Listening
From early on we are taught to listen.
I can recall when I was younger and I was starting to come into the teenager, hormonal years (I'm sorry parents) and I loved to speak my mind. When I was to do as I was told and to listen, I would feel like I needed to state my case! It was never a really a good one. Thank God I never went into law school.
Then as I got into high school, I learned to listen to my friends when they were sharing their troubles with me. I was that friend and I was proud of it.
I worked as a Nursing Assistant in nursing homes and I started to learn to listen in different ways. Some residents can't speak with their mouth but they could with their eyes!
And then I started listening to my passion pursuit, my inner calling, my intuition, inner compass....whatever you want to call it.
It started with the move out to Colorado on a whim.
Then led to me going to Massage School when I never had any inkling of being a Massage Therapist in my younger years (I wanted to be a ballerina like many young gals). I have now been massaging for over 17 years!
Over time, I received a message (an inner knowing kinda message) when I was at church to apply for Yoga Teacher Training School, barely any money for it but by the end of the weekend I had applied and was accepted. It has changed my life forever.
The day I was meant to come back to my home town, I will never forget the events that happened that day as I was house sitting for friends. A gut punching situation, I had to take a seat and I knew that was the BIG sign I had asked for.
I listened.
And now here I am 2022, I listen to what my yoga students need when we come together for class.
I deeply listen with my coaching clients as to best be of service to them.
And always listening as to how I am feeling and being with myself each day. What do I want to adjust, where am I being led so that life feels better.
When we take the time to quiet the mind chatter, the external/internal jibberish the truth arises. You can feel and know in your entire being where your soul wants to go and be.
Someone asked me over the weekend at a Reiki 2 Training I held, did I ever think I would be where I am today way back then?
I didn't know where I would be. I just knew that I needed to listen and I would be led.
Make the time.
Commit to yourself, to making the time to listen.
And may I add, deeply listen to those around you.
Instead of feeling like you need to listen to have the right thing to to say back to someone.
What if you just deeply listened, without thinking about the response while listening. How much more present could you be with that person and how much more could you hear. Maybe hearing their body language, their eyes, the way they are breathing.
But yes, how much more present than could you be with that person....
Listening.
Listen to your soul. It's waiting to lead you back home to you. In all the ways.
all my love & support,
Theresa