The Beauty Of Silence

Most of us don't know - or even fear - quiet. A ritual of practising meditative silence is where you abstain from speaking for a set period each day.

Learning to be silent forces you to collect your thoughts, train your mind and helps you decide how you want to proceed into the day...

• People want to take a constant dose of the emotion they are feeling (anger, despair, anxiety) as a way to program their coping mechanism, as being in a high-alert position is useful in times of danger.
• Others are drawn towards the negativity, as they endlessly browse through the co...

• Find a comfortable place to sit or lie down.
• Breathe in through your nose and fill your lungs from the bottom up, first expanding your belly, then your chest, and finally raising the collar bones.
• Pause.
• Then gently exhale from top to bottom, using your stomach mu...