At some point, people who practice meditation might experience brief flashes of inner peace. It is a sort of temporary inner silence, tranquility, and a sense of bliss.
Gradually, these flashes of inner peace, which last for a split second at the beginning, get longer and deeper. The time might extend to several seconds and then even to several minutes.
In time, these moments of inner peace and inner silence would be experienced not only while meditating but also in everyday life when busy doing other things.
Strangely, this inner experience does not interfere with what you are doing. You may continue working, reading, exercising, talking, or doing anything else while experiencing this inner peace—inner silence.
You can continue with whatever task you are carrying out while experiencing these flashes of inner peace.
While enjoying this experience, you feel very much alive, happy, and calm. At the same time, this experience does not interfere with your ability to handle your tasks and everyday affairs calmly and efficiently.
During this experience, there is a sense of expanded awareness, and a feeling of being fully alive.
While in this state, there are no thoughts such as “I am not thinking now” or “My mind is silent.” You just feel peaceful and blissful, forgetting your personality-ego and just BE.
Inner Silence Is an Uplifting and Blissful Experience
It is an uplifting and blissful experience, brought about when the mind and the thinking process slow down and stop their restlessness. In this state, you feel completely conscious and alive, blissful and peaceful, but without restless thinking.
During this inner experience, you feel as if you have awakened from sleep, feeling alive and free.
When you experience this inner peace, you will want it to stay in it. However, the moment you start thinking about it or try to force it to continue, you are out of it.
If you try to force this feeling to stay, it will go away. When you start thinking about it, you shift your awareness back to your thoughts and external world and snap yourself out of this inner experience.
What you need to do is stay calm, not think about it, welcome it when it comes, and remember it when it is gone. You have no control of this state. It will come when you are ready.
In time, as you gain more experience, you will have more control of this state, and bring it about whenever you want.
What Happens When You Experience Inner Silence?
It not easy to explain in words what this experience really is. It is not a state of mind, but something above it. This experience calms down the mind and the body, and drives away meaningless and useless thoughts away from the mind.
Words can only point the direction to this experience, give an approximate understanding of it, and use comparisons to describe it. The best way to know what this inner experience means is to experience it.
In the beginning, when thoughts calm down for just a split second, the experience of inner silence – bliss is short, irregular, and rare. However, as your ability to silence the constant chatter of the mind grows, the depth, duration and frequency of the experience grows.
This inner experience can turn into a habit, and become the usual everyday consciousness. One can then live in this state while living his or her day-to-day life, working, interacting with people and carrying out tasks.
As you continue to meditate and gain inner peace and mastery over your mind, the restless activity of your mind will slow down.
Gradually, as your ability to calm down your mind grows, you will experience more inner silence, inner peace, bliss and happiness. These will not be just short flashes of inner peace and inner silence, but much more.
During this experience, you are here; you live in the present and are aware of the present.
What to Do to Experience Inner Silence
There are various practices leading to inner peace.
Meditation
To experience inner silence, one of the most effective practices is meditation. Meditation helps you detach from the constant stream of thoughts and emotions that flood your mind daily.
Meditation gently quiet the mind. Over time, this practice creates a gap between your thoughts, where you can experience profound stillness. As the mind slows down, inner silence naturally arises, allowing you to step out of mental noise and connect with a deeper sense of peace and clarity.
Being Detached
Detachment is another key to inner silence. Detachment doesn’t mean avoiding responsibilities or emotions, but rather approaching them with a balanced mind, free from excessive attachment.
When you detach from the outcomes of situations, opinions of others, or the need for constant mental activity, you cultivate an inner space that isn’t easily disturbed by external events.
This detachment provides the freedom to observe your thoughts without reacting to them, creating a sense of calm and allowing silence to emerge from within.
Mindfulness
Another practice is quieting your thoughts by being mindful throughout the day. Our minds often race from one thought to another, creating noise that distracts us from the present moment.
By practicing mindfulness while walking in nature or doing daily tasks with full attention you can break this cycle.
Slowly, you will notice that the chatter in your mind decreases, and you experience moments of pure inner silence. This state of stillness brings balance and refreshes your energy, making it easier to connect with yourself on a deeper level.
Meditation and Inner Peace
Meditation and inner peace are very connected. As you continue practicing meditation, your inner peace levels, tranquility and inner silence grow.
Meditate every day, without checking whether you are experiencing inner silence. This experience comes about when the mind is calm and when the inner chatter of the mind stops.
If you keep thinking about the inner silence, your mind will keep producing thoughts, become restless, and even stressed. In this situation, you do not allow your mind to calm down and you do not experience inner silence.
Don’t keep thinking and anticipating the inner silence and inner peace. They will appear when you and your mind are ready.
