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Category Archives: The Practice of Deep Listening
My Teacher Did What?!
One morning when I am about eight years old, Mom drops me off at elementary school especially early. In my third-grade classroom, there are only a few other students, along with our much-adored teacher Jane Hill. Miss Hill is at … Continue reading
Social-beat
We recently considered the practice of listening to our own heart-beat as a way of listening to personal wisdom. I think there is another kind of listening that we can open to. It’s not our heart-beat, but the social-beat, if … Continue reading
Ocean Song
Places sing calling songs. Just now, they might be missing their people. We might learn that by allowing ourselves to miss them… In our bone-deep missing, and in our willingness to remember ourselves as worthy of being missed, we could … Continue reading
Guidance
In these remaining days before our national election, there are so many voices and messages vying for our attention. If we want to be responsible participants in our democracy, most of us feel like we have an obligation to listen, … Continue reading
Breathing
Is meditation your friend? I know it should be my friend, but true confession: I am terrible at maintaining a relationship with meditation. I know this is to my detriment. I know all of the benefits of meditation, but I … Continue reading
Listening to Our Innermost Self
There is a room that is called the quietest room on earth in a laboratory in Minnesota. It is completely covered in the highest quality acoustic tiles and is a cube suspended inside another cube with springs that reduce outside … Continue reading