I have always found the outdoors to be grounding, relaxing and

just what the soul needs even when I didn't know I needed it.

When you see the mountains up close and personal - do you feel their magic?

I did as a kid and to this day, whenever I am on one or near one - it feels like this special place where

time stands still and nothing else matters in that moment. 

I have also learned that within silence and stillness is when true magic is created. We spend so much of our day rushing from task to task, thinking of the day that has just passed and the agenda that awaits us for the remainder of the day. So often we are caught up in the past or what is yet to come, that we rarely take note of the present in this very moment as we experience it.

We often distract ourselves with anything that we can to avoid silence.

Phones, tvs, to do lists, cleaning the basement (which reminds me... I need to clean my basement).

Sometimes silence can be scary.

Sometimes silence can be liberating.

Sometimes it takes practice for it to feel good, and sometimes we don't want to do it by ourselves.

And sometimes we ask the Universe for answers.

Perhaps we search for the perfect job, or a life partner,

a new business idea or a way to find more joy in our life.

But we forget the next step, which is being still enough to allow the answers to show up.

Because we are too busy not being quiet to hear and see the answers.