Listen
Hawaiian Monk Seal comes forward today to remind us to listen. These seals have a simple opening for ears that symbolizes the balance between inner awareness/knowingness and what we hear in our environments.
These beautiful creatures are also very curious and encourage us to use curiosity to spark our inspiration and create new flow in our lives.
This flow comes from listening to our intuition and allowing it to guide us.
Every time you ask a question, you receive an answer. Are you listening? We often miss the response to our queries because we are distracted by too many things, the answer comes from a source that we do not expect and therefore discount it, or the answer is not the one we wish to hear.
When we quiet the noise and static in our environments, including that created from being focused on doing tasks to just get through the day, we begin to become aware of more information around us. Too many humans careen from crisis to crisis because we have been taught to live life in this way and have become addicted to it thus now creating it for ourselves. Indeed, for many it is a coping mechanism and keeps life from getting too “close” or intimate.
Stepping out of this and other limiting patterns, allows us to see and hear more - it allows us greater access to our intuition and information all around us. It allows us to breathe and to observe our situation and ourselves from different perspectives.
It also allows us to come into communication with our bodies. In contrast to our minds, the body will not lie. The body is not influenced by the ego. We are encouraged to use our internal barometer to assess how we really feel about a situation, event, or person. This is a new way of listening and takes a bit of practice, for we are accustomed to overriding what our bodies are telling us. Your body is your partner and ally, helping you to get in touch with the real you.
Allowing our inner voice to speak, also allows us to hear and receive a multitude of messages we would otherwise miss or override in our environments. Remember Spirit is always communicating with you and will use any means available to do do. Our intuition is one of the most significant tools we have to navigate this human experience and by learning to listen we will have greater clarity and an entirely new experience of the world around us.
Create some space in your day today to focus on listening. This could be through any form of meditation. Or, simply take the time to breathe and quiet the mind. Pay greater attention to everything you hear and see today.
What is revealed to you?
Are you willing to listen?
Can you feel resistsnce to listening?
If so, what does that resistance reveal to you?
