Do you ever consider being in silence for a while, when you feel upset about your life? Sometimes I feel that way. You know even after everything goes well still there comes a moment when we look for peace in our life. We look for a quiet place where we can sit and think alone.
It’s a feel-good way to spend some time with your soul only, to know our feelings a little more deeply. It helps us to Let go our deepest regrets.
But often we struggle with it a lot. We skip that one because we fear the aloneness. Undoubtedly loneliness is not good. But it often requires in our life. In those moments, we should not skip that one.
Here is why you should need to practice silence (solitude) in your life
1. Relief from Chaos: Silence helps us to relieve
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Hear Your Voice: In silence, you can hear your inner voice. What it really wants. It works perfectly when we find ourselves in a great dilemma when we don’t know what to do next. Silence helps us to show the right way.
3. Refreshment in Relations: It also gives us a space to refocus in our relationships. It shows us where we are doing wrong in our life, where we need to focus again, where we need to work to better our day-to-day life.
4. Overcoming Bad Habits: Silence works as a perfect remedy for those who are struggling with bad habits. It helps them to find the good part of their heart. It allows them to reconsider their actions.
5. Works as Motivation: Silence also helps us to regain our lost motivation. It provides the strength to stand against our depressed mind. We gain energy from our work.
6. Heal Our Wounds: Few minutes in silence can heal a long time wound in our heart. Silence shows us who we really are? Why we should not feel sorry for
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Some of us already practice silence, when we spend time on the balcony standing alone, just watching the moon. Here are some ways to practice silence
1. Pick a Place: Select a place where you can spend time alone without any disturbance. It could be anywhere starting from your house to a riverside or under a tree.
2. Clean and Clear: Make sure the place you select will be clean and clear. Without that, your mind will destruct. Ignore those places which are near to the road.
3. Time limit: Time is flexible in this regards. But most of the time starting from 5 minutes is best. With each day pass away you can increase it as you like.
4. Breath: Practice breathing. Breathing will help you to Let go the stress from your body. Use the technique nostril breathing up to 5 minutes.
5. Suitable Time: It will be best if you practice it in the morning times. But if you can’t, you may choose your own time. As per as good habits concerns anytime is the best time.
What core values silence and solitude bring into our life
1. Forgiveness: When you practice silence you develop a forgiving nature. You started to avoid silly mistakes of others. You stop complaining all the time. And it brings peace in your
In Orfield Laboratories, Minnesota there exists a room known as an anechoic chamber. Anechoic means free from echoes, the room measures at -9 decibels. 45 minutes marks the longest time anyone has spent in there alone. Lacking outside noises, the quietude of the room allows those inside to hear their own internal organs; occasionally hallucinations occur. The chamber amplifies an unknown fear, dead silence and extreme loneliness. Like many things, silence has a multitude of advantages, but extreme silence can prove devastation. In Chaim Potok’s The Chosen silence as a theme demonstrates destructivity. Devastation caused by silence is shown through Reb’s parenting methods, Danny’s silence between his father, and Reuven’s various experiences with silence.
Conrad Jarrett mostly uses silence when dealing with conflict. One example is when he did not tell his family about his suicidal thoughts. The suicide attempt could been avoided if he had mustered up the courage to have a crucial conversation with Calvin. He also used the silence technique when he neglected to tell his friends or swim team coach about what was going on at home. When his friends tried to talk to him, Conrad resorted to a “violence” technique and became unnecessarily angry. Even though Conrad thinks he is not doing anything wrong when he is silent, it still makes the conflict worse because it is not being addressed.
“I am obsessed with silence because of the silence of the world. I do not understand why the world was silent when we needed its outcry. I always come back to that problem. Where were the humanists, the leaders, the liberals, the spokesmen for mankind? The victims needed them. If they had spoken up, the slaughtered would not have succeeded in his task.” - Elie Wiesel
In The Chosen, silence plays an important aspect in the characters lives. Reb Saunders forced silence and suffering upon his son Danny by not talking to him about anything other than his studies. He says he does this because he feels that Danny is so brilliant that he might not understand the suffering of others. Reb Saunders feels that silence is suffering by imposing non-communication, however, silence is really how Reuven, Danny, David Malter, and Reb Saunders communicate with each other and the world around them.
...distractions. Taking time to observe and analyze the silence can bring something to the surface that could never be confronted in any other way. We need to embrace silence presented throughout life, for we will come out with more definitive, powerful voices.
When you’re silent, other people feel uncomfortable. They often try to fill the silence, so they reveal more about themselves and what they like to do. It’s actually a tactic that law enforcement uses to get people to confess. Quiet people listen to all the problems around them and can come up with the best solution to the problems. Problem solvers are very important or else we would just have problem, after problem, and it would never get anything done.
There is much strength associated with both speech and silence. One can use either to their advantage in a power struggle. In the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Randle Patrick McMurphy and Nurse Ratched employ the power of speech and Chief Bromden uses the power of silence until the end of the novel when he gains the power of speech. These cases prove that the greatest power is not held in speech or silence alone, but in the effective combination of the two.
- It still takes some time as you do need about 15 minutes to perform the routine correctly, and you have to perform 1 routine for 6 days a week.
times throughout the day to help control the way your day is going and to find peace and the
Before beginning this program, warm up by doing light activity such as riding a stationary bike for 5-10 minutes.
...appropriate solutions that help in dealing with the problem effectively. I have also learnt how to accept delays or negative feedback with more ease while remaining positive. Through meditation, I will be able to experience increased happiness, calm, and have a positive mental attitude towards everything.
Usually, our first response is to be speechless (p.s. Christians will remember the reactions of Moses with the burning bush, Mary(mother of Jesus) when visited by the Angel). We realize here that religious speechlessness is quite different from lacking courage to speak in public or when faced with an attacker, etc. Religious silence is more geared inwardly. However, Pieper says “Both noise and total silence destroys all possibility of mutual understanding, because they destroy both speaking and hearing” (Pieper, 55). Pieper may be right in these words because when we deal with people, sometimes, being quiet bars effective communication. But then again, silence speaks volumes. To me, silence brings peace of
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The power of thought is an incredible force that controls our actions and emotions. Often these thoughts can lead to distractions, suffering, and stress. However, many forms of meditation ease and diminish the negative ideas that humans face. Meditation has been practiced since ancient times and has a variety of different approaches and methods, but I will focus on what has helped me the most in my life, Zen meditation. As an individual who battles with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive thoughts daily, conscious-altering methods such as meditation have allowed me to escape my compulsive and frightening thoughts and relax my body
Each time you do a good habit, reward yourself with an amount you feel that is right.