Silence is a great virtue. It makes you appear wise even when you are foolish. It makes you look internally strong even when you are weak and it protects you from unnecessary trouble.
Great people in history have always encouraged people to be more quiet as it will help them live safer and more fulfilled lives.
However, while it is a rewarding virtue, it is quite difficult to build it in our lives. When we decide we are going to be more quiet from now onwards, we often forget ourselves and go on with our talkative habit and then later on realize what we had said we would do and regret. This keeps recurring until we throw in the towel and forget about it.
However, we can use meditation to avoid that from happening and make permanent change.
There are many meditation styles that can help us with becoming more silent, and mindfulness meditation is one of them. It allows us to be aware of ourselves and get to know when we talk too much and the topics that get us going on and on.
Being aware of such situations and also our minds, where thoughts of these topics and more content for the topics come from, helps us to regulate them and in turn have a fairly easier time becoming quiet.
Here’s a detailed piece that has gone deep into how to use mindfulness meditation to build silence and make it stick in the long term that is quite handy for someone looking for a practical approach to this approach.