On Finding My Voice

On Sunday we had a lovely class discussion at our Middlesex University London evening class.  It was on the topic of finding one’s voice of communication.  The discussion was slow and thoughtful, a metaphor to us finding our voices within the group...

I have found that to find my voice, I must first find my silence...

In my silence, I must start writing...

When writing I must find calmness and allow myself the time to write more...

Some ideas would begin to bloom... but I needed to be calm enough and quiet enough to hear these ideas in my head...

Giving myself time to write and allowing myself to write for exploration without judging the quality...

In my journal my entire inquiry and answers to my research where already written, it just took time and silence to let myself hear them...

My voice has always been here, but muted by excessive activities and meaningless distractions.  Finding my voice is about giving myself my time and my space in the world.  It is about the unimportant moments, the resting time in between structured activities, thinking and sipping coffee...

It is about patience, calmness, discipline, art, creativity, humility and the most powerful silence.