There are 11 million bits of information coming for our attention at any moment. Our attentional networks sift through that 99.999% of that gathered bits gets sifted through. So it's your question, Eric, about how we get beyond the informational noise. A big part of it is whether we perceive noise to be part of the problem or if the noise is progress.
Leigh Marz and Justin Zorn discuss their book, Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise, explore the different types of noise we all experience in our lives, and why we need to find silence amidst all the noise.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
- How silence can bring us to place of expansion and openness rather than contraction
- Remembering that silence is always here and accessible and is more than just the absense of noise
- Understanding the three types of noise: auditory, information, and internal
- How we can practice noticing the noise around us and adjust our reaction to it
- Important strategies for dealing with the infinitie informatioal noise in the world
- Why we need to learn Feeling into what truly brings us quiet, what signals alert us that we’re taking in too much noise!
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