"Know Thy Self" by Learning How to "Listen" to Your Self, Part II
This is part II of a four part blog. Please see my last blog entry on October 30 for part I.
There are seven kinds or aspects to "Listening:"
1) "Listening" to another."
2) "Listening" to nature.
3) "Listening" to Spirit.
4) "Listening" to your physical body.
5) "Listening" to that part of us called the little self or the ego? That part that we often do not want to own or acknowledge, that we often wish to disinherit, despite the fact that it is has some very valuable things to say to us.
6) "Listening" to our Higher Selves.
7) "Listening" to the God/Goddess within.
All these aspects of Listening require the same skill, namely learning how to be quiet. Listening actually is not a cognitive process, it is not something we do with our minds; but something we allow or open up to with our hearts.
Listening is a receptive, open, allowing, feminine state; it is not an assertive, active, masculine state. When the mind is quiet, the heart can be open; and then it can "hear;" and then, as well, it can lead the way. The mind is meant to be the servant of the heart. The heart is meant to lead.
Don't analyze anyone or anything. When you do, you are using your mind and creating separation by judging, analyzing and compartmentalizing. Instead feel first.
Don't listen to words, instead feel their energy.
Don't judge a person; get a "feel: for them first.
Don't measure anything; just "feel" its energy.
Use your heart first and then let the mind help you integrate what the heart has felt. Feel first, think last! Then you will "know."
Stop thinking and start feeling! Leave your mind behind and put your heart first!
No longer think your way through life; feel your way through life.
Listening is a communion--a joining or merging with. It is not analysis or judgment.
This is part II of a four part blog.