Why Silence is Powerful in a World of Noise with Leigh Marz & Justin Zorn

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	To this question of what we can actually do to get beyond this world of noise that you pose there,
0:05.0	the first thing we look to is notice noise, pay attention to it, figure out how you can notice
0:12.9	where things are noisy, including the signals that noise creates in your body.
0:18.0	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:28.0	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:32.5	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:38.1	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:42.4	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:47.1	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:50.0	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:53.5	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
0:56.9	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
1:01.8	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
1:06.2	how they feed their good walls.
1:21.9	In 1968, five black girls were picked up by police after running away from a reform school
1:27.9	in Mount Meg's Alabama. I'm writer and reporter Josie Defi Rice.
1:32.1	And in a new podcast, I investigate the abuse that thousands of black children
1:36.5	suffered at the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children,
1:40.6	and how those five girls changed everything.
1:44.5	Listen to Unreformed on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:52.2	Thanks for joining us. Our guests on this episode are Justin Zorn and Lee Mars.
1:57.1	Justin has served as both a policymaker and a meditation teacher in the U.S. Congress.
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