we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.