Every morning I enjoy reading the short chapter of the day in the book The Sacred Art of Listening and sitting in silence with what resonates right then and there.

Sometimes I feel moved to write, most often lately my experience feels more private.

I listen for guidance, perspective, a quiet feeling. I am not listning for what is next but to what is Now.

Deep listening, I have found, is love in action.

If I had to make steps out of it there would be three, and they would look something like this:

First, I feel the love I have for myself.

Second, I See the other person, genuinely wanting them to have everything their heart desires. I go from a great feeling of love for myself to feeling very generous towards the other person.

Third, I feel the heart to heart connection, the space in which reflection, vision, guidance, clarity and change thrives.

It’s very simple - There is only step one, and that is really not even a step. It's a feeling from which step two and three are natural by-products.

Have you paused for love today?
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An insight is accurate information arising from the quiet space within. Like puzzle pieces finding their perfect fit.

Listening for insight is listening for inner peace. Peace is not found in thinking. Peace is what happens as our thinking quiets down.

What if there were no goals to achieve or areas of life to divide up into segments? What if you knew you already lived the highest and brightest version of You, in all that you do?

Up until this moment you just didn’t know it.

We have a habit of dividing the areas of our life up into to segments in an attempt to create balance - family life, work life, me time, us time.

The list is endless - I know.

I’m a sucker for writing lists and attempting to put areas of my life onto a piece of paper and into a schedule of when to do what.

I’ve noticed it is my go-to thing that I do when I feel the most overwhelmed.

I do it to control. As if it is possible for me to control and make solid the fluidity of life itself.

I make those lists and schedules less and less nowadays.

I have become more sensitive to the subtle hints life gives me, that lets me know whether I’m mesmerised by the thoughts in my head or listening from my heart.

A few of the hints life gives me? Easily irritated or impatient with small things, like the zipper on my jacket not zipping the first time around. Breathing from my chest and not my belly.

Are you moving with the gentle flow of life or trying to control the current?
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Understanding is different from agreeing.

Listening for understanding is uncovering what we have in common, not whether we agree or disagree.

All human beings have in common that we think, and we each act on the thinking that we believe is true - our thinking feels true therefore it must be true, but believing something is true is very different from it being true.

All human beings are of the same fabric or energy as nature and the universe. Because we think we are separate we treat each other as separate, but in fact we are one. When we hurt others, we are hurting ourselves. When we truly love ourselves, we naturally love others.

All human beings are conscious. We are born with the awareness to Know that we think and who we are. At any giving moment the possibility of seeing this is present. 
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Do you feel a deep sense of peace and relaxation in conversation with others, or are you more concerned about what could happen if you share what shows up for you in the conversation?

What if you being yourself, and being loving and accepting, is what is most empowering to the person you are with?

For me, being myself meant discovering who I am. This meant me committing to look beyond the mental stories, the beliefs, I had innocently created about myself over time.

This is what I ask of my clients - for their commitment to look beyond who they think they are for the sake of discovering the essence of who they are.
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Have you heard your heart speak? Have you listened deeply from a state of appreciation, patience, silence and presence? 

I'm know you have heard your heart speak, and more than you realize.

When our heart speaks it comes with clarity and certainty - in combination a solid feeling of unwavering calm and Truth. Your Truth!

This, lets call it Knowing, is the felt experience right before the intellect gets involved - Chatting away with all the reasons of why and why not. And before we know it we have forgotten what we originally Knew.

Listen for what you Know.
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