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Listening to the Inner Voice

2/13/2021

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3rd Video in a series on LISTENING

When I am deaf, dumb and blind to my own inner voice, it’s easy to get lost in the wilderness…

(Wilderness being defined as the place where I  have forgotten who I am… )

Or maybe destination is my problem…

Giving the Car Keys to a Knucklehead...

I  have forgotten where I want to go…because long ago I gave my keys to a knucklehead …or a series of knuckleheads…
 
Or perhaps…just moving fast is what I need… (It can be a useful distraction… ) Just moving felt like progress… for years it distracted me from noticing that I had a happy face sticker covering over an empty gas tank…
 
I was depleted … but these are the fruits of the tree of NOT LISTENING…
 
       • The first focuses on connections to community as a source of strength
       • last week’s is about the privilege of witnessing  the whole of a friend’s lifetime
       • Todays one lifts up the value of listening to the inner…voice…

How do we return to our original source spiritual DNA?

To health? to what we came here to do?
 
We get quiet enough for the sound of silence to be useful, which according to Deepak Chopra in his newest book Total Meditation is the key.  To get quiet so the silence can be useful.
 
Part is about feeling safe enough. Grounded enough to listen.

The spiritual journey (and a good life) begins, developmentally, by being gifted with a safe place to feel that we belong, are wanted, and are safe.  Then we can launch into the world as we understand that to be. 
 
Some of us must take over the gardening of our lives, earlier than others by circling back to find an inner place safe enough to be our best self and do in the world. We can then till the soil of ‘what is’ and bloom as we are able to sow and nurture. But we all must take over …,sometime…as gardeners of our lives.

How do we find a SAFE ENOUGH place to sit and listen?

How do we find a SAFE ENOUGH place to sit and listen?
My answer to both is the sustaining circle of mindfulness…
 
But mindful as defined from a scientist & psychologist, Daniel J. Siegel, from his book 'The Neurobiology of We’ is his definition of mindfulness this:
 
COAL – Curiosity Openness Acceptance and Love.

COAL – Curiosity Openness Acceptance and Love.

               • Curiosity
               • Openness
               • Acceptance and
               • Love.

This is a self-regenerating place…a circle of love
Mary Baker Eddy helps me retuirn to where I started with the driving metaphors:
 
“We have nothing to fear when Love is at the helm of thought.”

Me…I’m sitting back, getting comfortable and giving my car keys to LOVE…God is at the helm of thought.

MEDITATION CHORUS REFRAIN
Sit back.  Relax. 

Breathe into the favorite holding places of your stress
Sit,, breathe  and listen
 
Listening from the place of curiosity & openness creates space for new – new solutions, new ideas.

3rd Video in the LISTENING series
Listening from a place of Acceptance and Love allows us to let go of what no longer serves us.

Get quiet
Get quiet enough to be useful…
 
Drop down to the kingdom within…
Under the turbulence and uncertainty of the surface world
Get quiet …
Get quiet enough to be useful…
Listen to the inner voice…
listen to the kind voice in the silence and in the sound.
 
Safe…nothing to fear … give the car keys to LOVE… sit back; slide over into the passenger’s seat for the next 20 minutes…get comfortable.
God is “at the helm of thought.”

ATTRIBUTIONS:
  1. CSM January 4 & 11 , 2021; p 29 Headed in the Right Direction? Let God steer.
  2. Deepak Chopra in his newest book Total Meditation
  3. Daniel J. Siegel, from his book “ The Neurobiology of We’
  4. Mary Baker Eddy writings
  5. Love fr Richard Rohr Newsletter - Inner and Outer Freedom:
    Freedom to Love.
    6.16.2020
  6. Background video LOTUS from Pexels
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