spend lots of time in silence

If you mean no talking, I did.
If you mean no loudness or mostly any sounds at all, I did, too.
If you mean no internal dialog, I did, too.
If you mean all and just staring, I did, too.

And every body should try all of them at least once. For long time spans. In differents places and situations.

And if you can have you home silent, you will thanks, whather you are doing one of these or not. Or even if you are going something very noisy, being the most noisy thing.
You get to love it, you get to love both the silence or whatever you do in contrast (music, tv, talking, company, animal, etc.. ).
And if at some point you lose it, you miss it too. I hate when our tv crosses the line between “I’m watching, listen or staring at it while I think” and “Why the hell can turn it off? She’s been there for 6 hours and they are the same every day voices I get to hate!”

It’s 4 in the afternoon. Time to continue my nap/mediation. Over and out.

The last few months I’ve not just been meditating regularly but also just staring, walking around and doing other mindless things. I basically spend as much time as possible on activities which don’t require me to carry on an internal dialog. And, since I don’t have to work this year, I can concentrate on this quite well. :-) Maybe later I’ll tell some more a bout what I’ve experienced and felt so far this year.

Last January I identified that a lot of problems in my life can be traced to never letting it be quiet….. hmmmmm….. I never let God in cuz of “needing” noise all the time….

I spent the day listening to loud music, dancing around the house and doing some yard work. I consider that is was a quiet day, because I did not talk to anyone and no one talked to me. It was a day to focus on my own thoughts and do my own thing.

I live alone. It is quiet here. Some people would call quiet, silence. I don’t know, maybe it is a radical thought, but it is pretty darn quiet. So, there is the silence part. Now, the spend lots of time. Let’s see, there are 24 hours in a day. I live alone. So, pretty much, I spend 24 hours a day in silence. Unless I go somewhere and actually hear people speaking… but I really don’t listen to them, so that would actually be silence time as well. It’s especially quiet in the winter. Eerie, too. Kinda of an eerie silence. Maybe I should revise this goal. “Spend lots of time in eerie silence while thinking of purple dyed sheep doing the foxtrot”.