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Not just the sounds of noise, but the mental busyness as noise... a child's mind is so much less full. As adults we get so accustomed to "noise" that we often
by blunte 9y ago
Not just the sounds of noise, but the mental busyness as noise... a child's mind is so much less full.
As adults we get so accustomed to "noise" that we often don't realize it's there. Every time I turn around, I have taxes or some other painful administrative thing to do. That's noise in my head that buzzes quietly at times or very loudly as a deadline approaches.
We have job noise - projects, human conflicts, financial concerns etc. There are home relationship noises - fears, doubts, conflicts, whatever.
This is why I suspect the practitioners of meditation claim to have so much peace and such improved intentional focus: they have learned how to turn down the background noise in their minds.
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- noir_lord 9y ago> This is why I suspect the practitioners of meditation claim to have so much peace and such improved intentional focus: they have learned how to turn down the background noise in their minds. I play Chess, I'm not good but when I'm playing for an hour or two I completely don't think about anything else at all, it's mentally draining but in a good way (I find it the mental equivalent of a long bike ride). In fact my perfect day would be two hours of chess and a three hour bike ride then a nap.
- magic_beans 9y agoPerhaps I was a more troubled child, but my mind was constantly full of buzzing, illogical anxieties when I was a kid. Only now have I been able to outgrow them, and my mind is much more soothed.
- blunte 9y agoThere's good buzz and bad buzz. Or maybe I should say constructive and destructive. It's possible for the mind to be so flooded with ideas and solutions and other creative thoughts that it can be difficult to focus and complete any one thing before the next demands attention. Either way, gaining some control or having some tool to choose when to quiet the noise can be very beneficial.