The power and benefits of being silent

Shhh.. be silent and be still. Don’t make any noise. Keeping in silence has a lot of advantages.  In achieving your desire, goals, business dealings,  relationships or health benefits.  There is power in silence. There are lots of health benefits of silence such as lowering your blood pressure, improving your concentration and focus, calming racing thoughts, stimulating brain growth, reducing cortisol, stimulating creativity, improving insomnia and encouraging mindfulness.

But there is more when it comes to the outside world we live in, even with somebody that is in outrage who is about to explode in anger.

Benefits of being silent:

1. You hear more.  The silence you are, the more you hear your surroundings.  The more you hear the more you acquire knowledge. 
2. Recognize danger. By being silent you can adhere to the environment and recognize if it is going to be harmful to you. Even listening and hearing your body is important in recognizing what is going on. 
3. Ability to hear ideas.  You can easily grab ideas by listening to your inner mind and thoughts. 
4. Boosts your creativity. It stimulates our creative minds. By being silent we can be more creative in what we do and do more for less. An open mind is a quiet mind.
5. Powerful messages through silence.  Directing your mind while in silence to something or to someone can send a signal or a message to it or to them. 
6. Make other people think. When you are silent,  the other person will assume a lot of things that bring advantages or disadvantages to you. But often than not, you are on the winning side.
7. Keep calm and relaxed.  Because of the busyness and stress of the world in your mind, you forget to keep silent and relax. 

The power of being silent is demonstrated almost all the time, but are you using that silence to your advantage?  Even memorials have a big impact in silence.  People are able to contemplate on memorable things. Even tragedy has no amount of words but silence is the only thing that you can do.  Use silence to your own advantage. Being mindful of what state you are in is also very important.

Silence is very powerful weapon especially when you know when and how to use it.  Silence is more eloquent than words.  A meaningful silence is always better than meaningless words. Did you know you gain more in silence than speaking? Let us learn how to be silent and use it to our advantage.