10 Important Reasons to Start Making Time for Silence, Rest and Solitude

I need to take this advice myself. Take a look at this article (especially #8), and give it a shot! Post a comment on your results. Did the quietness drive you crazy? Did it spark a new book idea? Let me know!

Title: 10 Important Reasons to Start Making Time for Silence, Rest and Solitude By: Thai Nguyen, HuffPost Healthy Living

Article Snippet: It’s amazing how tuned out we become to the motor of the air-conditioner and refrigerator — the sudden silence is a startling reprieve. Likewise, we become numb to the buzz of our technology saturated world.

Smartphone users check their device every 6.5 minutes, which works out to around 150 times a day. Silence is replaced with a cacophony of communication, and solitude is replaced with social media.

Indeed they’re an endangered species: silence and solitude; yet great revelations and benefits are found in them. Here are ten: (Click here to read the rest of this article.)

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