Are you listening?

I’ve been thinking how LISTENING

(as an ALL sensory listening, encompassing physically feeling, seeing, smelling, internally observing, overlaps like felt flavours, sensed smells, and also extrasensory perceptions)

- overlapping semantically with PRESENCE leading to AWARENESS

is the key to most things that I do (well).

To act and make decisions aligned with truth, I must listen.

To learn from life’s unfolding around me, I must listen.

To touch another’s body in a profound way, I must listen.

To mentor and guide another through their own process, I must listen.

To hear messages and stories from sentient beings (animals, plants, body parts, ‘inanimate’ objects), I must listen.

To feel into the deep harmony with my environment, I must listen.

To create and make art and express, from places deep inside me, I must listen.

If you aren’t present, you may hear, but you can’t really listen.

To truly listen, you must be present.

To listen on all levels, to me, is deep awareness.

Observing the thoughts inside your head, noticing the patterns of things happening around you, giving yourself the space, to hear, to feel, to sense, giving others the greatest gift you can,

and what I believe most of us are so deeply yearning for,

is presence. To be seen without analysis, to be heard without apology, to be touched with no agenda.

I myself have been clogging my senses recently, like someone playing loud music at the beach when you just wanna listen to the waves,

this is a reminder to myself, the more we listen, the better we create. Like a seamless flow of water through silk,

life force flowing in around and out of us

A felt symbiosis

with the ever changing present moment.