Remembering Our Own Voices and Dreams
Newsletter from July 7, 2025
Hi dear student,
Can we remember our own voices and dreams?
Most of us are addicted to little handheld devices that bombard us with random information, messages, music and commercial ads we have not consciously and carefully selected. The lure of seemingly cost-free communication with loved ones and clients has even the suspicious ones among us succumb to the lure of the online genie.
What to do? If we thought those incredible tools would unite the world in a great effort to establish world peace and counterbalance global warming, we were obviously mistaken. If we thought that true information would penetrate ignorance and that history lessons learned would avoid the repeating of the same horrendous human crimes all over again, we have been disappointed.
That was the dark part of my newsletter today. Now comes the peptalk:
Most folks on my mailing list still have many choices! We can heal the phone addiction and start f.ex. by choosing a “traditional” alarm clock to wake us up in the morning to avoid the instantaneous cyberspace bombardment at least until we have taken the time to breathe into our own being, unpolluted. We can choose to meditate and read a book. Remember books, they are awesome. Remember meditation and mindfulness, yes, also you can reap the proven benefits.
If we allow ourselves to be surrounded by a constant onslaught of distractions and thoughts not our own, we will lose ourselves. So, for heaven’s sake, or should I rather say for the sake of our sanity, please let us take authority and chose what we want! We wake up every morning with a limited amount of energy to make it through the day. Let us choose wisely how we spend this energy, and how we can best conserve and replenish it.
To know what we truly want, what our heart and soul needs, we might have to relearn to listen deeply. To listen we need silence, which has become a commodity these days. Silence and stillness, like breathing and focus are something we might have to consciously chose. Out of silence and stillness comes a call to action, not based on fear, not corrupted by somebody else’s agenda, but your own deeper calling.
If you do not listen to your own deeper voice, who’s voice are you listening to? If you do not follow your own dreams, who’s dreams are you following?
I wish you mindfulness and strength for this coming week from the Whalefjord here in Iceland.
Bernd
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