We reach for a pill to calm down.
A drink to take the edge off.
A Red Bull to wake up.
A tablet to mask the pain.
Quick fixes.
Fast escapes.
Temporary relief.
We treat the symptom.
We ignore the cause.
Ancient civilisations taught something very different.
They knew that silence is a healer.
Stillness is a teacher.
Presence is a medicine.
Yet today we spend almost no time in silence.
No time sitting.
No time breathing.
No time letting the mind settle long enough to hear the truth.
We rush.
We numb.
We distract.
Then wonder why clarity never arrives.
Meditation is not about emptying the mind.
It is about giving yourself space to see.
To feel.
To think.
To hear the answers that are already inside you.
Sit with the problem.
Sit with the feeling.
Sit with the question.
Because when you stop fighting the noise,
the real insights finally rise.
If you want clarity, calm, energy or direction,
try silence before stimulants.
Stillness before substitutes.
Meditation before medication.
Your mind already knows the way.
You just need to give it enough quiet to speak.