Everyone I speak to says, "no, I could never do that."

I think everyone could do it, it is just a perception or view of how you look at it. Mostly I feel it is fear that says, "no, I could never be quiet even for one day." But what if you lived in the north woods of England in 500ad alone with no person around for about a year, or you learned how to slowly still all the noise of our outside world and quarantined your brain from noise and then your body got use to not living on adrenaline rushes, and all stress was gone and you fell in love with sound of silence and stillness? Then you could go on a week of silent retreat. So, yes, you could, and everyone else could do it, it is a matter of a sequential step by step process of slowing you mind down so that the SOUL can speak it's still small voice. Would not that be a better way to go, live, and thrive? I think it is fear that keeps us from getting in touch with our inner selves for we are familiar and comfortable to the normal of chaos and adrenaline rushes. But it seems from everything from the bible and the teachings of great spiritual leaders points that truth, life, reality, groundedness, stability, wisdom, peace, settledness, and wholeness comes from being authentically ourselves which comes up from the soul. If we are daily on a diet of chaos, noise, talking, racing minds, news, negativity, running, and doing stuff, which is really vain emptiness isn't that a misalignment of wholeness, which is missing the mark of God's perfect intention? So should we keep with the familiar safe drug of choice the noisy clamor of racing minds and trying to figure things out with the brain, or choose to step by step slow our minds down to a quiet purr so that the eternal precious, priceless, indestructible, creative, in the image of God, with the likeness and breath of God, be tapped into so that we begin to find the beginning touches of God's perfect peace and happiness from the divine spark which is been given to us and is mostly laying there dormant? Why not begin to allow the soul to awaken and bloom and begin to show it individuality and unique special wonder?
Yea, I think a week is far to short of a time, but it is a start. How about year of silence, that could be a challenge for someone who is a 21st century American.
What do you think? Rumble's Ramblings.....................