Therapeutic Silence

Big time coming!  On my way about noon toward Asheville for course in Therapeutic Yoga.  Yes, I do think all of yoga is therapeutic (• having a good effect on the body or mind; contributing to a sense of well-being:a therapeutic silence).  So says the web dictionary.  Would anyone who has ever attended more than one or two yoga sessions of any kind disagree?  That sense of well-being is what we are all after.  I often say (when I'm in my Happiness Specialist role) "What we all want is to feel good."  Notice the part of the definition that says a therapeutic silence.  As anyone who has tried it knows, silence may be the hardest thing we try to do in yoga.  Still, it does become healing as we learn by practicing more.  I admit it - I am still somewhat at a loss in my cottage without the potential to hear the TV voices even occasionally.  Now I know that I was relying on that to avoid silence - even though probably no more than an hour or two a day and often none at all.  I have created more silence and I find myself avoiding it by moving more, doing more stuff, avoiding just being still in the silence.  One day, I will find myself feeling forced to DO something rather than enjoy the silence and connecting to the Source.  Not today.  Not tomorrow.  But someday.