Your Reminder To Sit In Silence - With Zero Expectations

'Tis the season. 

That's what we say, right? 

'Tis the season.

For crazy. 

For busy. 

For overabundance.

Overindulgence. 

For running. 

For illness. 

For fighting. 

For chaos. 

For love through usage of the credit card.

Holiday time. 

We love it, don't we? 

But we also stress it.

Today it's simpler than ever.

Let's try this one on for size:

'Tis the season to sit in silence, once a day. 

Not meditating. 

Not practicing breathwork.

Not training ourselves or our minds to do even one more thing. 

Simply sitting in silence. 

With zero expectations. 

If not now, during a season which may quickly tip the scales into 'too much', then when? 

Read the studies, try it out, and see what may come.

Happy reading.

Better yet. 

Happy silencing. :-)

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STUDIES & RESOURCES:

(The studies below are nowhere near an exhaustive list. Always continue your own research and read the papers within each paper below.)

1) Waiting, Thinking, And Feeling: Variations In The Perception Of Time During Silence

2) Silence And Its Effects On The Autonomic Nervous System: A Systematic Review

3) Annoyance To Different Noise Sources Is Associated With Atrial Fibrillation In The Gutenberg Health Study

4) Incidence Of Depression In Relation To Transportation Noise Exposure And Noise Annoyance In The SAPALDIA Study

5) Auditory distraction: A duplex-mechanism account

6) Quiet Environments And The Intentional Practice Of Silence: Toward A New Perspective In The Analysis Of Silence In Organizations

7) Reframing Silence as Purposeful: Emotions in Extreme Contexts

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