Clamor and Birdsong

Bewildered

Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan

Business, Courses, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Noise. It’s ever-present in our culture, and often it affects us in ways we don’t even realize. In this episode of Bewildered, we explore how different sounds impact the nervous system—from disrupting sleep to interfering with brain waves to triggering fear in the amygdala—and what we can do to heal. (Hint: Birdsong is a powerful antidote!) Tune in for the full conversation to learn about the physiological and emotional effects of noise and how to regain your equilibrium in an increasingly noisy world.

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0:00.0	Hi, Kahoot. Today we are talking about noisy.
0:04.8	Some people pronounce it noise. I personally am more cultured, so I pronounce it noise.
0:11.2	Noiset. We live in a noisay culture, as many of you know.
0:17.0	And we think we can get used to it. That the noises of our society, which are so different from anything in our ecological history, we think that they're not bothering us.
0:29.3	But studies show that our nervous systems are suffering a lot even when we don't realize it.
0:35.7	And birdsong might just be the thing that breaks the whole thing
0:41.0	open and changes our lives forever. Listen in. We hope you enjoy it. Yeah. Do you ever feel a sense of
0:52.4	something that wants to happen?
0:54.5	Like a step forward for yourself and a new way to be in the world, but you don't know exactly what it is?
0:59.8	That feeling's real and it's pointing towards a transformation.
1:03.0	But it's not something that happens in a vacuum.
1:05.1	It happens in community.
1:06.5	So check out our new online community, Wilder, a sanctuary for the bewildered. Wilder is a place where
1:13.6	we can all connect and hang out, support each other, and workshop practical ways for us all to
1:18.2	live a life in harmony with our true nature. So join Roe and me and all your new besties at
1:23.4	wilder community.com.
1:30.4	Hi, I'm Martha Beck.
1:31.4	And I'm Rowan Mangon.
1:36.2	And this is another episode of Bewildered, the podcast for people like you and me trying to figure it all out.
1:37.5	Am I right?
1:38.6	Oh, my goodness.
1:39.6	It's so hard to figure it all out.
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