Listening at a Higher Level
Listening at a Higher Level
When we allow this dance of life to continue, awakening our learning process, we can reap so much more than when we tune out. First, learn how to attune to listening internally to sensations that reveal more about what’s beginning to happen in your biology and neurology. More ancient cultures were naturally attuned to their surroundings and the internal sensations that arose, helping each, whether human, animal, or plant life, to recognize danger more effectively.
I can only speak from my own experiences, but I realize that you, like me, also possess this same ability that helps inform each of us better on how to proceed. Do we move forward or regress backward? Sometimes we need to pause, reset, and even go back a bit to find a pathway that might have seemed elusive at first, regroup, and then proceed forward. I am grateful for the opportunity to share these ideas with you, as I gained significant benefits and learned a great deal while hiking in Sedona and Tucson, Arizona, last week. I’m back and here to share not only the splendor and magnificence of our country but also the kindness and friendliness of those others, enjoying the beauty of being in nature. While the experience of climbing to the mountain tops is both restorative and taxing, as I listened and climbed thousands of feet up the mountains, I drank in the beauty of nature. Although it is arduous and complex, it restores and replenishes one’s whole being.
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”– Carlos Castaneda
I learned that through listening, I was able to overcome significant difficulties by employing internal listening with patience and perseverance. The Buddhists teach that life involves suffering, and learning how to pause, listen, and calm the noise of fear enables a resolve to think about what I want and need to support whatever obstacles stand before me. I never give up; I find another way to overcome those events that, at first, would appear insurmountable. As a little girl, on the train, said to Winston Churchill, “Never, never give up”, and those who know me realize I never give up!
“Let us not go back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” -James Thurber
Restored and renewed, I am back, sharing my Awareness Through Movement (ATM) classes four times a week, as well as resuming in-person sessions with Functional Integration (FI) and virtual Guided Learning sessions. I hope you will reach out and join me to enjoy a small, intimate classes that share how we can awaken to adapting and modifying just about any lesson for learning and listening at a higher level.
I hope I have earned the privilege of your time and attention this week. As we are in the month of Thanksgiving, I wish you all the warmest wishes for finding greater balance and ease in life as we move forward.
Warmest,
Peggi
