The Healing Power of Silence with Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz • X82

Mind Love • Modern Mindfulness to Think, Feel, and Live Well

Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach

Mental Health, Mindfulness, Consciousness, Personal Growth, Spiritual Growth, Inspirational, Awakening, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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We will learn: The science of why silence is essential for our bodies and minds. Why virtually all the world’s spiritual traditions honor silence as a path to truth. Practical approaches to finding “little moments” of silence as well as deeper immersion. How often do you sit in silence? And if the silence can help you know yourself better, what other treasures does it hold? That’s what we’re talking about today, the golden power of silence. Our guests are Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz. Justin Zorn is an author and policymaker, who has served as both a strategist and a meditation teacher in the US Congress. Leigh Marz is a leadership coach and collaboration consultant specializing in working with scientists, engineers, and creatives. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x82 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self. Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations. Support Mind Love Sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mind Love Premium, episode
0:02.8	episode is all about the healing power of silence.
0:06.8	So there's this study at a Duke University,
0:09.8	Ermka Christie, they look at mice and they put them in those little
0:12.7	anticoic chambers you were talking about. So limiting all this outside
0:16.4	interference, outside noise. They piped in like little pup sounds, they
0:20.9	piped in Mozart, and then they also used, as is often the case,
0:26.7	silence is sort of a baseline. And it was silence where they noticed a sustained cell growth in the neurons and the mice so that this idea
0:37.1	that there was a good type of stress, this positive type of stress where it's an unfamiliar thing but you're growing into that.
0:44.5	It's really one of the key insights we found in this book is that the simple act of
0:50.9	listening to silence regenerates the brain.
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1:17.4	How often do you sit in silence?
1:20.8	In the world that we live in, silence is pretty hard to come by.
1:24.0	For the first time in history, we actually have little personal devices that go everywhere we do
1:30.0	so we can be reached through phone call, email, text message, social notifications,
1:35.0	and when those aren't dinging for our attention, most of us have a compulsive
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