Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet Podcast
Releasing Tuesday April 21,2020
Episode 34 Blog Listening Through Our Heart
Picture your ears in your heart. How clearly do you hear
now or how deaf might you be? What resonances and vibrations are you tuned to
and what range have you lost?
We can hear but not be listening. Listening is BEing in
awareness. Doesn’t have to mean understand what you are hearing. And, that can
be good because it will often lead to you asking questions. It is about BEing open. Open to hearing what
you might not expect or what you know is the truth and you are in resistance
to. Denial is a very powerful state to
hear in.
Listening to our inner quiet can be challenging if you are
used to outer stimulation defining you. From our births we are being imprinted
with information and being tuned in our education of our bodies and mind. We
can come into agreement or we can go subversive and shut down and tune out what will become chatter to the mind. We look to escape and then what we are listening to
within is not always evolving in wonder and appreciation only in fight, flight,
frozen reactions and pain and fear.
We are designed as predator/prey creatures and to make
decisions, choices, about our safety without thinking consciously. To take time to
think means you could be dead in those situations. Reactions are instinctive
and necessary. But most of daily life is about the value of responding. Where
you stop the triggered reaction and merge awareness of the whole situation and
have a chance to get deeper than the body’s instincts.
We can listen to the outside world or we can focus on our
inner voice. The outside is good to check in with but it doesn’t need to
dictate how we are feeling within. And they may be two very different
experiences of reality.
You can listen when you come out from behind your sense of
hurt heart into the expansiveness of a whole heart. When your innocence is
present as curiosity.
When you drop your expectations to be found in your biases and perceptions in your story.
You can listen clearly when you are aware of your agendas running
and are willing to relax them.
You can listen when you are not closed off to the other.
You can listen when you value the other.
In this reality of life it is easier than you might think
to listen. It only takes your willingness.
Being present now is about living in an expanded heart
sense. It is about enlightened action in the quiet of the sacred. It is about
living life to its fullest for each of us.
It is about alignment with our living
planet and inhabitants.
It is about the value of BEing in awareness of the All.
Janet Barrett
Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
