My world has been increasingly noisy for more than a decade. I've three children, two dogs, a demanding career, and an extrovert husband.
I’ve three children, two dogs, a demanding career, an extrovert husband, four siblings. The radio is always on. Requests for snacks, to repair torn tracksuit bottoms, to give someone a lift are endless, and that’s before the fights over which kid the dogs love best, over unequal slices of cake, of disproportionate bedtime comparative to age. The phone beeps, the dishwasher churns, the builders next door sing Beyoncé all day. I put my headphones in so I can write, just to drown the noise.
Apart from the obvious mindfulness, sitting with quiet can help reduce blood pressure. Another study found that a two-minute period of silence after listening to music significantly reduced subjects’ heart rate and blood pressure. Even compared to slow, relaxing music, silence resulted in greater decreases in these important measures of heart health.Scientists are continuing to discover the benefits of turning down the noise dial on physical and emotional wellbeing.in mice.
“When we’re frazzled, our fight-or-flight response is on overload causing a host of problems,” says psychologist Amy Sullivan. “We can use calm, quiet moments to tap into a different part of the nervous system to help shut down our body’s physical response to stress.” Those responses can increase heart rate, increase muscle tension, quicken our breathing.
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