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The silence and stillness brought to us by the act of meditation can lead to awareness of our consciousness – and insights about the nature of selfhood.

Urban living brings with it great intellectual gains, yet living outside in nature can bring manifold benefits, too.

As the literature of recent centuries shows, our relationship with silence – as ritual, as protective, as deathly – has a long and rich history.

American acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton takes us on a sound trip to the first quiet park on Earth, where we can hear the gentle sounds of the Zabalo River, nestled deep in the Amazon rainforest.

Silence is so difficult to find; even when we think we’ve found it, we still have to deal with our own internal psychological noise.

“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence,” instructs Max Ehrmann in his “Desiderata”. But why is the poem so popular in Poland?

For most of us, exposure to noise is inescapable (and is only getting worse). Its consequences for our health are manifold.

When was the last time that you were truly surrounded by silence? City life is inevitably always accompanied by noise, and it’s a growing problem for our health.

Noise is all around us. So it has been, ever since we swapped our hunter-gatherer lifestyle for city-living – which is where the ancients’ complicated relationship with silence began…

Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton talks about the sound of melting snow, what it means to truly listen, and how silence continues to creep away from us.

American acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton takes us on a sound trip to the first quiet park on Earth, where we can hear the gentle sounds of the Zabalo River, nestled deep in the Amazon rainforest.

There is a quiet space between the stimulus and the reaction. In this space, our greatest strength awaits: the power of choice.