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How can I develop the habit of silence?
Find time for moments of quiet throughout the day: Unplug during your commute, sit quietly for a few minutes after work, or meditate for a few minutes first thing in the morning or just before bed. Use the 7-to-7 rule to curb your smartphone addiction. After 7:00 p.m., put away your phone for the night.
Why can’t I sit in silence?
Like all other specific phobias, the fear of silence is usually caused by a traumatic or negative episode in the phobic’s life. For some people, it is impossible to meditate or sit in a quiet room for even a few minutes as they always need their phone, music, TV, or the noise of traffic around them.
Can you hear true silence?
That’s what we learned from neuroscientist Dr. Seth Horowitz of Brown University; true silence is non-existent. “In truly quiet areas,” he writes in his book, The Universal Sense, “you can even hear the sound of air molecules vibrating inside your ear canals or the fluid in your ears themselves.”
Why should you replace noise with silence?
Shutting both types of noise out–literal (and excessive) sound, and the more general commotion of the modern workplace—can improve our ability to focus and create our best work. Here’s why you should replace noise with silence.
Is listening to silence good for your brain?
Silence Gives Your Brain A Break. Silence isn’t simply relaxing for the brain, either. One study of mice, which Gross cites in the same story, found that listening to silence for two hours every day prompted the subjects’ brains to grow new cells in the hippocampus, which is related to our brain’s memory abilities.
Should we learn to be quieter in our lives?
Smallwood isn’t the only one who thinks getting away from the noise of the world is a useful habit to build. French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal believed humans should learn to be quiet more often, remarking, “All the unhappiness of men arises from one simple fact: that they cannot sit quietly in their chamber.”
Is silence the most underappreciated productivity tool?
It’s seldom that our worlds are fully silent–so seldom, that complete silence feels shocking. We welcome sound into our lives unthinkingly, sometimes to our detriment. And according to the latest research, silence is perhaps one of our most underappreciated productivity tool.