Dr. Mario Alonso Puig - ¿Por qué nos incomoda el silencio? Y cómo convertirlo en calma

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

¿Alguna vez has sentido que el silencio te incomoda y te empuja a llenar el espacio con palabras? En esta conversación con Alberto Herrera exploramos por qué sucede: el “parloteo” interior que aumenta cuando bajamos el volumen externo, cómo el entorno moldea nuestra mente, y por qué una pausa de 3–4 segundos en una charla abre puertas a respuestas más profundas. Hablamos de salir de la zona de confort del ruido mental para entrar en la zona de descubrimiento; de la diferencia entre sonido y ruido; y de cómo prácticas sencillas calman la rumiación, mejoran la atención y activan el nervio vago, favoreciendo la serenidad y el descanso. Deseo que esta conversación te invite a abrazar el silencio: a escucharte, a escuchar al otro y a transformar la inquietud en calma. Tal vez descubras que, justo detrás del ruido, te espera una mente más clara, una relación más profunda y una vida con más sentido.🌐⁠⁠Página Web⁠⁠📷⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠▶️⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠📲⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎟️⁠Entradas a la nueva conferencia 2025⁠

Seven seconds in silence. If there was a silence absolute, that in a festival of years is complicated. But it's what is what is a lot of

a man who's in person who is not that we're in the haleo that we're that we're actually, Spain is

in the countries more ruisos of Europe, between the five places more rousousos.

For so no is strange to think that the people we're we're not accustomed to him.

Maria Alonso Puch, good days. Good news. Good days, dear. How are you? I'm doing? And you? I'm fantastically.

Intentated to do silence. It's how you'll prove it. But it's complicated. Because we're, because we're not really-so in Spain? That has a explanation? Well, I think that we're we're just to express ourselves

in a way very abiered, so there's, so there's a part that, effectively, a lot compared to other cultures, but other times that we're not people very abirtas, that we

love to enjoy of the things and that we love to celebrate. It's a combination of the two things. Why not

us incommod the silence in a conversation? There are many more than many more than many words.

Because the silence is one of the things more important in our life and about the

and over the the more difficult curiously or not so curiously about. The

silence of a space for that's a time that that's space

for that one not they're not really because it's in silence then

can't control what can be that's very very

that when a person that person pass two the

first thing that can is that the thing the

question is for the reason the that the we

can we You're the second is that they're Pardon the second is that It's very interesting because, you know, one thinks in the silence absolute and that maybe just exists in the

space and it's it's equal no, because you need a zero vibration in the air, zero movement of particles, zero sound, external and here is where

where you're, where I've understood that neurologically the cerebral even inventes sonnors, no, when when no, when no, when you

know, when you're there, there's, in that's that is the absolute insonorid what the The past is that what can't

avoid these cameras is effectively that's part of the incessant in our mind

analytical, our mind rational, that rumiation, that ruud interior. And that we know

that actually actually do that's much damage, not only in the person,

but also also when one thinks in the silence you're to find to

find two different of different, people who don't want in

desperately the distraction and people that say that's in the silence no could be so these are the two dimensions and there are an example

very clear that is the experience that a person can have been in the desert I've been in some occasion in

some a and the the peace the silence that you can't find out of

the is extraordinary but there people that has generated a great

there there's there there there In some occasion, you know, I mean, you know, I'm

it's always to move the mountain and and go to go to the other side, and I'm trying places very

silencioso. And you know that's my paradise? And, and, talking with a guide,

I've advertied in these years in Norway that the people can talk much, and interruppe

a little. And I think in Spain, we're, I don't know if, I'm sorry,

but I think we We interrupt us more than Norway. And I asked and we talked about

about this and me I said, maybe it's much to be the silence that we're not quite

because you know of the countries less populated or less denses and they have much

naturalness and much silence and that has to influence in the structure

social of a community no? Sure. We are we are we're

we're on the external when a person is in an an environment very rudisoso,

what is what is that there is that there is a little when it's in an entorn more silencioso

to be more conscientious of that that's a real real that there around, he does

a little that that that's not a little to appreciate that that silence that

in the exterior as you have been you have you can't? Why

it? Because it hear because the silence is a space of a cogida.

How I'm going to go to what other person me want to say with the language

verbal and not verbal if I'm with my attention in the the noise that is

not possible then the same way I'm saying, Alberto how

you're you're you have you're you're a so I'm so I

think Alberto how you you're you I'm a

space that that to be a that you can't express a because

you know an an aperture to hear of a particular when somebody when somebody starts

and I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to because at final one never learn of a

whole a better than and I know a thing that I'm when we're

doing we're we're doing and it's that the silence in the radio

you can result very because you're my not don't not even

You're not saying that's something that's, but much times when someone thinks that's that's important to do a response and you're making, you know, I think that's important to, I think, I'm saying, I think that all the people who are listening today, can familiarize with a concept that is the zone of comfort, that is my world or familiar. Well, what I know what I know, what is to do, the office that I've practicated, the profession

that I've exercised, etc. But also, there's a zone of comfort in us, which is a zone familiar, that's the road mental. We're accustomed to, the noise of the world, we've normalized, the noise of the world and the world of the endro.

What you're going to when you start to reduce that room, for example, standing in the natural or with practices of quiet, practices of quiet,

practices of your comfort, and at to get out of your zone of comfort, it's a protest in

form of incomodidid visceral, you want distract, if you want you, if you

don't you know you don't you know, as you know, you

keep you keep you listen, you know, you passas of the zone of the zone of

the discovery, and the area of the information that comes to a new.

For so it's so I'm talking the last of the importance of the meditation and the and the

and the word of you know you've received many of people who have been in this world of the

meditation that have a series of ventas brutal when you're practic during a lot of

when you do you do you know you're going to do you have to you have to you're in

no I don't see silence is the word but in a quietude that you

can't be able to be being that's the message, the most difficult for the world is that his mind is that's a question.

Sure. The acitue has two phases. First, you have to get to answer the silence. And then, to be abrace the silence. Alcancar the silence is, well, because we're

accustomed to this parloteo mental. For that the usencia of that the reason, a person to be much more more solidable, physical and mental we, it generates

tension because it's something of some way new for us if we're little to progressively

with a little progressively with we're going getting to that serenity that calm and it a moment

in the silence not only we've been about we're about

things extraordinary in the camp of the medicine we know the

impact absolutely beneficial that that has that that barazes the

silence that not is the usencia of sonidos, the usencia of noise. You know, you're thinking

now, because we're really rude, we're saying the same four years, we're not churita, would be the

day of the people, I'm a six, seven. Sure, you know, you're not, you're not,

you're not, you're in silence, but is you know, now it's got put this to put

to put into really those ruses, ruses, I'm, I guess, put in the telete

the front of music the radio I can't but I'm sorry like it's like you're

we're a problem but no it's like maybe maybe to think

what you don't know what you I mean no me I'm not I would have to maintain me connected with my country, me would have to

have to be that serenity. I'm saying, I'll go, I'll, I'll, to do emphasis on the same. The silence no, no, needs to the usencia of son-in-o. The radio, could be a son-in-law.

The music is a sound. There son-is in the natural-ece that we can't say that are the rudes. When we're about

the ruse, we're about of a thing different. So, I think

perfectly that a person can't a person, a a dream

more a more time, and a music, or a voice

in the radio that the result harmonica, that that's

that's not we can not we can call we we know

we're we have to get in different what is a

sound of what is a sound not you produce

tension No, no alter the capacity of the body to activate or disactivar the system immune, that is so that I can do make, the sound. The sound is a thing that flue with our physiology.

The noise is still altering our physiology. Not only can produce damage at the level of the organ of court and the organ of the audition, but it's that, we know that has that

has that has been a impact a negative in functions corporalal. We've talked of the

silence physical, the silence emotional, the silence also as a resource artistic

if you want to do you want to be a the silence as a

question, there's there's there's that's that's much people

not that's people , some problems or of external

No, totally. It's like a Spada of Doble Filo, as as well as well as There's a part of the silence that is tremendously Saludable, is the silence, the respect, I said a little, me said a question,

how can you help us help us a person that not want to be able to, and that's passing for a bad moment. I said Presence and silence. Presence and silence. There was a visit I don't remember,

I think it was of the Papa Francisco, I'm sure to the camp of concentration of Auschwich in,

in, in Krakovia and you asked what have you to say to this? I can't guard a silence.

There's a silence that really us commue that really is a real of

respect, yet of the opportunity to be a per and there a silence that's

that's to use to use to use to Islar, there are tortures that has used and

they're as part of his of his instruments for to do that's the silence, the incommunication. We have to

be careful with that. Where do we and how? Well, I think for that a person if a person

to do to do, it has to understand because it's important to do it. And,

you know, one is conscientious if not is meted in this camp and if not is

met with a certain or calado, not is conscientious of that the silence

has been very beneficial. For example, we know that the silence active,

the name the nerve vago anterior that is associated with

all kind of different in the body. The silence is an

opportunity to enter in contact with dimensions more more

more of the life. The silence also to superar juicions critiques and find out of

something that you help to know, and understand you know, the silence as I've commented before

can help a person that's going to be a moment of duel. The silence helps

to help to be when a person enter in this form of silence and the parloteo

mental of some kind of a paciwork and a not a a thought not a

a very a very reflection. And when one reflexion what is different

to if you are you are doing automatically and you, and I consider that

the art is one of the things most marvellous that there there's a capilla

in Houston where Texas where there there there

there various quadros of Rodco so I know

I've been there, the last time that if God wants, I'll visit her. And in this capilla, the people say that what they're experimenting is incredible. Well, precisely, Rodko, with those quadros that are of tonalities

very oscuras, that are tracos, what he wanted precisely was to generate that that space of silence.

And I know people who have been in that capilla, it's a capilla where, you just have the pancos

to sit- and and I have said that they've been quite very

impacted of experiences that have been the silence nother dimensions

ontological to metaphysic but we're we're so we're

so in a world material in a world where only

we we're the really the silence us perhaps something to

end not capacities that extraordinary that's that's that's through the

silence, for example, the creativity.