On the second day of the darkroom, something shifted... On the second day in the darkroom, something changed. The noise settled. And I noticed I could do something I'm not sure I had ever done before. I could take a single thought. Like lifting a box down from a shelf. Open it up. Think the thought all the way through to the end. Close it. Put it back. And then sit there in the quiet for a moment. And then decide what I wanted to think about next. It sounds simple. But it was one of the most...

And what I learned really surprised me... I've had some interesting responses since I told you about my darkroom experience. Some people said: "That sounds terrifying. I could never do that." Others said: "I actually think I need something like that." Both reactions tell me something. Because what people are really responding to isn't the darkness. It's the idea of stopping. Fully stopping. No input. No agenda. No performance. Just... presence. And most of us haven't done that in a very long...

That's what a friend said to me before I went in... “You’re going to lose your mind” That’s what he said to me before I did it. 4 nights. 3 days. 88 hours. Total darkness. Total Silence. No phone. No lights. No sounds. No distractions. I thought it would be peaceful. But it wasn’t. At first… nothing. Then slowly… My mind got louder. Not quieter. Memories started surfacing. Random thoughts. Images and memories. And at one point I realized: I wasn’t distracted by the outside world anymore…...