Enjoy Being Alone Without Feeling Lonely

Do you enjoy being alone?

Can you enjoy time by yourself without external distractions such as a phone, television, Internet or text messaging?

It is so easy now to spend all day interacting with others via some electronic device that many of us don't know what to do with ourselves if we are without these devices.  We fill our time with work, friends, family that we often forget to develop a relationship with ourselves.  On my health history questionnaire for new patients, one of the questions is whether or not you experience loneliness.  The majority of people check that box.  How long has it been since you've had some quality time with yourself?  I find it difficult to really share myself in an intimate relationship if I don't have that deep introspective time with myself.  Every morning I meditate and use that morning ritual to find my center, this sets the tone for my day.  In my line of work, where I have to be there for my patients, I find myself being a much better doctor and healer when I am centered and emotionally whole.  I talk with too many people who have almost no alone time and no time to know who they are and what they want out of life.  This, of course, makes it hard to achieve a dream if the dream is vague and general. 

Loneliness is an epidemic in our society.  As the pace of our world moves faster and access to others is so easy and fast, it is possible to be lonely being in the midst of so many others.  We humans are social beings and interactions and touch are crucial to our survival.  It is too easy to go with the flow of the masses.  Seek to find your own inner truth and connect with your inner self so that your interactions with the world are increasingly more satisfying.  Alone time can generate new ideas, creative solutions, Ah-Ha moments of awareness and give you a sense of overall well-being. 

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