I silence my mind through deep meditation because I know a quiet mind works miracles for my health and wellness.

Notice what happens when a plane's engines cut after landing. A sound you had stopped hearing an hour ago disappears, and the quiet is startling out of all proportion to it.

Minds have a version of that hum, and it is not switched off so much as turned down. Nobody achieves total silence, and the people who have done this for decades will tell you so freely.

The gain isn't emptiness. It is the twenty minutes a day where the background drops enough that you can hear how tired you actually are, which is information you would not otherwise get.