The Art of Silent Communication
24 January 2005
Yesterday I spent a day without speaking. My first (first of many I hope).
What inspired me was the book Autobiography of a Yogi where ------- meets with Ghandi on a day when Mohandas was not speaking.
As such, Ghandi would write short sentences on a paper and ----- would do all the talking.
Obviously, the main question is why do such a session? Why not talk for a whole day? Why deprive oneself, voluntarily, of the main method of communication (for most people at least)?
The most obvious reason, and the one I will, due to time constraints, limit myself to mentioning is based on how one seems to give more importance to something when he is deprived of it.
People talk everyday, all the time, from a simple, generally automatic, "How`s it going?" to a, hopefully, more conscious: "I love you".
Singing under the shower, answering a phone, ordering a meal, there are so many actions/occasions when words leave your mouth.
Most people have not spent a single day of their lives without talking! 50 years, always talking.
To a certain point the words which one pronounces start to lose their meaning their intention. They lose their strength. One, without even trying to be aware of this, feels the effects. You notice how someone who talks a lot seems to tire you and bore you. You notice how the words that a more quiet person seem to touch you deeper.
This is not unique to verbal communication but extends itself to all other areas.
It is the intention behind each step that makes a well coreografed dance so fixating. The presence of a reason behind each movement.
Music too, sound with intention.
Food, when well made and when not eaten for pure gluttony, has so much intention and appeals so much to our senses!
Each one of our senses is of utmost importance, if one wants it to be, and when one masters not only the capacity to perceive the world through their senses but also to efficiently communicate with them then he/she can really understand, through experience, the Universe.
Yesterday I spent a day without speaking. My first (first of many I hope).
What inspired me was the book Autobiography of a Yogi where ------- meets with Ghandi on a day when Mohandas was not speaking.
As such, Ghandi would write short sentences on a paper and ----- would do all the talking.
Obviously, the main question is why do such a session? Why not talk for a whole day? Why deprive oneself, voluntarily, of the main method of communication (for most people at least)?
The most obvious reason, and the one I will, due to time constraints, limit myself to mentioning is based on how one seems to give more importance to something when he is deprived of it.
People talk everyday, all the time, from a simple, generally automatic, "How`s it going?" to a, hopefully, more conscious: "I love you".
Singing under the shower, answering a phone, ordering a meal, there are so many actions/occasions when words leave your mouth.
Most people have not spent a single day of their lives without talking! 50 years, always talking.
To a certain point the words which one pronounces start to lose their meaning their intention. They lose their strength. One, without even trying to be aware of this, feels the effects. You notice how someone who talks a lot seems to tire you and bore you. You notice how the words that a more quiet person seem to touch you deeper.
This is not unique to verbal communication but extends itself to all other areas.
It is the intention behind each step that makes a well coreografed dance so fixating. The presence of a reason behind each movement.
Music too, sound with intention.
Food, when well made and when not eaten for pure gluttony, has so much intention and appeals so much to our senses!
Each one of our senses is of utmost importance, if one wants it to be, and when one masters not only the capacity to perceive the world through their senses but also to efficiently communicate with them then he/she can really understand, through experience, the Universe.
posted by dr. plim @ 2:17 AM
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