When The World Feels Too Loud

Letting It Settle with Michael Galyon

Good Mess Media

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 572 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Are you feeling overwhelmed by the noise of everyday life? You’re not imagining it—and you’re not alone. In this episode, Michael explores how to stay grounded when the world feels too loud to bear. Through personal stories, practical mindfulness tools, and a closing meditation, you’ll learn how to turn down the volume, protect your peace, and reconnect with the quiet place inside you. Because you don’t have to escape the noise—you just have to remember where your center is. -- Follow Michael Galyon Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@michael.galyon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@lettingitsettle⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.michaelgalyon.com/⁠⁠⁠ Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠connect@michaelgalyon.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Making This Show Possible: We are proud to be an ad-free podcast! This is made possible by our wonderful sponsor, Karin Reimondos at Humble Moments Photography. Please show some love to the people who keep our show running. You can view Karin's beautiful portfolio at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.humblemomentsphotography.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or follow her latest work on Instagram: ⁠@humble_moments_photography⁠ Production & Inquiries Proudly produced and managed by Good Mess Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, just checking in, seeing how you're doing today,
0:09.8	and seeing if you might want to take a little break.
0:12.7	Step away from the noise of the world for just a moment and connect back with you.
0:17.5	If so, let's take a deep breath in and then breathe out and let it all settle.
0:25.0	I'm your host, Michael Gallion, and this is letting it settle.
0:35.0	If the world feels too loud lately, you are not imagining it.
0:41.5	There is so much coming at us at all times.
0:44.9	There's so many voices, so many demands, so many updates and notifications and opinions and expectations and opinions and expectations that it's okay to feel like it's too much sometimes.
0:58.7	You are not broken for needing quiet.
1:02.3	You're wise for craving it.
1:05.1	And you're allowed to be a person who turns inward,
1:09.1	who protects their peace,
1:14.4	who doesn't respond to everything right away,
1:24.2	who lets things go unanswered. That is not a weakness, that is discernment. And today,
1:30.6	I want us to talk about how to live in a noisy world without losing yourself to it.
1:35.9	So let's just be honest here to start.
1:38.6	The world is too loud.
1:47.4	The volume of social media alone, scrolling past hundreds of faces and opinions and heartbreaks and celebrations and tragedies and distractions every single day is more than any human
1:53.9	nervous system was ever meant to hold. Then there's the 24-hour news cycle, spinning stories designed to activate urgency and fear and division,
2:06.7	and then add in the pressure of work and social expectations and politics and group texts and comparison traps
2:15.3	and the often invisible load of trying to be everything for
2:21.2	everyone. And it's no wonder that we feel like we can't even hear ourselves think. We were not
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