When I read that we had to do this assignment my first thought was this is going to be a long week, but then I thought about it and actually thought and hour of silence a day would be great for me to be able to relax my mind and step away from what was going on in my life. However, I soon found out how hard it is to be incomplete silence with no technology around me for one hour, but the hour seemed like a day to me. I can understand the positives of doing and exercise like this, and can see the benefit that people can have in there life if they did something similar, although, for me in today's society I think it is something that I would have to really work at for a while to be able to get something out of it. Its easy to just sit there for and hour I believe, but the key to this assignment for me was to sit in attentive silence and to turn off all technology off around me. My first thing that I realised was that I was fiddling and playing with my hands a lot, I think I was doing this because I am so use to having my cell phone in my hand, playing on my laptop, having something in my hands. Consequently, I would soon start to feel really anxious with just sitting there and would start to feel the urge to stand up and move around, although I was able to restrain myself and sit therefore the whole hour it was definitely a mental battle for me. The other crazy thought that I would be thinking in my mind as I would sit there for and hour doing nothing was that I felt like I was wasting my time and not being a productive person of society. In today's society we are all always so busy and on the go that when we actually sit down for and hour and totally try and relax our minds we struggle to do so. Relaxing the mind is like anything we do, we can all relax our mind to a certain point but if want to be able to excel at relaxing our mind then we need to practice and continue to work at it. Anything I do in my life I always approach it like