Whisper Of Wisdom

In a world where things are so loud and in your face trying to get your attention, it’s that much more important to listen. Because of that I’ve heard a lot of people talking about the difference between signal and noise. 

Noise is the chaotic overstimulation of everything in our modern life, and the signal is the specific frequency of sounds that’s most important for you to hear and pay attention to. Knowing the difference between signal and noise, and being able to listen for it, is an incredibly important skill.

Intuition and wisdom are signal. They’re small drops of gold in the sea of everything else. They’re most essential, yet, they’re the quietest. Which means we need to pay extra close attention to even hear it, and extract the value within it.

There are some life lessons that are ‘get hit over the head with a sledgehammer’ moments. Things that are impossible to ignore because they’re so significant. But more often than not, life wisdom comes as littler whispers of suggestion. 

It’s not what a mentor says to you, but what you feel about what they said as your body understands it. It’s not a line in a book, but the spark of an idea that comes from reading it as you interpret the words. The perspective someone offers you is their understanding of how things work and what’s meaningful. Within their sharing is the signal that’s meant to activate you in the most unique and personalized of ways.

Like a real whisper, you can only hear the whisper of wisdom when you get quiet and still. When you pull yourself out of the overstimulation of the world. For me this happens during meditation, prayer, workouts, in nature, and on airplanes. These are times when I’m unplugged and present with what’s around me. I realize the whispers are always there and I haven’t been in the right environment to hear them.

My favorite way of doing this is I’ve created a custom meditation for myself that I listen to. At the end of it, after insight into the choices I made yesterday and the plans I have for today, I ask one of my life heroes to give me some advice. I create the open space during meditation, and the wisdom fills it. It’s pretty remarkable. 

If you want to give that meditation a try, here it is! it’s only 10 minutes long but sets you up to have an incredible day.