#396: Radio 📻 Silence.. - What You Hear, When The SubConscious Speaks.

We challenge ourselves to drive with no radio, no music, and no calls, then watch what our minds do when the noise finally stops. We connect silence to better ideas, deeper introspection, and real mental healing, from simple quiet routines to the extreme calm of a float tank. 
• choosing “radio silence” to reduce noise pollution 
• noticing new thoughts and ideas once inputs stop 
• watching the subconscious rise into awareness 
• using sensory deprivation float tanks as a model for deep quiet 
• building a repeatable routine because no one manages our thoughts for us 
• treating the mind like a maze and using silence to resolve conflict 
Turn off the noise pollution, get some silence 
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Transcript

Why Choose Radio Silence

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Radio silence. You know, I've been doing this thing lately, uh, which by the way, as I was doing it, I heard Joe Rogan talk about um clearing your thoughts and clearing your mind by uh driving around and not turning on the radio or Spotify music, whatever, right? Uh not making phone calls, not doing anything. And uh the reason why is because how often do you actually go without silence? And not just that, for how long? The world, I mean, it's filled full of like uh all types of pollution. It's got you know pollution on the ground, they got something called light pollution, like too many lights uh in a city, you can't see the sky. But what about noise pollution? What about how often do you just go without with just like complete silence? And I've noticed that by doing so when driving, I'm getting new thoughts, new ideas, and I'm just being a lot more introspective. I think it's a an interesting uh concept and idea, and and like I said, I've been doing it um because I I feel like how do you know what you're missing unless you start to look for it? How do you know that it's like the thoughts that I get when when I'm completely quiet? First off, it's like my mind starts wandering around and I'm start telling myself, all right, what am I doing? And then a couple minutes later, it's like your mind just starts drifting. And it's a fun little exercise because especially as a comedian, but you doing anything in your life, whatever it is, your subconscious starts to come to the front of your mind, and it starts to lead you in ways that if you wrote it down on paper, if I were to, you know, drive around with no music, uh, this is what I would probably think about. It would be somewhere completely different, 99.99% sure, right? Um, than where you thought it would be. And I feel like it's healthy because uh, you know, like I said, I just I'm really always trying to think differently and be introspective. But um the amount of information that I get, 99%, it's always incoming. It's like if your body was in and it was like a radio or something, all the signals are always incoming, right? And less than 1%, if you even activate it, is outgoing. But the second you turn off everything, you know. I remember one time I actually did one of those um it's like uh a float tank where it's like a sensory deprivation tank. And they say you can actually hallucinate or dream uh while you're awake, which sounds crazy, but the whole concept behind it is that you're not using any of your senses, you're in complete silence. Um and it was a really interesting experience, but uh anyway, point is the whole the whole uh point of doing the um what's it called? The the pod thing is um to just essentially be awake and shut off all your senses. And it has like a has something like a thousand or ten thousand pounds of salt. So when you lie on this in this tank, this float tank, your body literally pushes up in the water. It's really crazy, it's a wild experience. But um, yeah, so I just had to get this out because everything that I do, I always try to um I try to notate, I try to make a repetition of, I try to um kind of make like a note to self kind of a thing. But if anybody listens to this and you just try it yourself, I feel like if you make a routine out of it, you're gonna get something from it. I think part of the hardest things in life is that no one is managing your own thoughts, no one's managing uh your schedule, no one is managing your uh your production, your success, your relationship, no one is managing anything, right? Um and I don't really know what the routine is as far as how often or what you do or when you would do this, but what I'm trying to get at is that you need to do it. It has to be done, and it's really, really, really, really healthy for you. So I'm gonna get off the phone right now as I'm driving on this beautiful rainy day. I love the rain, it just helps me relax and keep listening to silence. But as I was in the middle of doing what I was doing before I started this, I thought to myself, I gotta get this out. So that's why I'm doing making this little audio right now. So with that being mentioned, I hope everybody has a beautiful day. Turn off the noise pollution, get some silence, and just let your uh bring your subconscious to your conscious. Let you know, let your mind heal, resolve some conflict. You know, it's like your mind is always like a maze, and you're always kind of stuck on it. But find a way out of that maze through your subconsciousness, and uh just come out on the other side, and I guarantee you'll feel better. You might feel like you're going a little crazy without a radio or something like that, but just let just let that moment pass and then just get to the other side and then just relax, and then you know, you can meditate. All right, guys, have a beautiful day. I'm Ben Joel Done. Check me out. Peace.