Practicing the Art of Listening
Set aside at least 10-15 minutes to explore the art of listening. Here's how:
-Sit comfortably with your eyes closed in or near a natural place like a garden or a stream. Make sure you won't be disturbed by voices, music, radios, or even TVs or phones.
Now open your awareness to the sounds around you. Don't focus on any particular sound or jump from sound to sound-just open your awareness like the lens of a camera and listen to the play of sound with your whole body, not just your ears.
Keep relaxing, letting go, and allowing listening to happen. If your awareness habitually focuses or jumps from sound to sound-just let it do what it does as you continue to relax in global awareness. You ay fins that you naturally notice other sensations as well; the contact of your body against the chair, the air against your skin. Just keep allowing the play of what is, without trying to pay attention in any way to it.
Eventually, the sense of separate experiencer may drop away, and only experiencing remains. In other words, no separating between subject and object-just this!
As you continue, you may discover that experiencing arises in a limitless stillness and silence that can't be experienced in another way. This is your very on Self, unconditional presence, consciousness without a second, the source of all experience. You can never knot it with the mind; you can only be it knowingly.
Allow everything to be as it is as you relax into the silent presence that your have always been
(Source: Some information pulled from Yoga Journal 2008)
-Sit comfortably with your eyes closed in or near a natural place like a garden or a stream. Make sure you won't be disturbed by voices, music, radios, or even TVs or phones.
Now open your awareness to the sounds around you. Don't focus on any particular sound or jump from sound to sound-just open your awareness like the lens of a camera and listen to the play of sound with your whole body, not just your ears.
Keep relaxing, letting go, and allowing listening to happen. If your awareness habitually focuses or jumps from sound to sound-just let it do what it does as you continue to relax in global awareness. You ay fins that you naturally notice other sensations as well; the contact of your body against the chair, the air against your skin. Just keep allowing the play of what is, without trying to pay attention in any way to it.
Eventually, the sense of separate experiencer may drop away, and only experiencing remains. In other words, no separating between subject and object-just this!
As you continue, you may discover that experiencing arises in a limitless stillness and silence that can't be experienced in another way. This is your very on Self, unconditional presence, consciousness without a second, the source of all experience. You can never knot it with the mind; you can only be it knowingly.
Allow everything to be as it is as you relax into the silent presence that your have always been
(Source: Some information pulled from Yoga Journal 2008)
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