Time teaches us many things. One of the major lessons from time is “the power of silence”. The more inexperienced we are with life, more do we feel the necessity of speaking up. We wish to clarify every details of our interactions. We are usually intolerant to us being misinterpreted. There are situations when we can reflect and appreciate that by speaking up things got misjudged.
Time teaches that silence at times is golden. This is more so when interactions are sensitive often with near and dear ones. In official matters, it’s mandatory to speak up and be clear about every details. However, every scenario does not call for exhaustive elucidation. There are circumstances when it makes no difference to remain distorted. Not everyone deserves our explanation.
During the course of a day looking back one can often comprehend that not every conversation was crucial or profound. It’s very often prudent to remain in silence and let action prove the truth. A properly placed moment of silence can often heal a lot of unexpressed sorrow. When interaction is between level headed people who are intellectually and emotionally at par, silence can be ground breaking.
All misunderstandings and emotional anguish is often a result of lambasting and harangue. When one learns to live with tranquility through that moment of adrenaline outburst shall the glow of silence be visible. Our behaviour is scientifically governed by a balance of hormones where the hypothalamus located deep inside the brain plays a role of governance. Endorphins, serotonin, oxytocin and dopamine are the happy hormones. Whereas adrenaline rush causes anxiety, hypertension, insomnia, indigestion and cardiac disorders. Certain activities like exercise, relaxation, good sleep, meditation help in the surge of hormones that bring calmness and tranquility.
The balance of our reactions is within the bandwidth of our lifestyle and how we work towards making it healthy. Reactions are innate to human but the ability to mould, hold and modify how we react is the refinement one can achieve with the perseverance of conscious strive to grip on our primitive responses.
Silence is not weakness it’s in fact the ultimate strength of resilience where kinship is involved. In circumstances of official interactions prudent use of language is a skill of the erudite. The ability to choose silence over words is an expertise learnt from stumbles of unhappiness we created in the past from talking beyond necessity.
Silence is golden.
Words are powerful.
The ability to choose is a skill of the maestro who’s learnt the music of life.