At 40, my hearing is regarded as perfect. But have I spent my life really listening?
I have realised that I spent most of my life hearing only what I chose to hear – an impediment that arose out of my choices, those same choices that also, as it happens, affected my eyes when I chose to ‘see’ only that which I wanted to ‘see’.
The relationship between the two senses was not always apparent. The sympathetic and correlating self-imposed limitation of the two senses was in fact the consequent result of another impediment; the avoidance of allowing myself to feel what I was already, at a deeper level, naturally feeling.
It was only through developing a willingness to allow myself to feel, that came with that a deeper understanding, that in turn reveals what is there to really hear. When my hearing is not filtered by habitual reactions I am able to listen and understand what there is to feel – and thereby cease to substitute that fear of feeling with noise of distracting activity.
By this choice to open up and allow this level of realisation, I was offered by that willingness to being open, the opportunity to really ‘hear’… that is, to hear by feeling with my natural expression without fastening onto the altered residual echo of the distorted reception of the distracting activity.
Feeling and hearing are not always readily associated senses, at least not in the strictest sense of the word. Vibrations are of course a feature of sound and can be felt. When I allow myself to feel and hear, it simply opens up a truth – a truth I have at times practiced hard to avoid. For me, there is an immense sense of loss in knowing that I have not connected to or met others in my true expression. Instead I sought to communicate out of and through my habits, beliefs and fears – and not out of what my body and senses were revealing to me.
In this regard and by that measure, most of us are afflicted with the inability to really feel and therefore communicate. It was therefore a big shock to realise that I was only using my senses to react to my environment and that my communication was merely used as a method of ensuring that I remained shrouded in that generally accepted feedback loop otherwise known as ‘socialising’: that group creation and often false space which feels comfortable simply because others are also there providing that recognition, comfort, acceptance and the apparent security found amongst the company of others… the collective and erroneous belief that the capture group is the ‘best’ or ‘right’ group.
… Until this illusion was shattered for me! Undone without any great difficulty. And all it took was a level of trusting that connection with myself. It was with Universal Medicine that I was reintroduced to the connection that I have always known. That is, I already knew and had always known what it is to feel and understand and really listen…
Up until this time I had chosen to trust the outer influence over that Inner Knowing – I allowed a division of the self by separating the feeling from the listening and so avoided truly hearing, and this can never stand because that division requires outer reinforcing by way of identifying with the distracting activities. For me, losing trust in feeling the self is the same as abandoning the self – it cannot be reconciled – it must be reclaimed.
Those times of anxiety that I had felt in social interactions that I had railed against were in fact the very things that were prompting me to feel. The anxiety was a tension, alerting me to the fact that I had separated from living my essence of who I am. For me to be really listening with that aware, attentive, receptive communication merely required stillness of presence. And Presence means exactly that – being present in and with my body – and never shrinking from that awareness. In this way I have then been challenged to honestly look at the heavily invested beliefs and ideal constructs that form my perceptions.
It is only through feeling that I can paint an honest self-portrait – warts and all! For me the process has merely been a stepping out from the shadows and leaving behind what is not truly part of me. I know that I am infinitely more than a mere reflection of my environment; I can now see that I’m not the adopted emotions and behaviours that I have been living with. I can reclaim that space I abandoned when I withdrew from my real expression.
I have started to really listen and truly hear without the anxiety that I once had of being lesser, or that arrogance of being greater, because that space, time and energy given over to the need for recognition or comparison has been reclaimed – or rather, it is no longer required. I need only feel to know a truth because by first understanding through listening reveals truth – much faster than seeking understanding through the slow process of acquired and therefore dated knowledge.
Instead of communicating from a choice to express, I observe that many of us have become puppets to a mass market; communicated to collectively, through a media that advertises instructions on how one should feel, what one should believe in and on what is normal (for the fashionable now). For example, our news seeks more to stir up reactions than it does to inform on actual events or encourage open discourse, and the young are fed instruction on style and behaviours that promote and benefit the consumer markets.
There is a discovery to be made; without choosing to first feel, there is only the appearance of choice. Situations where individual feelings are left to a collective and fashionable emotional response, where those responses are made without feelings, are merely derivatives.
It is in this way that the cause and effect are reversed, because when we feed from this global menu of stimulation, with its predictable reactions and encouraged addictions, habits and belief constructs, our interactions then amount to nothing more than an attempt at avoiding what it is to feel. And that is not living, it is cutting off at the source our individual gift of expressing uniquely.
We are now, most of us sadly not expressing in any unique way; many of us have instead become clichés – predictable, manageable, exploitable and ordinary. We have, for the most part, chosen to uphold collective false ideals that serve and seek to benefit none but those who profit from those beliefs: we have allowed ourselves – our essence – to be driven by external needs and to be valued only by our external deeds.
We may be hearing – but are we really listening?
By E. Walsh, Australia
Related Reading:
‘Seeing is Believing’ and ‘Believing is Seeing’
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
This is such a meaty blog as there is so much to explore. Lets start with
‘I have realised that I spent most of my life hearing only what I chose to hear – an impediment that arose out of my choices, those same choices that also, as it happens, affected my eyes when I chose to ‘see’ only that which I wanted to ‘see’.’
I feel we have been completely blindsided when it comes to our senses we have learnt from an early age to project what we want to see and hear which isn’t the same as seeing and hearing everything regardless of what is occurring. Everything is a vibration we are made up of molecules; the space around us are molecules we could say we live in a soup like consistency that we call space and this ‘soup’ vibrates, but do we vibrate within a harmonious tone which resonates with the rest of the Universe or do we vibrate in disharmony, which disrupts the flow of harmony? I would say for most of us we live in a disharmonious way and it is this that lead to illness and disease that is so prevalent in our society today.
This is a biggie for me, as my hearing has been affected from a young age and has continued to follow me as I’ve grown and needed the support of a specialist to this very day.
Just as you mentioned our senses are for more than their physicality, so the ears aren’t always hearing they are feeling too. Something I’m learning more and more about but also accepting that we more than our senses.
Our bodies are sensitive to everything around them, and are we truly using our senses for their purpose or for something else?
As I begin to get more familiar with living from my innermost heart, from my essence of stillness, what I sense is received very differently with much more information than when I am just relying on the five physical senses.
I agree Melinda, our inner heart is not the physical heart either. It is the centre, the pacemaker of our being, whilst the physical heart is the human part. When we drop to the inner self, then we are being of service from a different place. Then could we ask the question, would our bodies become exhausted from being of service?
“And all it took was a level of trusting that connection with myself.” The eyes and ears of the inner-heart know the truth.
Thank you E, for us to be open to true listening, as you have shared is to open our whole body to a different level of stillness so as another speaks we are not imposing our thought or a running a commentary over the top of what someone else is sharing.
I really get this – how I disconnect myself in reaction to what I am seeing or hearing, and I agree with you, it is me abandoning myself, my essence. This can be very subtle or not so subtle. Either way, this is a really weird mechanism in that if I really did not like what I am seeing or hearing that much, why would I let go of the dearest, most precious thing that I have got for something I so despise? This makes no sense.
Fumiyo I saw an interesting short video about the lies and corruption around the milk industry, that didn’t surprise me at all as we are peddled so many lies. What I reacted to was the way men where roughly handling new born calves probably males by throwing them onto a truck. How far removed from ourselves have we become when we can treat another in such an uncaring abusive way. how is it possible that the man throwing the calf into the truck has become so uncaring, when he himself at one time was a tender young child. Imagine the stress on the calf and the mother to be separated in such a way. How uncaring are we as human-beings that we do not care that the only way for a cow to produce milk is if she has just had a calf which is taken away from her, imagine the stress we put these animals through just so that we can drink the milk that she produces, because we have fallen for the lie that milk is good for us. How far have we fallen for the lies that has produced a society that is quite frankly so uncaring.
We are so much controlled by our reactions on our senses instead of feeling what truly is expressed by what people say, what the media present to us and the movements that are behind these expressions.
I feel at last Nico that humanity is waking up to the fact that the media is corrupt and sells lies, I speak to many people around the world and with what is happening in the world currently it is showing everyone just how corrupt the media is and that they cannot be trusted as the medium is being used to crush and then control humanity. More and more people are waking up to the fact that we live in a very corrupt society which we have ourselves made by dulling our senses to what is really going on and projecting what we want to see and hear instead.
We cannot close our hearing like we can close our eyes so through our hearing we are in constant connection with everything around us and therefore when unaware very easy to influence by the unseen.
Connection with our body is key to truly listening to what another has said, or we become very selective in our hearing and are in our heads working out what we want to say.
The physical body separates clearly the senses. You smell through the nose, you listen though the ears etc. Yet, when you are able to connect deeply to your true essence and allow feel to lead the way, you realize that it is your whole body that does the seeing, the listening, etc. And what comes to you, does not come through the usual ways.
Choosing to feel and hear what is actually being communicated to us, is a liberating act that requires us to be a true observer.
Yes, the observer of the truth of life and not the receiver of the lies that are being expressed.
So true – what we like to avoid feeling is often the very thing we really should pay attention to.
‘We may be hearing – but are we really listening?’ So true, we often only hear what we want to hear at times, listening with our whole body we can remain still and feel and hear what is being expressed without the self getting in the way.
Anna I have noticed that I only hear what I want to hear, this is very apparent when I re listen to say an audio of Universal Medicine, it may have been recorded some years back and when I re listen to the words there is so much more I can hear, I keep saying to myself I don’t remember hearing that. As you say when we get ourselves out of the way it opens up the flood gates to feel and sense everything.
What we do not choose to hear or see will sooner or later become unavoidable so why delay let’s open our eyes and ears today – who knows what we have been avoiding might just be the very thing we have always been looking for!!!
Our interfering mind tries to control our communication in such a way that the truth about our existence is not exposed and that we can continue to live our wayward behaviour.
It feels like every cell of our being ‘has ears’ too. It is funny to consider maybe, but maybe each and every cell mirrors all the functions of our whole body – so they ‘hear’, ‘see’ ‘smell’ too. There is no doubt that sound can be felt and sensed. It is a vibration after all.
This blog makes a great point, being able to hear does not always ensure we are actually listening and understanding what is being presented to us – and this makes me wonder how much of the potential of life are we missing out on.
The only way to truly feel something is to listen and when we listen to what we are feeling from our bodies we are given the wisdom and understanding of what the truth actually is.
Lovely blog, thank you E. Walsh. I am reminded of a singing workshop I attended where the facilitator encouraged the participants to ‘listen with the ears of the heart’. What is shared here is what he meant by those words. And with that, I started to learn about a wonderful new realm of self-expression.
May I suggest that our essence cannot be touched but that it is the outer persona, the one we display to the world and posture and position ourselves with, that has become the puppet of whatever forces we allow to work through us.
We tend to think that our senses work on automatic pilot. Yet, the truth is that there is an element of choice behind every decision regarding them. What we allow in and what we dismiss ipso facto is up to us. By doing so, we construct our own reality, grand or miserable.
Could it also be possible that we listen with our whole bodies and not just our ears? I know from experience my whole body is a barometer for truth.
I wonder if it could be said that there are several levels to our hearing – so there’s what is actually said, then the intention or energy behind what was said and then on top of these we then have our own filters – such as what we want to hear, and how we’re feeling at the time (small, arrogant, frustrated, happy, sad, amazing) which I’m sure influences what we hear. There’s much more to it than we first realise.
There are many levels to hearing as there are many levels and filters to seeing. We are basically after confirmation of what we think it should be, of how it fits into our world.
Our body is constantly communicating but are we listening?
We see what we want and need to see (confirmation bias) as much as we hear what we think we need to hear – and that does turn us into functional and predictable units of an ideology, a religion, a sporting club, a culture, etc. In fact, we become its puppets as everything that does not fit, does not suit or contradicts the belief, dogma or ideal held is filtered out.
This is a great reminder to receive on January 1st but then again it is a great reminder to receive any day as each moment is a fresh opportunity to receive without any pictures or sounds from the past!
It is quite something when we open our eyes to just how much we choose not to see and our ears to what we are not hearing – thank you for the reminder to bring further awareness and presence to what I am seeing and hearing.
True indeed; our filters are there quicker than we think possible, they are our second skin, our protection and stalwart. Anything that doesn’t suit, doesn’t fit the preconceived image and upheld belief seemingly disappear before it even appeared – but we have indeed felt it, seen it, heard it an it doesn’t go away.
That is so very, very true it just gets buried. The only way to truly protect ourselves is to choose to see and hear things as they truly are – see how the word truth keeps coming in – it is all about truth.
Thank you E. Walsh, I appreciated the link you made between feeling and listening, and how vital it is that we feel what we hear.
Presence is essential if we choose to truly listen, great question to ponder on, ‘We may be hearing – but are we really listening?’
‘Feeling is Really Listening’ – So true E.Walsh, as we deepen our feeling senses we are listening to to wisdom our body holds.
Fabulous E.Walsh. You present how big everything is. Everything is not made up of just what it is we see – a ‘rushed reality’ to cover up the truth – hearing what is wanted to be seen – an already pre-prescribed picture giving to us what we signed for. Until we truly listen will we truly see.
To express uniquely, from the love in our hearts is not the normal way of living. Even though each of us know, that in truth, it is the only way to live.
Am I really listening, is a great question to ponder on, and I agree,’For me to be really listening with that aware, attentive, receptive communication merely required stillness of presence. And Presence means exactly that – being present in and with my body – and never shrinking from that awareness.’
One thing I have become adept at over the years is very quickly ignoring anything said that makes me feel uncomfortable. Its a lightening response but I am catching myself more often these days and then giving myself a moment to feel if a response is needed. It is sometimes a tad delayed but the more present I am with my body, the less delay there is.
It’s interesting that when you scratch the surface and start to observe your own behaviour, how much is revealed. I have up until recently been a very literal listener. I would only pay attention to the words, but since allowing myself to feel more, there is so much more going on than the words, and often they don’t match with what the person is saying. Saying what I feel is relatively new but I’m getting better at it as I practice.
After a week of having a blocked ear after reading this I feel there is so much more I could be hearing by connecting more to my feelings. I have for a long time and still do these days have an internal radio playing and this perception that I can’t handle my feelings. But in reading “I can reclaim that space I abandoned when I withdrew from my real expression.” I am starting to understand that this playing small and fearful is not needed. This will take time to practice but thank you for the inspiration.
Listening fully takes a commitment to detachment, to not being engaged from a sense of making it all about you, really listening takes understanding and a choice to see the bigger picture and the picture behind the picture.
It is interesting how adept we can become at only hearing what we want to hear, and being able to not listen to everything that is being said, we choose to either check out at those moments or just turn a deaf ear. I have now begun to understand the importance of listening to another and particularly the tone in which it is delivered.
Such a powerful blog E. Walsh, you expose beautifully how we don’t truly listen and we cloud what we hear with our own stuff. Learning to listen with the whole body is a game changer and allows us to observe another speaking without our own mind chatter getting in the way and this allows for a deeper connection where we can simply feel the truth and express this more openly.
Perception is perhaps the greatest obstacle preventing us from knowing the truth of all things.
What a powerful blog. We cannot truly hear if we have not claimed back all that we are. Part of hearing is our clairsentience, if this part has no authority in our body and has been pushed to the side, how are we use our bodies true intelligence to receive the truth of what is before us.
For sure E. Walsh, when we do not listen with our inner heart, we are at the mercy of the interpreting mind that allows us to hear only part of the truth and with that is masking its irresponsible way of living.
What a great expression ‘ Feeling is really listening.’ In other words we listen with our whole body not just our ears or mind. When we use our mind to filter what we hear we become mind listeners: the worst kind and means we’ve dis-connected (switched off) from ourselves and another person. I’m learning to discern between ‘ feeling what I know is true’ and ‘thinking I know all there is to know’
It’s far easier to think that life just happens to us, rather than take responsibility for the choices we make that affect our lives – yet there’s always a choice to open up, to hear and see more of what’s going on around us. Doing so means that we need to drop our guard and let people in – and let go of the hurts that might be standing in the way of this – but is so worth it, as life becomes far richer and more beautiful.
We only get out what we put in is loosely a term I have heard over the years that I never really related to life and yet here it is. As the article is saying, “We may be hearing – but are we really listening?” or what part are we listening too? There is so much sound around us, some not audible in the usual way as everything makes a sound even complete silence still has a sound, listen next time you have it. For me this proves that energy has a sound, a very defiant sound and yet we settle to hear only part of what is there. Once we choose that part then this controls our lives, our choices and our listening quality. We would like to blame all manner of things for how life is and yet here we have our choices controlling how life is. We are in this more then we care to remember and be aware of, nothing gets past us, we see, hear and feel everything it’s just how much we listen that controls the next part.
Recently I was at an Esoteric Yoga session and noticed how my hearing would blank out momentarily even though I was right there wide awake and I was wondering why this was happening – especially Esoteric Yoga primarily being about connecting and listening to one’s body. Your observation and sharing here feels very apt for me right now. So the question for me is – what am I avoiding feeling?
You have brilliantly exposed that trap we have so often fallen for – our quest for individuality which actually leads us to draw from a pool of predetermined and controlled consciousness, so we end up existing in a way that is not individual at all. From here what we see and hear is processed through our disconnected minds serving only to continue and satisfy our quest for individuality. Through our choice to not feel, to not be in connection with our stillness, our essence, our bodies we disconnect from that which allows us to know the truth. For it is through our connection to our inner-hearts we can sense the truth of any situation and know that this truth is in fact universal. As from here we then see, listen and respond through our bodies with unique yet universal quality that represents the truth of who we all are in essence.
When we have any identification, hurts, reactions, ideals, beliefs, survival needs or attachment to outcome in a situation we cannot see, hear, smell or taste what is truly before us. Letting go of and healing our issues and being there for all equally are key steps in regaining our true hearing and vision.
I agree Nicola, these are all the filters through which we experience the world and get in the way of us truly feeling what is in front of us. The image I have is of two ponds, one muddy, the other clear. Truly healing and releasing past hurt is the only way to transform the first into the second.
It is a great freedom to hear and see what is truly going on. It is also very healing for the other person to be truly met, seen and heard as it is something we rarely do with ourselves or each others.
It is quite a shock at first to become aware of just how much all of us are puppets and not truly seeing or hearing what is before us. When we start to open our ears and eyes there is in fact a whole other dimension and world of understanding available.
The process you have embarked on of stepping out of the shadows to leave behind what is not truly you and reclaim the space you abandoned when you withdrew from your real expression is deeply inspiring and a development we all need to embrace… for the latter only leaves us a puppet of our environment and in denial of our true potential.
This is absolutely brilliant EW and something I have been long working on. Thank you for the reminder. It is interesting because the more aware I become the more aware of how unaware I am or have been. Equally, the more I listen and see the more I hear and see and that exposes to me just how much I have not been hearing and seeing and how I am still only choosing to see and hear the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is truly there and available.
This is such a wake up call if we choose not to feel then of course we’ve already fashioned our senses to hear and see what we want or to fit into an image or ideal that we’ve bought into. We cannot truly see or hear if we do not fully feel, and to feel is to allow ourselves to embrace the awareness we have and to live and to live in a way that ensures we actually honour it. Otherwise we’re indeed at the mercy of what we are told, and this is not true choice; in fact the truth is if we choose not to feel we are choosing to be led, we are choosing to be irresponsible, and to be directed by the ‘choices’ we are given.
Yes. We can all feel life, it just depends if we’re willing to listen to what’s going on. And from my experience that means trusting what I’m feeling and not overriding it with thoughts. I like what you say about stillness, so true. In that stillness we can really open ourselves to feel.
From early age, we learn to use our body (and senses) to let in the portion that suits us and to protect and numb ourselves against those that do not suit the picture. Of course, the accepted portion is then labeled ‘reality’. It is this selected picture that then governs our understanding and actions. All come to us. The all come to us all the time. We choose to reduce it to what we are comfortable to call the all; our own version of it.
“We are now, most of us sadly not expressing in any unique way; many of us have instead become clichés – predictable, manageable, exploitable and ordinary. We have, for the most part, chosen to uphold collective false ideals that serve and seek to benefit none but those who profit from those beliefs: we have allowed ourselves – our essence – to be driven by external needs and to be valued only by our external deeds.”
How so very true and exposing of just how responsible we all at for the state we find our world in. To speak against the tide is not easy, but it is super necessary if we want to see changes in our world.
Hearing what we want to hear – and I would add – seeing only what we want to see. Thanks for this post EW. It is common knowledge that ask two or three witnesses to a ‘crime’ and they all report a different description and version. We may believe we are being honest, but are we truthful?
This is such a great question- are we hearing or really listening as the difference is immense. We have become so adept at multi tasking that many of us listen to another while actually doing something else -I find myself doing this but will be so much more aware now. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Thank you E. Walsh – this is gold.
When I hold back in expressing myself in reaction to the other person not wanting to hear or be swayed to shut up from the reflections of being shut out, I am first and foremost disrespecting myself, therefore all behaviors that happen from this choice would be dishonoring to others too.
We have all been there, not connecting to others in the truth of our expression, but this realization is gold. Which just means we can start right now and re-correct our momentum to be different. Expression is the best way to learn non-investment, as its true purpose is simply to express in truth and love without expectation.
When we tune in to the ears of the heart we discover what we have always been feeling but choosing not to be aware of.
‘most of us are afflicted with the inability to really feel and therefore communicate.’ I wouldn’t say we are afflicted with the inability to not feel, this is not true, we can all feel – we have simply chosen a lack of responsibility not to.
‘But have I spent my life really listening?’ We could take this much deeper and ask the same question ‘Have I spent my life really listening to my body?
There is so much of heaven to be heard when we stop and truly listen. Have you ever had a conversation with someone and certain parts really stand out, it may be a few words, but it is very clearly a message from heaven sharing something for you to look at in your life / life.
Wow. E. Walsh. This is very much a stop moment as I come to the end of your blog.
A stop to consider and evaluate the many changes I have made in my life when it comes to truly listening. But most af all a moment to stop and feel the potential of true listening that I am capable of. That which I have a sense of, a stop moment to fully accept that to have had the sense of potential is in fact a moment to truly discern why I have not choosen this to be my normal, and the gift of knowing exactly what is needed to make this sense the foundation of how I live.
When we come from our emotions, habits and beliefs we get caught up in the falsity of these emotions, when we stay present with and feel the bodies truth it is presented in its purity without identification or investment.
It all comes back to the energy we are choosing and aligning too: spirit or Soul that will influence what we see and hear. Each produce 2 very, very different views, thoughts, feelings, and movements….
‘ I need only feel to know a truth because by first understanding through listening reveals truth’. We are feeling and reading all of the time, but not totally aware of this fact because it automatically happens. What I am learning to do is to express what I am feeling/reading, then I have more clarity of what I have felt or read.
“Those times of anxiety that I had felt in social interactions that I had railed against were in fact the very things that were prompting me to feel. The anxiety was a tension, alerting me to the fact that I had separated from living my essence of who I am.” and that there is more there to be explored should we stop and allow that. I have had that anxious feeling many times in situations with others and it has always been because what I am feeling may be different to what I am seeing/hearing (eg, someone being nice when you can feel they are angry therefore not genuine) and instead of expressing what I am feeling I have abandoned myself through not trusting what I have felt and what my body is telling me.
It’s like we get a set of comfortable beliefs and a way of being that doesn’t rock any boats and we then only hear what supports that narrow view. I remember when I was young, being angry and dissatisfied with the way I saw people were living in the world and I feel that this was why. Then I seemed to join them. There is so much more to being in this world and so much more to our expression. The key is to listen and be open to what it is possible to hear and see.
We often hear only what we want to. It is hard not to get caught up in sensation and taken off on a tangent that takes us away from the truth of who we are and why we are here.
“Without choosing to first feel, there is only the appearance of choice” – this is such a great reminder. So true – how we deceive ourselves with the appearance of choice, and that is all because we are limiting ourselves from the infinite that is actually available to us, and I can feel how we equate the known as the comfort, and become hesitant to surrender to the unknown.
With the plethora of bombardments we are exposed to every day – from media sources, music, visual imagery and so much more – it actually blows me away that we are yet capable, if we choose to reconnect to the stillness and depth of presence that is ever there awaiting within us, of expressing in truth. And a truth that is universal.
The keys to being truly present with oneself and embracing a foundational relationship with one’s own essence, as shared by Serge Benhayon of Universal Medicine, have been invaluable in this regard – they have changed and re-opened my perceptions in life, and continue to this day and will do far beyond…
It is our birthright to be so open and aware. Our commitment to expressing what is of our own true natures, and thereby in harmony with all, is what our world desperately needs for us to rise out of the lost morass of empty expression that populates our airwaves, our media, and our ‘everyday’ and bring the richness, joy and truth we are actually all capable of.
“For me to be really listening with that aware, attentive, receptive communication merely required stillness of presence. And Presence means exactly that – being present in and with my body – and never shrinking from that awareness.”
Thank-you for your words here E. Walsh. You expose how greatly we’ve dulled and shirked away from the awareness we naturally have – choosing instead a lesser way of expressing ourselves and ‘taking in’ all that we perceive around us. And to what avail?
We are so much more… and your call to truly listen and embrace all the awareness available to us is one that is deeply needed.
Hearing and seeing from the heart has the steadiness and consistency that is not part of simply hearing and seeing via that one sense alone. By including the heart in my perception of life I know I can allow myself full information rather than only what has been filtered through either the ears or the eyes.
Thank you for a thought provoking blog E. Walsh. I particularly agree with the News stirring up our emotions and not really informing us or inspiring action.
It is truly important to understand that when we do not express from our inner most, we actually react to what is brought to us in a way we have learned how to give the expected and desirable response.
Hearing with our bodies is so much more inclusive and comprehensive. It is not just what was said but how was it said. Words need the body to confirm and connect. Words alone is just noise.
“And that is not living, it is cutting off at the source our individual gift of expressing uniquely.”
By striving for sameness in the outer we have lost our connection to the inner which, the inner, confirms in us the equalness that we are, uniquely expressing as a part of the whole.
Thank you E.Walsh for the clear testimonial why feeling is a most important aspect in our lives.
Thank you E.Walsh for sharing, this really is what life is all about “For me to be really listening with that aware, attentive, receptive communication merely required stillness of presence. And Presence means exactly that – being present in and with my body – and never shrinking from that awareness. “
“I was only using my senses to react to my environment and that my communication was merely used as a method of ensuring that I remained shrouded in that generally accepted feedback loop otherwise known as ‘socialising’” – this is so brilliantly put, and I so agree with you. There is this silent agreement where we hold each other down not to awaken from the reprieve of comfort.