The Quieter You Become, The More You Can Hear.

✨The quieter you become, the more you can hear.✨

A 2015 article from the University of Buffalo states that noise changes the way our brain receives information.

Researchers from UB and John Hopkins University studied the effects of living in noisy habitats. When testing a group of mice that had received prolonged loud sound exposure, they discovered that their nerve and brain cells changed significantly in response to environmental factors.

“When the ear is exposed to a noise, cells in the auditory nerve release chemicals called neurotransmitters. These chemicals tell the brain that the ear has been stimulated. That’s how we hear.”

Constant exposure to noisy environments can cause these chemicals to deplete at a faster rate. In response to this, the brain will adjust the release of rate of these chemicals—essentially changing what and how you process background noise, so it can have chemicals available for alerting your brain when a new sound appears in your environment.

The researchers also learned when the mice were returned to quiet habitats, the auditory nerves adjust back *down* to be more efficient and sensitive to sounds in the new environment.

Amazing, huh.

Interested in a short practice? Take 1 minute to mute your phone, TV, music, etc. and tune into this sound meditation, which helps to restore balance to our senses, especially hearing.

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