Is silence and solitude good for you?

By Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado)

Samir Heffley found something terrifying in a beautiful barn in the North Carolina mountains.

Silence.

It was 1979, and Heffley, a newly trained clinical psychologist, picked up a book, where he read about a “silence and seclusion retreat.” Seven days of no contact with anyone else, centered on one simple meditation practice: being aware of your incoming and