Tonic: Turning Down The Noise
Christine Jackman is a talker. Bring up just about any subject and she can converse – fluently and entertainingly – on the topic. She is not the sort of person you would think would be eager to go on a 10-day silent retreat. That, however, is exactly what she did. And then she wrote a book about it.
More accurately, Christine’s book, Turning Down the Noise: The Quiet Power of Silence in a Busy World, examines the one thing that many of us are missing from our hyper-stimulated, overscheduled lives: silence. Along the way, she discovers the many ways that noise, both acoustic and digital, is actually making us ill.