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Trust Your Silent Voice: Find Your Power | Eliana Gilad | TEDxSanJuanIsland


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let’s explore the power of silence by
listening to it connecting to it after I
sing into this drum for a minute or so
and please refrain from applause because
that way we’ll be able to fully fully
fully did I say fully experience the
power of the silence that is actually
behind the sound
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sound doesn’t have to be loud to be
powerful
the human ear hears at the range between
20 and 20,000 Hertz ultra sound is above
the range of human hearing
bats whales porpoises dolphins they all
use ultrasound for navigation and bat
they constructively use sound waves to
avoid obstacles they can hear at the
level of 100,000 Hertz so did you know
that wildlife experts they actually
believe that animals acute hearing and
other senses enable them to hear the
vibration of the earth such that it
helps them to avert disaster long before
human beings ever know what’s going on
in fact in 2004 before the tsunami hit
the animals they went for the hills for
the heights and they avoid a disaster
consider this ultrasound it sees into
the womb and it translates vibration
into pictures
now our mind logically thinks that it is
the equipment that’s doing the work when
it’s actually the vibration or the
silent sound that is translating and
creating the predictable system for
medical uses now silent sound is so
potent that it can levitate matter and
we’re gonna see this in a moment but
first go back if you’ll remember the old
old old tale of the magical parting of
the waters where the Egyptians are in
hot pursuit of the Hebrews and they’re
forcing them into the Seas and that
actually tells of the prophetess Miriam
with drum in hand very similar to this
leading the women with drums in their
hands across the waters singing and
dance
and that’s a beautiful tale but think
about it it’s not logical if they were
going across the waters look at this
drum its skin wet skin no sound in
reality sound can do this it’s the
silence between the sound it’s most
potent so let’s watch right now as this
Russian science exhibition uses silent
sound to raise rocks
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is that cool
now the amazing thing is is that sound
waves are the first manifestation from
vibration into physical matter we can
sculpt sound ways even though we don’t
see them now Swiss scientists at ETH
University in Zurich have actually
proven that sound can part water
so let’s look now at 24 Hertz of sound
parting waters okay now watch them
that’s not enough watch this one this is
25 Hertz of silent sound bending to
create an upward spiral
pretty cool one of the most powerful
sounds is the human voice our physical
voice expresses cognitive sounds such as
I’m speaking in language right now and
you’re hearing that in the outside world
the inner voice the inside voice we hear
inside but it’s virtually silent to the
outside world
now psychologists at the university of
nevada proved that up to 25 percent of
our waking day is spent silently
speaking to ourselves otherwise
self-talk now sound can be used
constructively and sound can be used
destructively when we are trusting that
silent voice inside then it empowers us
and we can share our ideas with the
world and when we engage in that
negative self-talk
it stops us from sharing our ideas with
the world
we certainly don’t share them in public
and it keeps us from sharing in
relationships and contributing to them
would we dare listen to our silent voice
inside it empowers us to express our
gifts with others have you ever had a
hunch about something anything and what
I mean by hunch is when you stop talking
and you hear that inner message inside
through words that’s what it means to
follow your hunch and when you dare
listen beyond the negative self-talk or
the chatter then you give yourself space
and something new can happen and what
I’m suggesting here is that this
component is majorly important and you
should really pay attention to it so
have you ever had a hunch about
something but you couldn’t prove it
yeah so what did you do did you act upon
it saying if I don’t act upon it I won’t
know whether it was real or not and how
many brilliant ideas
how many brilliant innovations never see
the light of day because we refuse to
act upon them until we can prove
something outside before we’re willing
to trust that silent voice inside that’s
guiding us in my case I did dare to
listen and I dared to see things
differently and do things differently
and following that silent voice ended up
in a three-year funded medical research
project that has today become a
benchmark in the field of sound therapy
and following that hunch has taken me
from China has taken me to Europe has
taken me to the Middle East to help
other people other professionals to
trust their voice and to share their
voice and their brilliant gifts with the
world but you know what it took me more
than 10 years to utter a word to dare to
speak one word because why I was
terrified that they would send me to the
loony bin right what doesn’t make sense
but it’s not proven yet it had been
proven I proven it in my own field in my
own work but in the modern world when we
want to bring something forward right it
needs to be proven we have to prove it
out so that people who don’t know about
it can trust it and to feel safe so for
me it was really believing that what I
was hearing
inside that silent voice was real and if
I had not dared to stop and listened to
it
if I had not dared to trust what I was
hearing and if I had not dared to have
the courage to act upon it
there is absolutely no way that I could
be standing here right now speaking to
you so imagine for yourself how would
your life be different if you dared stop
and listen to that silent voice within
what would happen if you would dare
trust what you’re hearing and oh my god
what would happen if you had the courage
to act upon it
you’d have clarity and you’d know what
to do next
and we would all benefit from your gifts
and imagine a world where more and more
of us are doing that what kind of world
will we be living in and that amazing
thing is no one knows better than us
you’re the leader it’s your voice and
nobody knows that better than you so
just because we don’t hear the sound
doesn’t mean that it’s not having an
effect upon us and upon other people now
the human voice is a bridge between our
inner world and our outer world and in
essence when we go to share our voice
we’re baring our souls and that is
vulnerable it is it’s vulnerable so it’s
no wonder that the National Institute of
Mental Health shows that 3 out of every
4 human being suffers from speech
anxiety technically known as
glossophobia glossa derived from the
greek meaning tongue and Phobos meaning
dread fear anxiety the healing sound
research that we conducted in clinical
settings showed that mindful use of
silent sound lowers stress
and increases focus MRI scan show the
effect of mindfulness upon the amygdala
which is the brains fighter flight
Center it appears to shrink now the
proven system that we found to work over
and over and over again to decrease
stress and to increase focus had three
elements number one connection
connecting to the source of the sound
which is silence number two courage
courage to trust without judgment and
allowing the sound to determine the
results and then number three confidence
because once we saw that the system was
working it provided more confidence to
go use it in a variety of settings and
variety of applications so what I would
like to do right now is a little
experiment so if you have anything in
your hands pens papers put them down
okay and notice right now what your mind
is thinking and the thing is there’s no
right or wrong way to do this it’s like
a before-and-after experiment so you
can’t can’t flip it up just notice what
your mind is thinking and notice how
your body is feeling where there may be
stress sitting for a long while what the
mind is chattering and then I’m going to
sing again into this drum this is the
oldest drum known to mankind it dates
between seven and ten thousand years old
and then afterwards we’ll take another
several moments of silence to allow for
you then we’ll notice the after effect
notice what your mind is thinking at
that point how your body is feeling at
that point and again let’s refrain from
applause so that you can really
experience the full power of the silence
behind the sound you ready
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when our inner voice and our outer voice
when the two of them are aligned and
they’re working together the result is
harmony you’re centered no matter what’s
going on around you and you know what to
do next so why is it important to trust
the silence it’s a golden opportunity
when you stop to listen you connect to
your inner calm and when you trust your
silent voice inside it gives you courage
to act upon your hunches and frankly
what are you missing by not listening to
your silent voice inside and not
trusting it because when you do you’ll
hear something new and wonderful things
can happen you give yourself that space
inside and amazing new things can happen
in your life what are you waiting for
thank you
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