The Gifts of

Silence

Feel the presence of peace all around you and deep inside of you. Peace is the ongoing steady reality that exists throughout all time. Everything else is changing. Each of us can be an anchor of peace in the world.

Silence washes our awareness. Our retreat invites us to receive peace and quiet, giving us the opportunity to receive the beauty in nature, meditation, the present moment, the simplicity of just being. In a silent retreat we can touch the sacred inside of us.
These are precious days free from our daily story and all that we are doing. In the quiet we open to the peace that is in our hearts. Silence allows everyone the opportunity to stay with their own thoughts, their inner experience.
The quiet helps everyone find this inner place of love and beauty that is always present but mostly covered up by busy-ness. The gift of silence is having nothing to do, nothing to say, having time to enjoy solitude, gentleness, a quiet mind.
A few days of simple peace and we feel new again, more in touch with our essence. The silence is the doorway into our own spirituality, truth, wisdom.
All traditions welcome.

When we are not busy talking, our mind takes a rest. Our heart becomes more available. The silence outside helps us to find the still place inside. This is our silent retreat, the vast quietude of the heart. A few days of simple peace and we feel new again, heart centered, grounded, more whole. The silence is the doorway into our own spirituality, truth and wisdom.

Healing effects of

Silence

Silence is therapeutic on all levels and at the same time it is a doorway to inner peace. Silence is the medicine that balances a stressful life. It becomes the inner resource of gentleness, love and grace that creates a bridge from the heart into the world.

Physically

Calms the nervous system

Floods the cells with healthy, naturally occurring, brain chemicals that build immunity

Promotes healthy sleep

Reduces blood pressure

Reduces heart rate

Mentally

Softens attitude, worry, and judgment

Restores appreciation, gratitude

Creates mental clarity

Contentment arises

Opens creativity

Life choices come into alignment with your heart

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Emotionally

Clears heavy emotions

Dissolves fear

Heals stress

Compassion is naturally present

Builds better relationships

Builds emotional stability

Spiritually

Experience of oneness

Gain higher perspective on life

Expansive feeling of freedom

Connection to the Divine, a love beyond words, discovering the universe within

Inner Wisdom is readily available, answers found in one's own self.

Experiencing your true nature perfect as it is

Enter timelessness, eternity

Sense effortless being, wholeness, completeness

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Articles:

1. What we can learn from solitude. New York Times

2. What hermits can teach us. Dearborn.org

3. Why silence is good for your brain. Huffington Post

4. Neuroscience reveals what happens to the brain during silence: Benefits of meditation and listening to nothing Inquisitor, Inquisitir

5. Five health benefits of Silence Medical Daily

6. Science says Silence is Vital for our Brain Uplift Connect

7. Noise exposure is becoming "the new secondhand smoke" Washington Post

8. A Silent Retreat: A gift for Caregivers. Huffington Post

9. The New Paradigm- Heart Intelligence, Huffington Post

10. Why Are So Many People Seeking the Silence in Silent Retreats? Huffington Post

11. Silence Emerges as a way to boost health. Wall Street Journal

12. The Gifts of Silence by Bruce Davis PhD. Huffington Post

13. How listening to silence changes our brains. TIME

14. Our brains on Silence. FORBES

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