Natural sounds
If we add short moments of not being stimulated by sound and visual impressions, however, the stress hormones can be lowered very quickly, research shows. It doesn’t have to be total silence, but it does well with a calm environment and soothing natural sounds that can be found outside in nature, for example.
– Noise reduction is mainly about trying to reduce artificial noise and this idea of busyness. We live today in an attention economy. It is not an information economy anymore. There is as much information as you like. Rather, it is about how we process the information. Our brain can’t process if we just keep filling up. If you are going to be able to process something, you have to create the mental space for it, says Ulrica Norberg to MåBra.
The need for mental recovery is great in society today, this can be seen, among other things, in the statistics on how many people have problems with stress and exhaustion.
Read more: List: How to break stress that can lead to exhaustion
Increase awareness
Creating time for calm and “just being” – without external stimulation is the key. And to increase awareness of the need.
– Book short, regular breaks. Five minutes to just sit and close your eyes. Ulrica Norberg advises what you did in the old days, that you lay down on the kitchen sofa for a bit, and continues:
– I think that it is extremely important in our world that people feel that there is a value, that there is a need that you satisfy for the sake of your own health. Then it suddenly becomes attractive.
Effective tools for those who want to explore and work more with their inner peace and catch up with themselves and recharge their batteries, for example, can be mindfulness – conscious presence and yoga.
She emphasizes that noise does not necessarily have to be negative.
– My driving force with the silence has been to master my mental space better, recharge myself and find clarity. But I love sound. I love music. I have no problem with noise. We just need to learn to relate to it, and find silence in relation to the noise.
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