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The Value in Retreat.
I've been weirdly preoccupied with my health stresses and financial strains. I haven't been sleeping well, I struggle to read or create because of pain or my scattered mind.
Today I took a couple hours to just retreat. I went for a long, long walk in the pouring rain down mostly empty streets. I didn't even bring music. I needed to just get outside my head. To smell wet pavement, to hear splashes and feel raindrops on my face.
I walked for hours depsite the pain in my legs and hips. I just couldn't stop. Couldn't turn around. I ended up at a cute little Sushi place that I have visited onced before.
I played sad solo diner, except it was oddly comfortable. I drank warm cleansing green tea. I had a bowl of healing miso. I enjoyed some lovely fresh sushi rolls. I sat quietly, taking in flavours and scents and watching beads of water roll down the window.
There is value in retreat. In quiet. In disappearing for a while.
I feel a bit better.
I feel refreshed.




Simply reading this felt good :-)
Hee!!
This makes me think of my favorite Robert Frost poem, Acquainted With the Night.
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly height, One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.
Ah yes. A lovely poem. 💜
It feels good, because it is good for you.
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/07/scientists-are-discovering-the-neural-benefits-of-silence.html
It's good to go down deep into yourself, but there are so many things that seem to discourage it. Noises and crowds, hundreds of worries and lists of things to do. Even the way in which we interact online seems to demand more quick skimming, rather than deep diving. So it becomes a skill and an art knowing how to find the signal in the noise. Happy you found yours at the end of a lovely walk. :)
I definitely needed it, I feel more present now.
The article you linked is very interesting. I would personally volunteer for a 2 hours a day study of silence on humans... please direct calls to my assistant.
Aeons ago, as part of an electracoustics class, I got to lie down for a half hour inside an anechoic chamber. So silent, I swear I could hear my heart beat. So extraordinarily restful. I imagined while in there, that not just sound, and light, but all the transmissions from all the towers were stopped. I wish I had my own chamber!
Yes please. That would be fantastic.