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that comes from being perfectly at one with his true self, his life can be miserable. For many days in our life, we go about our daily routines, performing our duties, sometimes without a pause, exhausting ourselves and ignoring our mental health completely, forgetting that on this our spiritual path, a silent mind is associated with inner peace, calm and quiet. Particularly in these difficult times, everyone should realize that silent awareness has the ability to also heal. Silence increases our capacity for reflection. It enables us to focus our attention on deep matters of the heart, body, and soul. You may discover too that dialing down on noise offers surprising fullness for mind, spirit and body and helps with your health in several ways; lowering of your blood pressure, improving on concentration and focus (calming your racing thoughts), and more. Many distractions and noises flood the world that we are living in, and noise is an inevitable pollution in our modern-day Society, and its severity is increasing day by day. Most of the problems associated with noise are mental, neighborhood noise is worst, very early in the morning before you even get a chance to pray and to get out of your bed, there’s the noise of the weeding machine, in proximity to your home, there’s the music set of a neighbor with the sound system glaring, or the frequent and sometimes unnecessary barking of a dog or dogs. The suffering of residents exposed to noise also is increasing. For that reason, it is important that we make a commitment to take a certain amount of time to practice silence. You may never discover how you can improve on your life when your attention is always being drawn away. A period of SILENCE each day allows you the chance to relax and reduce stress level. Hence, to be quiet sometimes is really beneficial to one’s physical and spiritual progress.
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