When is your mind its quietest?

Question

When you've stopped asking questions, when you've stopped formulating answers, when you've stopped hypothesizing -- when is your mind at its quietest?

Answer 1

When I'm under an anesthetic, I guess. When I dream, my dreams seem very real, and I'm always searching for my family. Even in dreams, I'm on a quest.

Answer 2

First a question, then the answer.
Q- Are u always asking so many questions? Is ur mind never quiet?
Ans to your question- My mind is more active when I meditate, surprisingly! And it is the quietest when I am watching a beautiful dance presentation or dancing to beautiful music and am lost in its beautiful depths or when I am flying over quiet snow-capped mountains and everything including the plane appears to be still and everything is peaceful and beautiful.

Answer 3

I have to actually be doing something "mindless" for my mind to be quiet---walking, playing piano, gardening, painting or doing some type of repetitve work like needlepoint, etc. That is the only time I notice my mind being still.
I have a very hard time physically being still. I would love to be able to meditate, for example,but I don't seem to be made that way. Even when I pray, I am usually doing something else at the same time---driving, cooking, etc.

Answer 4

When I meditate, as that is part of the goal of meditation; stillness. The first stage is cutting off thoughts of the past and future, only observing the present moment. The 2nd stage is when you quiet your internal monologue, and silently observe each moment as it occurs. And then things get interesting...
^_^ It's worth while too, as it builds glial cells in the brain (specifically "insight" meditation, or breath meditation), a parallel chemically computational network, and the type of cell that Einstein had an abnormally high count of, so it can't be a waste of time.

Answer 5

The mind is never quiet as long as you are thinking. I suppose it becomes quiet when you're unconscious but some psychologists such as Freud would argue the unconscious mind is always loud and doing it's best to let information in it escape. We are always in a conflict and our mind is never at rest. It is immaterial and so it doesn't need to rest or be quiet. It can go on and on unlike the physical body.

Answer 6

I guess my mind is the quietest when i'm beginning to enlighten myself after a storm. When i think back of what i coudve done and will do to make life a little easier.

Answer 7

When I do what you just describe, you just stop the turmoil in your brain.
Sometimes it comes naturally, sometimes I do it by focusing on
something simple, like trying to feel your actual pulse in your
fingertips and feel the blood moving.
You get to that point, there's only that one sensation and after
that there's absolute quietness.
Today fishing on my boat it happened just by watching a few
raindrops hitting the still water, I just watched the circles expanding, and also ended up there spontaneously.

Answer 8

the times i feel most able to relax my mind and truly reflect is when i am either sitting and staring out at the ocean or sitting in a window seat of an airplane flying high above the clouds. these environments have proven to be the most productive times in my mind. :)

Answer 9

Only when I'm unconscious or sliding into it. My brain works on jet fuel, it runs hot during operation and doesn't cool down till you shut the engine off.

Answer 10

Whenever I've meditated (or at least tried to meditate) -- this is probably the only time and/or way for me to make my mind quiet!