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Be Subversive: Practice Silence
Take a moment to reflect on how often you experience silence. Likely your reflection called attention to the fact that we are a silence-resistant culture. It is rare to truly experience silence.
While eating breakfast, the news is reporting. In the car, the radio is on. While working out, music is pumping into our brains. Throughout our days, people come and go and we act beholden to our devices. Our evenings are spent watching the television or busying our mind with reading. For many, the only time of silence in their lives is in bed before sleeping. Even then, we fill that silence with “white noise” to lull us to sleep.
Silence is rare.
Given the fact that silence is rare in our lives, it has become a foreign and even uncomfortable experience for many. With so few organic opportunities for silence and our general discomfort with creating it for ourselves, we miss out on the balance to our loud and hectic lives. It is worth persevering through your initial discomfort with silence to experience the balance it brings.
Silence is necessary.
Without the balance between loud and quiet, we manifest that lack of balance in our day-to-day lives. We experience constant mental chatter, worry, inability to focus, emotional spinning, diminished productivity, even insomnia and physiological responses…
