When you intentionally enter into space, into silence; and you sit with it, one of the things that begins to happen is that all those things that we keep buried down beneath the crushing weight – the purposely assumed crushing weight – of all the noise and activity in our lives, without any of that there, those things begin to stir.  And if we really sit with the silence, they can come up.

Even the mind is going to turn against us.  The Monkey Mind starts to chatter, to jam as much stuff, disconnected thoughts, whatever, between us and that silence.  But eventually, if you can get beyond it, and you can really begin to work at it – to slip into the silence, those things move. We can find ourselves experiencing old body memories, somatic releases, emotional memories.

And that’s the other thing silence will do for us.  It can act as a container.  It can act as a vessel.  And so those things that now have room to move, and to come up, now, because we’ve eliminated all the external noise – all of the external static – they have room to come out. 

And we get to see that.  And we get to feel that…