ruminations on remembrance
ruminations on remembrance
can you hear the quiet?
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can you hear the quiet?

stillness in the desert

a little walking meditation asmr. enjoy the sounds…

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the desert is majestic. the magic stops all. the clouds appear to be motionless. nothing moves. nothing. except the quiet. tree branches don’t sway. leaves don’t rustle. resounding nothingness. the lizards scamper in silence. chipmunks race over rocks. the stealth hops of cottontails. the mountains enforce the silence.

the quiet echoes between the ranges…only the sound of my soles landing in the sand and on the rocks…the perfect asmr to chase the silence. like white noise…continuous without disrupting. the sound is my metronome…to walk in meditation. i order my steps according to the cadence. if the volume increases, i know to slow and step lightly…

my entire being quiets. the quiet fills every inch of space between my ears. i only hear the waves of nothingness. my mind stills just so i can hear any slight sound from nature…from any possible movement. my mind settles into the nothing. can you imagine what it’s like to not hear a sound? the desert guides me to the loudest quiet. my mind replicates my surroundings. complete silence.

where was the last silent place you visited? is there somewhere you’d like to be? does the quiet transport you? it transports me…sometimes i am seated, levitating…enveloped in white…clothed in white…complete serenity. sometimes i am seated on black sand…midnight sky, with a few blinking stars…the peace of the ocean waves…the shadows feed my being. or i stay where i am - in the desert. reclined on the desert floor. watching the quilted clouds above. still immersed in complete silence. every wave of stillness clearing my auras, emotions and mind.

it’s as though gravity dissipates when the wind halts. if i look around, everything is still on the ground…i imagine everything is suspended in the air when the quiet ripples. every being, moving and not, takes a collective inhale. the collective exhale is slow and soft…not disturbing the quiet. stillness is collective respiration cycles. the desert pulls every entity into its vortex of muteness…into its void of silence…nothing can escape it…there’s nothing to clutch to resist its pull. let it engulf + sweep + incapsulate…surrender to the quiet…

there’s ease in the surrender. there’s a balm for all pain + discomfort…for every ailment…the most afflicting thoughts must surrender to the quiet. the mind will attempt to run. only to succumb. the desert is much too powerful. see what happens when you say yes…and you allow the environment to swaddle you. trust the desert…notice how the muscles release…the joints are lax…the bones ground…now listen deeply to the body. there will be twitches and twinges that missed your awareness…now, the silence shines a light on them. if your mind is particularly chatty, stay in the silence of feeling into the body. if quiet in the mind comes with more ease, sit in the subconscious…allow revelations, nudges, guidance and reminders to float through..

i surrender to the quiet…diving in mind first. i listen to my steps. i listen to the wind. i feel sweat soaking my entire body. the heat wrings me out. i feel the sensations that ripple through my body as i place my barefoot + palms on the sand. i allow the volume of the silence to become louder and louder…i can hear nothing else. a deep, robust peace washes over me. my focus solely on the silence…


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