Q U I E T P L E A S E !!!
Living in Japan, you
seldom have anytime for total peace and quiet… In fact, I have never heard my
ears ring from lack of any sound like I have a number of times in the states
while I was at the Grand Canyon, Arches, Death Valley, the jungles of Malaysia
and Thailand etc… Japan does have its
country-side with fewer and fewer people every year but there always seems to
be something making a noise that keeps the word total silence out of the
vocabulary…
We all need a little quiet time, a little down time, a little “off the grid” time so we can pay attention to what is going on inside our bodies and our brains… How long has it been since you were able to take a time out from the high pace of everything? Has it been too long? Most of us have to learn how to reunite with our inner-self and the messages that are always there when we are really listening…the most simple and the most complex problems can be solved and decisions made with a little peace and quiet that makes for things being better in our lives…
The Japanese have always been considered a
quiet people… I have found that not to be the case when they are in numbers…
even small numbers… I was at Arches
watching the Delicate Arch and the Sun about to rise right through the middle
of it… It was a very beautiful and quiet moment… The next second, a huge
deafening sound of … not other Americans, nor Europeans, but a busload of
Japanese got off a bus and decided that talking in a huge voice in the middle
of nowhere where there isn’t any noise, was a good thing for them… Little did they realize that they were about
to miss out on one of the most beautiful sites on this planet and also the
chance to hear total silence for probably the first time in their lives…
Speaking better Japanese than their guide,
I immediately popped out the Osaka dialect and started to calm the masses down
with low and very witty sense of humor but with a final destination of
total peace and quiet from all of them and before the Sun rose too high to
enjoy it… They got the picture, and we
took pictures after they enjoyed the moment of pure and total silence… a once
in a lifetime experience for most of them…
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk!
Robert Scott is an Exercise and Sport Sciences/ Sport Psychology Specialist.
University Professor at University in Osaka, Japan
Master/PhD. Courses: Sport Philosophy, Psychology, Pedagogy and Physiology
Ex-Professional Athlete--
Health Specialist-- Motivational Speaker and Trainer to Professional and Olympic Athletes and to the Masses.
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