Will you just listen to yourself!
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007I have a challenge for you. In this exercise, whenever you see….. (dots)….., pause for at least 5 seconds……or even 10 (or 11).
Sit somewhere quiet (that’s not the challenge, but if you lived here it would be).
Listen to the sound of my voice inside your head……as you read this to yourself….or another voice….perhaps someone you know better….. and trust a little more….and then….listen to the sounds you can hear inside the room….maybe the sounds of the chair creaking…..or your own breathing….or the faint draughts beneath the door…….and now listen to the sounds outside the room….the TV wittering….. or the washing machine….or perhaps some birds singing….or cars going by….and now….listen to the sounds you can only just hear….just beyond the sounds just outside the room….the sounds in the distance….sounds you are not sure are really there….and continue to listen further and further…. into the distance…. until it can only be the sounds…. which you…. imagine you can hear…. that you can hear now….sounds from the coast…..sounds from the sea….sounds from far distant lands…..sounds from the atmosphere…..sounds from space…..sounds from another planet…..another star…..another galaxay….another universe….so that when you can hear such sounds…. all the way to the edge of beyond (the hidden edge)…..listen, exclusively, to these…… most distant sounds…..and understand….. that these are the sounds of your soul….telling you what it is….. you would most love to do next……and then…..you can just drift a while………………………………………………………..or wake up.
And when you wake up, wiggle your toes and your nose and anything else that feels in need of a wiggle and write me a response telling me what it was that you heard and whether you are already doing it now, or are putting it off until the cows come home.