Why quiet moments make you uneasy #shorts #psychology

Why can silence feel so uncomfortable? Well, the reality is there is no such thing as silence. I can do it right now. I can ask us to sit here in silence as an experiment. You can see right now. Let me be quiet for 3 seconds and you tell me what you hear. It's not silent, is it? There's room noise. Maybe there's the humming of electricity. Maybe there are people. Maybe there's noise outside, cars. Maybe there's the ticking of a clock. And then beyond all that, even if none of that is in the picture, there are the thoughts in your head. That's not auditory noise, but it's mental noise. So, there is no silence. There's always noise. The question is, how comfortable are we with the noise? Not why is silence uncomfortable, cuz there is no silence. It's why >> [laughter] >> are we not yet comfortable with whatever noise there is around us? And the answer is, we lack acceptance. The answer is that we're at odds with reality. We're still in conflict with reality. Until we've accepted that our life at this moment is exactly the way that it needs to be. And we are at this moment exactly the way that we need to be. And although we're a work in progress, and obviously, we want each day to be better than the last, right now is exactly where it needs to be at this point in the process. And until we're comfortable with that, then we're going to always look for distraction. We're always going to look for louder and louder noises to cover up what we would otherwise be hearing.