Shut up…

Seriously... stop talking...

And listen... can you ask yourself, “do I really listen, or do I simply wait to respond?”

Listen... can you hear the conversation you are having with yourself in your head?

Like... can you hear your own self-talk or are you not yet in relationship with the 23 different parts of your subconscious committee?

Do you hear... HOW you are hearing... other people when they talk?

Do you hear Spirit telling you everything you have been afraid to ask so you fill up your time with busy work to avoid the answer?

Are you aware that your entire reality can be shaped... literally molded and created... in your listening?

Are you aware of your own judgments, attitudes, values, trauma-lens, bias, education, perspectives, emotional triggers, baggage, experienced based subjective opinions, and automatic responses?

You know... the shit you are SO right about?

Are you aware that all of the above mentioned parts ARE DOING THE LISTENING?

It is insane the amount of chaos in our social disconnect and conflict engineered conversations right now from politics to marriage that is rooted in our listening.

The question then becomes, “can I be willing to listen to my listening, honestly?”

And then look... for something new, something different, something that I DIDN’T ALREADY KNOW?!

Whew! That’s a tough one... because what it’s really asking is, “can I be willing to be WRONG about how and what I have been hearing?”

What if we are? Then what?