Most adults rarely experience true silence. Music, podcasts, TV, conversation, phone scrolling fill almost all waking time. Five to ten minutes of daily silence (not meditation in formal sense — just sitting without input) produces benefits most people skip.
What happens in the silence
Mind sorts and processes accumulated input. Stress drops measurably. Anxiety often surfaces and dissipates without action required. Insights about decisions and patterns emerge that constant input drowns out.
Try 5 minutes daily for 2 weeks. Most users find it harder than expected initially, then transformative. The discomfort is the point.