Annie Lincoln, a 35-year-old dental lab technician, said she struggles to find silence in her day-to-day life. Her world is filled with noise as she runs a business and takes care of her family – not ...

New Year’s Eve in the U.S. is usually celebrated with general overindulgence, but in Bali, the holiday — which fell on Thursday in accordance to the Balinese calendar — is marked with silence, fasting ...

Silence seems harmless until you’re trapped in it with nothing but your own thoughts. In this experiment, we sat through a full 60 minutes of absolute quiet to see what really happens. The first few ...

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As my plane prepares to taxi and the captain continues crackling indecipherable debriefs over the speakers, I’m at the point where I’d usually turn my phone off of airplane mode. A deluge of WhatsApp ...

In the midst of our busy schedules, finding moments of silence can be a challenging task. However, a compelling body of scientific research now suggests that the act of sitting in silence for just two ...