What would happen if you surrendered your computer, phone, tablet, journal, books, and pens and went silent–no contact with anyone–for 10 full days? I wanted to find out the answer to this question for myself.

I spend a lot of time at a keyboard in front of a screen, so I live in my head. It’s comfortable there. I rely on facts and logic to form my understanding of the world. My body doesn’t get involved, at least consciously. And that served me just fine–until it didn’t.