Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share The Power of Silence
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
The Power of Silence
The answers you were looking for are in the silence you're avoiding.
We live in a world of constant noise.
Online, on screens, in stores, in airpods, glasses, everywhere you turn. In fact, now when you are getting gas for your car….you are subjected to ads!
Noise reduces discomfort, distracts us, and soothes the anxieties of life.
The question is not am I surrounded, inundated, drowning in noise….because we are. The question is how can we reduce the noise around us? How can we remove the unneeded?
How can we be quiet enough to know what our own voice sounds like?
How do we know what we really want, when we are constantly being marketed to?
How can we know what we really want if our algorithm is being curated for us?
How can we break away from the well meaning, self serving, snake oil, propagandized, agenda driven, sales driven, self bias confirming, dopamine pumping, downpour of noise?
I ask, not because I have a six step method to sell you, or asking for a friend, because I’m struggling with it just like you….and just like you I’d like to enjoy some peace of quiet….without the pain of boredom or the existential dread that comes along with it…….
Except I don’t think that is part of the deal.
It’s not boredom that we are avoiding ... .its our own thoughts.
The nagging ones, the bad ones, the ones on repeat, the ones that true are false we avoid like the plague with a constant barrage of distractions.
That’s what’s standing in our way of growth, of comfortability in our own heads, and activating the massive potential we have put on pause.
How do we get from behind the screen and into full view of life right now?
1. I’m biased but martial arts is a great place to start.
We are forced to be present, in community, engaged and actively listening, learning, and thinking. We are engaged in problem solving….and not problem avoidance.
2. Being outside vs being online.You don’t have to take a picture every time you are outside….in fact you should leave your phone behind. We so rarely just walk, no noise, no phone, no agenda, just walking mindfully and enjoying the present moment.
3. Sleeping away from the phone. For me personally this is the toughest! But the light, the noise, the distraction ruins our sleep, our chance to get good rest and a chance for us to recall the day, it lessons, and the chance for gratitude.
The quote that I cannot escape, and maybe you will get some value from it too is this:
“The answers you are looking for are in the silence you are avoiding”
And this one from ram dass: “the quieter you become the more you can hear.”
What answers are you avoiding, what could you accomplish with a life off pause, what is hiding from you behind the noise and is waiting for you to be quiet enough to hear it?
However busy your day is, whatever is going on ....I hope you take, make, or steal a moment for silence, for reflection, or simply just to breathe. There is a power in stillness that motion cannot replicate.
View all episodes
By Joshua Page
5
1919 ratings
The answers you were looking for are in the silence you're avoiding.
We live in a world of constant noise.
Online, on screens, in stores, in airpods, glasses, everywhere you turn. In fact, now when you are getting gas for your car….you are subjected to ads!
Noise reduces discomfort, distracts us, and soothes the anxieties of life.
The question is not am I surrounded, inundated, drowning in noise….because we are. The question is how can we reduce the noise around us? How can we remove the unneeded?
How can we be quiet enough to know what our own voice sounds like?
How do we know what we really want, when we are constantly being marketed to?
How can we know what we really want if our algorithm is being curated for us?
How can we break away from the well meaning, self serving, snake oil, propagandized, agenda driven, sales driven, self bias confirming, dopamine pumping, downpour of noise?
I ask, not because I have a six step method to sell you, or asking for a friend, because I’m struggling with it just like you….and just like you I’d like to enjoy some peace of quiet….without the pain of boredom or the existential dread that comes along with it…….
Except I don’t think that is part of the deal.
It’s not boredom that we are avoiding ... .its our own thoughts.
The nagging ones, the bad ones, the ones on repeat, the ones that true are false we avoid like the plague with a constant barrage of distractions.
That’s what’s standing in our way of growth, of comfortability in our own heads, and activating the massive potential we have put on pause.
How do we get from behind the screen and into full view of life right now?
1. I’m biased but martial arts is a great place to start.
We are forced to be present, in community, engaged and actively listening, learning, and thinking. We are engaged in problem solving….and not problem avoidance.
2. Being outside vs being online.You don’t have to take a picture every time you are outside….in fact you should leave your phone behind. We so rarely just walk, no noise, no phone, no agenda, just walking mindfully and enjoying the present moment.
3. Sleeping away from the phone. For me personally this is the toughest! But the light, the noise, the distraction ruins our sleep, our chance to get good rest and a chance for us to recall the day, it lessons, and the chance for gratitude.
The quote that I cannot escape, and maybe you will get some value from it too is this:
“The answers you are looking for are in the silence you are avoiding”
And this one from ram dass: “the quieter you become the more you can hear.”
What answers are you avoiding, what could you accomplish with a life off pause, what is hiding from you behind the noise and is waiting for you to be quiet enough to hear it?
However busy your day is, whatever is going on ....I hope you take, make, or steal a moment for silence, for reflection, or simply just to breathe. There is a power in stillness that motion cannot replicate.