7 Week Deep Listening Guided Meditation Series Sent To Your Email

Week 1:  Deep listening and meditation are cousins. While meditation brings us peace, deep listening brings meaning and direction. When we’re challenged by life, deep listening helps us respond. When we are in confusion or doubt, it answers our questions or helps us ask healthier ones. 

What are your priorities in life? Without knowing what we care about most, we’re apt to live a life pursuing what we’ve been told to care about by parents, friends, society and advertising. Without knowing ourselves, we may spend years going in one direction or another, never finding true fulfillment. Knowing oneself goes beyond the opinions of others and beneath the noise of our own intellect. It begins by listening within.

We typically use concentrated intellectual effort to figure things out, solve problems, and find meaning in life. But thinking is a very limited way of knowing, and it’s often when we relax our mind that we finally do get our answers.

The question “Who am I,” is one that often begins in the intellect, but quickly transports us toward our higher consciousness. Connecting there can be deeply satisfying, and possibly the closest we’ll ever come to an answer. As you work with the question, “Who am I,” let go of the need to know, become as present as possible, and perhaps allow the answer to find you.

The question, “What am I here for,” or “What is my life purpose,” is one that can be answered on many levels. And the answers certainly can change over the course of a lifetime. As you listen more and more deeply, you may find the answers you receive change from being about what you do in the world, to who you are, and the way you move through life.

The wisdom and “higher information” we tap into in deep listening doesn’t necessarily come in the form we’re used to. Where out intellect is eager to communicate with us in complete sentences, the language of the soul is often more subtle. You may experience it in the form of single words, short phrases, seeds or kernels of ideas, symbolic images, lofty feelings, or simply a sense of peace and tranquility. Taking time to write immediately after your time inward can be especially helpful, allowing you to “unpack” the more condensed input you may have received.

This meditation is an opportunity to receive input from your own higher consciousness. Consider asking something about yourself, about your connection to life, or about your path in life. You can also use this as an opportunity to receive insight into the nature of life itself. Let your intuition guide you in choosing a question that will stimulate a response. You can also use this process to ask no question at all, and simply receive the peace and sense of connection that may be waiting for you within. Through deep listening, you may experience an answer to something beyond any question you might have imagined.