Amale Bouzlafa

When was the last time you stopped to just listen? Listen to the world around you, listen to the world within? It’s so funny how we get used to running after the answers outside ourselves when the best answers are within… We have a real treasure within ourselves, a treasure full of all the answers we need, all the answers we seek. A treasure that only desires one thing: to open, to speak, and to share all the important information it has. But how can this treasure open to speak if we’re not open to listen? The only way to hear its voice is to stop and listen…

Listen.

Okay, I’m not going to lie, it took me a long time to start doing it myself. You know, “listening” I mean… It’s very easy to say it, not that easy to do or remember to do it. Especially when you have a reflex of pushing that little voice away, not letting it speak because it is too weak, too little, not able to protect you! You got hurt by trusting it, so why trust it again?!

It wasn’t always the case, though… Remember, there was a time when you were listening to that little voice you had. You would listen to its guidance and wisdom, and remember, you even fought to defend this voice… For a dream, for a goal, or an aspiration… But then, at some point, you got very tired, and you got hurt, unable to defend it anymore, and you let the noise of the external world scare away that little voice, replacing it with a huge shield. And a new voice replaced that little voice, a stronger voice, an assertive one, one that doesn’t leave room for softness or emotions, one that doesn’t wait for you to listen to it because it’s too loud, but at least it protects you…

Because you stopped listening to it, the little voice started disappearing little by little, and you even forgot about it… As everybody does. As I did, unfortunately… As everyone will do at some point. The good news is that the little voice is still there! It never disappeared, it never stopped talking! The little voice is still here and waiting for you to listen…

So listen!

It’s interesting how many things we notice when we stop to listen, even for just a minute. So now I challenge you to try it, you’ll see how effective it is. You’ll start to realize that the answers you need existed all along, but you were searching for these answers in the wrong places. Because all the answers you need were already within you…

Trusting it will bring some light to someone’s shadow,  

Amale 💫💙