Why is quieting the mind important?

It’s one of those things that sounds so incredibly easy and is in reality unbelievably challenging – even maddening – at first. The trick is to lean into what works for you. While meditation clicks for some, it can seem eternally out of reach for others. The key to unlocking your mind’s noise control panel will be unique to you. It could be music, time alone in nature, art, listening to guided meditations or self-hypnosis recordings (that was it for me) … there are countless ways to temporarily turn down the volume on the activity of the mind that can deflect and screen out messages to and from our souls, or our higher selves. Once the sound level is turned down on the mind and turned up on the spirit, the guidance will be heard more clearly.