If you read last Friday’s Exhale, some of the following reflection will sound familiar. The quotation about quiet and hearing more struck a chord with me. Too many of us, including me, spend too much time with our phones or TV. As I remind my mother, there are definitely positives to modern technology, such as being able to communicate with distant loved ones or watching programmes that truly inform and uplift us. However, so much of it is mental clutter, unnecessary and detrimental to our wellbeing. We are surrounded by external noise, which worsens our internal noise, leading to stress, anxiety and our increasing inability to truly hear ourselves and those around us.