This is 5 Minute Friday episode number 3 6 0 and you've got to listen to your own voice.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear, said Ram Das.

Recent studies are showing that our brains love silence.

That's right.

It loves silence.

However, we are becoming busier and busier and louder and louder and listening less and less to ourselves and to the world around us.

Silence allows our mind to sort all the information that has come in and to make sense of it.

I want to ask you a question.

When is the last time you let yourself be in complete silence?

Complete silence?

No cell phone distraction? No iPad? No computer?

No other people running around talking to you? No TV?

Having noise on but just complete silence?

With no distractions around you?

And what happens when all the noise goes away is self-reflection.

It's something that we don't do enough.

It's something that we get to do more of because it allows us to move through the world and make better decisions on what we want and what we don't want.

On what's going to move us towards our vision?

Instead of what's going to hold us back from achieving it.

Silence is golden as they say when you go to the movies.

Make sure that you take the time for yourself to be quiet, to reflect, to listen to your body, to listen to your heart, to listen to your mind.

I remember last year before my book launch, a school of greatness, thinking that, man, I'm not going to have much time for myself.

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