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Ritual silence can be very powerful. Simply keeping silence together can be a powerful part or a whole ritual. It can mean that the relationship is so close that not everything needs to be said aloud and not every moment needs to be entertaining. In a world where every second is filled with talk, music, or alerts, creating the space for silence can be the most powerful time together possible. In my experience, almost every community appreciates a silence ritual when there’s painful loss. When I was a chaplain in a trauma center and attended to families in the worst hours of their lives, I saw how important it was for them to have someone sit with them in silence, and even someone who would protect the silence, so they didn’t feel the need to say anything. Silence together can be the most powerful time.
The Art of Community
Charles Vogl
We are a nation besieged by stress, whether it’s related to career, family, finances, romance, current events, or health problems. Once you’re ramped up, though, it’s overly difficult for your physiology to recover. You’re driving a car that has no trouble reaching a high speed but is incapable of slowing down. This is true for most of us. Think about it: When you narrowly avoid an accident on the way to work or school or get into a heated confrontation with a family member, do you feel your heart rate speed up in the moment, then swiftly return to normal as you proceed with your day? Or does it take you a while to stop ruminating or replaying the incident and release that stress? For most people, the latter scenario is more common and is indicative of sympathetic dominance—an overactive sympathetic nervous system that keeps you stuck in a state of fight-or-flight longer than necessary.
Heart Breath Mind
Leah Lagos
Vasilios was listening so intently, Chris had to prompt him to translate. “The Germans didn’t know us, and they believed they could not lose,” Yiorgos continued. “They believed they’d never have to look anyone in the face and explain. They’d never have to pay for what they did. And I believe that is why we defeated them.” Because we have to answer to one another, and they did not
Natural Born Heroes
Christopher McDougall
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