Find Hope: Quiet Your Mind, Unlock Listening Power

Discover the Transformative Impact of Mindful Silence and Deep Listening in Your Daily Life.

You’re not really listening at all.

You can only listen when your mind is quiet — when you’re at peace with yourself and don’t feel the need to prove anything to anyone. In those moments, your mind doesn’t react immediately, and there’s a pause between what is being said to you and how you respond to it.

It’s in that pause, and only in that pause, that silence exists — a gap, an emptiness. And in that emptiness, there’s an understanding different from intellectual understanding.

When there’s a space between what’s spoken and your response, in that interval — whether you stretch it out or it lasts just a few seconds — you’ll notice that clarity emerges.

This interval is connected to the neocortex.

Immediate reactions are from the reptilian brain, which operates in its familiar, reactive, and primal ways.