What if you could unlock a secret reservoir of creativity and inner peace within you? That's right, we're talking about the underestimated potency of solitude. Rather than a state of being alone, we reveal how solitude is an opportunity for self-reflection and a canvas for your creative endeavors. Whether it's a meditative walk, a peaceful yoga session, or time spent crafting your next masterpiece, solitude serves as a refuge for your mind, fostering emotional wellbeing.
But hold on, it's not all about retreating into your shell! We know the importance of balance. The charm of solitude won't diminish your social vitality; instead, it provides a chance to recharge and come back stronger. In the hustle of life, it's crucial to retain a positive outlook and embrace the power of gratitude. So next time you have a moment to yourself, remember to tune into the Observation Station for a dose of humor, insights, and intriguing discussions. Don't forget to like, rate, and share your favorite episodes with friends. See you next time!
What if you could unlock a secret reservoir of creativity and inner peace within you? That's right, we're talking about the underestimated potency of solitude. Rather than a state of being alone, we reveal how solitude is an opportunity for self-reflection and a canvas for your creative endeavors. Whether it's a meditative walk, a peaceful yoga session, or time spent crafting your next masterpiece, solitude serves as a refuge for your mind, fostering emotional wellbeing.
But hold on, it's not all about retreating into your shell! We know the importance of balance. The charm of solitude won't diminish your social vitality; instead, it provides a chance to recharge and come back stronger. In the hustle of life, it's crucial to retain a positive outlook and embrace the power of gratitude. So next time you have a moment to yourself, remember to tune into the Observation Station for a dose of humor, insights, and intriguing discussions. Don't forget to like, rate, and share your favorite episodes with friends. See you next time!
Do you ever lift your head up from your phone, look around and think to yourself my God, everything is weird. Well, we do A lot. This is the Observation Station, a unique, entertaining and hilarious podcast. If we observe it, we talk about it. Anything and everything, anything and everything. Let's get weird and let's have some fun. This is the Observation Station and now your host, tommy Heights.
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Hey, hey, hey, what's going on? Welcome to the Observation Station. So in today's episode we'll delve into a subject that's both personal and universal. It's the value of solitude. So in our interconnected world, finding time alone can be rare, but benefits are profound, so let's explore why. So I'm going to start here with segment number one. Here is understanding solitude.
Speaker 2:
Solitude is not about isolation or loneliness. It's a time for self-reflection, creativity and inner peace. So many great thinkers, writers and artists have embraced solitude to tap into their inner thoughts and feelings. Solitude fosters self-awareness and can lead to personal insights. Really, it's not just being like a lonely guy like I'm saying. You know, you got to have it where. There has to be you time where the thoughts that are outside trying to intrude into what you really want to do with your life start coming in and saying, hey, do this, do that, do this because it'll make you more favorable, because you're going with the crowd. No, you have to have it where sometimes you're with your own thoughts in the shower and say, okay, well, this is not what I want to do, or it is what I want to do, depending on what your gut feeling says and what everything in your life is pointing towards. So in solitude, in history and culture, there's a lot of different people that have used the value of being alone and throughout history solitude has played a vital role in various cultures, including Hispanic European traditions. It's often associated with spiritual growth and artistic expression. So from the contemplative practices of like Eastern philosophies to creative solitude of European writers, solitude has been cherished and a part of human experience. So I'm guessing a lot of these old pictures where you see people just kind of hanging out under a tree, unless it's just where you didn't have the computer, where you kind of only wanted to paint one guy.
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And sometimes social anxiety comes into play. Many times people might say, hey, look, I just have it where, maybe going out, I haven't had the best experience because sometimes you get it where you get anxious there's a lot of noise, you know, a lot of lights, not a lot of places to be exiting, because you're crammed into there, especially like in a club or something like that. That happens a lot of times. But you got to get out of your comfort zone but at the same time you have to have your alone time to be with, saying do I enjoy doing this or maybe there's other social ways of going about it to meet other people. So here's some practical ways of embracing solitude. So today, world, you know it's going to be challenging, but some simple practices, like taking a walk alone. I do that a lot, where I just go out on the course nighttime. Nobody's going out there playing when it's night, so just walk there and you kind of just hear the little frogs and stuff like that and all the night sounds, just with your own thoughts. Sometimes you just take it where you're reading a book unaudible that way that you just you get your exercise and educated at the same time.
Speaker 2:
Meditating I have to get back onto that. You know it's like saying eating right, which I do eat right. I have some chips here and there, but I do eat right overall and I'm in great shape. But meditating is going to be something I'll need to be putting into the schedule in the morning. Get some breathing inhale, exhale.
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Make sure that you start the day out right, not that you're stressed out, thinking, oh my god, what the hell is this? I mean, this is not working, that's messed up. You got to go in there more calm because there's a lot of shit that's going to be going wrong in the day you might get in a car accident. You might have it where ding, ding, ding. You know who knows what happens. A lot of bad stuff can go on. Nowadays there's so many variables of what can happen to a person, so you got to have an open mind out there, nothing too too big or too small out there to get in your way.
Speaker 2:
So that's the basis of what I'm trying to say here, so dedicating time for creative hobbies that can create moments of solitude. So one of the things that I like to do is adult coloring books. It takes a lot of time to get the small little squares colored. It takes a lot of time to shade. If you really wanted to look nice and if you invest into a nice not Crayola but like a Faber-Castell just throwing a brand out there that's high-end German colored pencils and get some adult coloring books on Amazon.
Speaker 2:
If you ever have some free time, you're just watching some TV, watching a sports game or something like that, and it's maybe a half time or just messing around Just get on that coloring book and just mess around and instead of being on your phone the whole time, you know, just put on some music while you know they're doing the half-time report. Or sometimes, maybe on the weekend, you have a table outside, have just a nice drink, have a cigar, just go out there and you know you can color and it's just whatever it is. It's just fun times to be by yourself and not have it where you're polluted by all the other crap that's going on in the world. There's too much garbage out there to be polluting your head and it's good to have it where. If you got a mind that's straight inside and you know you live with that mind 24-7, so it better be straight, because if it's polluted and messed up, then that means your whole life is going to be polluted and messed up. So some practical ways just be alone, meditate, dedicate time for some creative hobbies, do what you need to do.
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Play an instrument I'm doing guitar. I got to get back to practicing too. That is something that is the hardest part of an instrument is just complete dedication to practice, because you see the songs being played on YouTube and all the music videos, like damn man, I want to be just right now Popping off on that and you're just like damn, I want to be hitting it like just like that, and you think, okay, can't be that hard. It's almost like golf or ice skating. You think, okay, they make it really look easy, but it's really not easy, especially like golf. You're not just hitting a ball, I mean, that's just whoa. You have a hard enough time playing putt-putt golf and there's no competition really there besides you and your buddy, you know.
Speaker 2:
So there's a balance between solitude and social connection. So solitude doesn't mean cutting off social connections, but finding a balance. So time alone can enhance our social relationships by allowing us to understand ourselves better, and solitude and social interaction compliment each other, enriching our lives in unique ways. So really, it's just having it where the beauty of being by yourself is figuring out again what is it that you wanna have? That's a purpose for yourself to say, okay, this is why I wake up, or why am I not feeling good about what I do day to day and I'm just depressed, or something like that. Because, like the more that I have it where you wanna feel pity about yourself and all this other garbage. Well, why would you do that?
Speaker 2:
You live in a great country, you have it where there's a lot of help around here. There's not a place where you have to say I don't have any options. This is a first world country. You go out there to real third world countries. You have limited options here. We have great internet, all this other stuff. It's just we're complaining now about having it where Starbucks is getting too expensive or something where McDonald's is getting too expensive. It's like dude, figure it out. What are we talking about here? It's just a bunch of garbage. When you have it, where you're complaining about going out and eating and whatnot, the things aren't really that bad. I mean, let's get real here. So I mean, in conclusion, the value of solitude is immense. So it's a path to self-discovery, creativity and inner peace and our fast-paced lives. So taking time for solitude can be transformative experience and I really guys, I encourage you to explore solitude. It's discover its power for yourself.
Speaker 2:
And the next episode I'm gonna be talking about the authentic life. So this is what I'm gonna be doing. Now is the more and more that I'm reading kind of like 48 Laws of Power, art of War, books of Self Help and like Tony Robbins. It's being more about what I wanna do and less about what people envision what somebody else is supposed to do in their eyes, of an ideal person or something like that, cause it really doesn't matter. That's the authentic life is living the way that you feel is the way you wanna do it. If you wanna be a damn clown at the circus, down at the fair or festival, well you know. If you don't have it, where you have any kids or something like that or obligations, and it's just you and you're not hurting anybody, well you know, go out there and you better perform. I mean, look, it's what you need to do If that's what makes you happy. Just like some people say I want to be a professional wrestler, like, okay, well, you know WWE. If you do that, maybe you make some great money or whatever, and it is what it is. But figure out what you wanna do.
Speaker 2:
It's sometimes like the balance between figuring out what you wanna do, what you don't wanna do, what makes you happy, what's like, you know, eating away at your soul, especially when you're alone. You're like, oh my God, if I have to keep doing this, my soul is gonna get crushed. That's not a good way of going about stuff. You have to have it where you're feeling fulfilled, not where you're constantly tired and de-energized by the monotonous crap. That is what you think is a jail kind of like oh my God, I have to do this because I have to pay my bills and if I don't do this, I'm gonna be homeless and stranded. I have to do this because I got this and that and these bills. It's like, well, how about you stop spending on first off, like Starbucks and all this other crap? You know so authentic life. So that'll be the next one there.
Speaker 2:
Get some true conversations with myself that I'll be telling to you guys, the observers, and figuring out your purpose. Figure out my purpose. I'm gonna be figuring out myself. So, as the observation station host, I tell you, as the observers, what I'm feeling and what the journey is on my end, and you have your own journeys on your end and everybody goes about it differently. So, all right, guys.
Speaker 2:
Well, thanks for sticking around for this one. So you know, look, it's not something that maybe we're in some times right now, where people are fighting with each other and having this political opinion, that political opinion and saying this about one thing and it triggers somebody else because they're offended over who knows what anymore. Just keep your head up. There's too much negativity. It seems like there's more and more of it each day, and that just you gotta be stronger and not feed into that crap. So, all right, guys, have it where it's just a great weekend, figure it out. Don't take it where it's like I gotta have it done by tonight. It's a journey, it's not just a destination just to say A to Z. Tonight You'll be just fine. Thanks for joining me again. We'll see you next time. All right, enjoy Bye.
Speaker 1:
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