2004-08-27-A Lesson on Listening

Session

Lesson

Let us begin with the topic of listening. It is a most difficult skill to master, as most listening is done superficially. Most people listen but is seems to ‘go in one ear and out of the other’, because of un-focused listening. Listening is a skill which can and needs to be cultivated and refined over and over by the one who does the listening. It has everything to do with focusing and the level of intent. Outward listening is shallow, the reason for this is also a sort of protection because of the cacophony of way too many words on this planet, which are carelessly and thoughtlessly spoken, so the hearer develops a ‘deaf ear.’ This can be a subconscious protection against too much noise.

Actually, the listening I would bring to your attention, is the inner listening, which is even more difficult and discerns the motive and truth content behind the spoken word, and learns to ‘read between the lines,’ so to speak, and ‘feels’ with the heart.’ The words which are not being spoken, and in this manner discerns what lives in the other person’s heart with whom one has the conversation, and I am not speaking about superficial chit chat here. All too often when someone speaks, the other is already busy formulating an answer in the mind because of wanting to respond before the speaker is finished, and often the speaker gets interrupted by the impatient one, who can’t wait to have a say. Sometimes this is a fine line as some speakers repeat themselves and don’t know how to end a conversation.

Listening is a skill that needs to be refined over and over again, as more wisdom and discernment is being gathered. And of course the ultimate listening skill you develop is by paying full attention to My words, while it is oh so easy to come in between with your own thoughts, pre-opinions and belief-systems, especially when you sincerely doubt, whether it is I, who speaks, or of they are ruminations from your own mind. In times to come you will doubt no longer as you will unmistakenly know, who it is, that speaks from within you.

You can ask yourself these questions: “Have I been uplifted while being in the presence of my Beloved? Am I feeling loved and is my own love towards others increasing? Am I feeling more secure within myself and have a calmer demeanor?”

If you can answer in the affirmative, then you know that you are on the ‘right track’, and if others chide you and say that it is not possible to hear the Small Voice within, that is because they have not recognized Me within them yet, or they have not yet developed the required listening skills, so My words do not resonate within them, and they presume to pass judgment because of this lack of recognition in their own hearts.

Continue to learn and listen to My voice, stay focused and pay close attention as I Am leading you deeper into yourself.