Inner silence is a very old concept that has regained notoriety, to understand what it is, let us think about the noise of the world, it is not only about the high-pitched sounds that we find every day in the big cities, it is also linked to the wide variety of elements that alter our tranquility.
Thus, we can speak of an external silence and an inner silence. External silence is the absence of sounds. It coincides with those beautiful states in which the outside noise disappears. On the other hand, inner silence refers to a subjective state in which there are no elements that disturb tranquility.
- Inner and outer silence offers great benefits to our brains.
- The absence of noise and the absence of stressful stimuli facilitate a unique form of rest: they revitalize.
- Purify the mind and moderate emotions.
- There’s nothing like silence to renew us.
“All humanity’s problems come from man’s inability to sit alone and silently in a room. “Blaise Pascal?
One of the most difficult aspects of today’s world is the bombardment of stimuli to which we are exposed, the most worrying thing is that many of them have a seal of pressure or urgency, we have not even woken up yet and we already have a lot of concerns in mind.
Technology takes a long time. Partly because of the work and also because we depend on social networks, they are a space of socialization and communication that we must constantly consult.
In these conditions it is practically impossible to establish a true interior contact, for this we would need spaces of interior silence, that is, we would have to reduce this volume of stimuli to a minimum and leave empty spaces that allow us to pay attention to our own thoughts and emotions in order to listen to them. clearly.
The inner and outer silence are interdependent, today we have many more auditory stimuli than in the past, we often feel called to leave ourselves by external noises: the repique of a siren, the roar of an engine or a sound warning announcing the arrival of a new message. All of this happens with impressive density.
Sometimes you want to go far, in a place where there is no noise, if we can do it there is nothing better than doing it, the problem is that many times this is not possible because commitments prevent us, but we do. There is no need to resign ourselves to this constant weight.
It is not necessary to practice yoga or do meditation exercises, only one thing is enough: reduce the number of stimuli received, make life easier. Eliminate the feeling of obligation to everything and be alone with the essentials.
When we don’t have moments of inner silence, we stay tense. And over time, this tension turns into pain. We live in pain. It’s not a healthy way to live. To get out of this state you have to learn to put limits, both in the stimuli you receive and in the responsibilities that you impose.
In today’s world, the first limit to be put is technology, we spend a lot of time on our social networks and emails, we believe that all this makes a great contribution to our lives, but it is not, they steal precious moments from us and prevent us from listening to each other.
A good idea is to have two mobile phones: one for work and one for personal business. At the end of the workday, turn off your mobile phone and turn it back on the next day. contribution provided by social media interactions, which we will probably find very little. This would encourage us to limit the access and time we spend reading messages.
Only from the inner silence can we hear what our body says: its complaints, its alerts, its pleasures, we also need this form of silence to rediscover and identify what we think and feel about our lives, inner silence is a gift that we must not deny.