Not to anyone else… not to society… not to your colleagues and peers… not to your parents… not to all the advertising and social media you’re bombarded with! Not even to the chatter in your head! Are you listening deeply?
Beyond the noise.
Deeply to your body and what it’s telling you.
Deeply to the background emotions present in your life.
To how your relationships function, and the depth of connections you make around you.
Deeply to the feeling on the way to work on a Monday morning!
Deeply to the environments in which you find yourself and whether they really satisfy you.
Perhaps you’re wondering how you ended up where you are, it wasn’t really what you intended when you set off.
Maybe you’re paying attention to what others say. Seeking out their opinions, but not really stopping to listen to what You have to say on the matter. Or is it that you’re just scared of trusting yourself, especially when it goes against the grain of the voices around you! Perhaps, it’s time you started paying attention to your own tune, and going one step further and even trusting yourself!
How to start
Perhaps you can take some steps, even baby steps, to begin to pay attention?
Slow down.
Say no to things.
Spend time doing what you love.
Spending time in nature and silence.
Connect to your body.
Perhaps the circumstances of your life are trying to tell you something… maybe they are saying, not this way, but this →
Perhaps there is another way. Listen more deeply, to the urgings of that voice quiet inside and flow more easily with the life you’re supposed to be living.
A listening like composing music, not with the intellect but a sensing of the tune and of the note that wants to be played next!
