Listening,
Flow and Change
By Sandra Cosentino, April, 2005
“Listening
does not take place unless you are willing to be changed.
Otherwise,
you are just waiting for an opening to talk.”
Alan
Alda, National Public Radio interview,
February 4, 2005
Do you hear
a voice whispering in the background of your busy life
that seems to be calling you to some mystery? Subtle
but always there, a presence that you sense is somehow
your real essence. If we really let the voice of our soul
and its connection to the universe flow into us, what will
happen?
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What blocks our knowingness,
which if heard, may lead to bold expression of innate creativity? Who is this me I have created
as protection from pain--this inner critic that is afraid to Listen? Afraid
to change, we keep oh so busy, unwilling to hear the voice of our
dreams, the perspective of another person, the song of the bird
who comes near us, the wake up call coming from Mother Earth as
she shifts her axis and magnetic poles and weather patterns.
Physics, like ancient
earth-based spiritual practices, have shown us we are part of
an expanding, dynamic universe. That every cell of our body is
directly connected to the these flowing energies. That
systems that are closed will build up pressure for release and
change. We live in a sentient universe that responds to our
observation, our thoughts, our energies. Just as when we
listen to the messages constantly coming to us from our body, nature,
friends, society, we shift. We become more fluid and wave
like, less contracted. This sets off our inner alarm--takes
us into resistance, avoidance.
Humans are uniquely
gifted with conscious ability to witness ourselves and create
dynamic change, yet we so often limit this gift to what our logical,
domesticated mind can conceive and control. We
ignore the other ways of perceiving and direct knowing our animal
friends so eloquently use all the time. Each animal species
has a group soul, a dynamic energetic that is freely offered to
us humans to enlarge our energy field and abilities, yet we don’t
invite that wisdom in. We fear being in the wild places they inhabit
on the landscape and in our inner world.
Medicine animals in
popular literature have been reduced to symbolic definitions
so that even if we are open to their presence in our lives, we
limit their expression by being overly defining. We
miss the humor, the surprising variety of ways they reveal profound
wisdom to us in our dreams, meditations and instant knowing. And
even more importantly, they bring us direct energetic vibrations
that help us release heavy energies and raise our frequency.
Medicine is coming
into direct contact with Universal Source
energies which restores our balance and perspective. This
is the essence of healing. When our minds block flow, when
we quit listening, so often our bodies grab our attention by developing
symptoms that force us to listen. Calling us back to our bigger
cosmic blueprint. The cells of our bodies are never disconnected
from Source. Like our medicine animal friends, our body is
a true and loyal friend.
Many people in the
modern world are responding to a voice that calls them to pilgrimage
to landscapes that evoke awe and expanded awareness. Charged
places that renew our energies and awaken new potentialities.
The inner mystic is awakening in Western culture calling us back
to a place of connectedness to spontaneous life and aliveness.
Paired with being willing
to listen, and hence change, is the action dynamic that gets
set in motion in our life. Then
we face the challenge to express and speak our truth. Just
as listening does not occur without being willing to change, living
your truth does not take place unless you are willing to reveal
yourself, to risk disapproval, to move from passive to active mode.
So when you are right
there at that edge place moving into unfamiliar terrain, welcome
the fear, use its energy as adrenalin to be so alive and aware. Just as when you are in a wilderness that
has big predators, you are so aware and alive and in the moment. To
survive you have to pay attention, be one with that world.
Ancient humans living
close to the earth knew well too the power of intention and using
ceremony and group energy to evoke change. We
are conscious channels for direction of life energies.
So what might happen
in your life if your began really listening to the voice of your
soul that is whispered on the wind, radiating from the stars,
reflected to you in inner responses to people in your life, expressed
in body language such as gut tightening or heart opening, or
in the dream of the eagle pecking on our head calling you to
go fly and get the bigger picture of who you really are and of
your vast potent-reality.
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written
April 7, 2005
updated March 3, 2008