{"id":131174,"date":"2024-01-26T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/?p=131174"},"modified":"2024-04-03T11:44:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:44:41","slug":"become-quiet-so-you-can-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/become-quiet-so-you-can-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Become Quiet So You Can Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/leobabauta.com\">Leo Babauta<\/a><\/h4>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>\u2015 Rumi<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s rarely a moment in the day when most of us stop moving and stop the noise. For most of us, we\u2019re working, we\u2019re moving, we\u2019re driving, we\u2019re listening to things on our headphones, we\u2019re watching things, we\u2019re filling up the little spaces by checking our phones.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t wrong \u2014\u00a0it\u2019s a very human tendency to want to be busy, productive, filling every space with something useful or entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>But what if we could let ourselves become quiet?<\/p>\n<p>What happens is something magical: we start to discover a new way of being alive, and a deeper experience starts to reveal itself to us.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to become quiet? There isn\u2019t a simple answer to this, but here are some of what I\u2019ve been learning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It means slowing down for at least a few minutes, physically \u2014 refrain from moving around doing a lot of things, refrain from doing a bunch of tasks on your computer or phone, but instead just sit or come to some kind of stillness or slowness.<\/li>\n<li>It doesn\u2019t mean you need to meditate \u2014 though of course that\u2019s one way to do it. Instead, you could go for a quiet walk in nature, or sit watching the sunset, or lie in a hammock and just feel the breeze.<\/li>\n<li>Move away from technology, at least for a few minutes. Disconnect. Let go of reading and listening as well. Just sit still or move slowly, not trying to get anything done or consume anything.<\/li>\n<li>It means you let go of being productive or being entertained. You don\u2019t need to achieve anything, prove anything, be excited. You let go of these kinds of compulsions, even for a few minutes.<\/li>\n<li>It means you don\u2019t need to feel a certain way, or avoid feeling a certain way. For example, a lot of people want to feel productive, competent, entertained, so we do whatever we can to get those kinds of feelings. Also, we don\u2019t want to feel bored, lonely, sad, helpless \u2026 so we do everything we can in order to avoid these feelings. Becoming quiet means we can allow ourselves to feel however we feel, just allowing it to be our experience. This gives us a freedom for life to be just as it is, and for ourselves to be just how we are, however we\u2019re feeling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stillness and quiet aren\u2019t the sexiest things, where you can make a lot of money or get a bunch of followers or viewers. We don\u2019t usually realize we\u2019re craving quiet. But in my experience, this is where the deepest experience of life lies, in the quietude.<\/p>\n<p>What might you hear in the stillness and quiet? What life has to say.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cIn stillness, the world is restored.\u201d \u2014 Lao Tzu<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/zenhabits.net\/quietude\/\">Become Quiet So You Can Listen<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/zenhabits.net\">zen habits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leo Babauta \u201cThe quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.\u201d \u2015 Rumi There\u2019s rarely a moment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131175,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131174\/revisions\/131175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}