Deep Listening

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The phrase “deep listening” recently came to mind out of the blue. Since then, “listening” has come up in day to day conversations, as well as in people’s readings. In one session, a person said listening was frequently coming up for her as well. Within the reading, she was being guided to listen for signs. Another was shown that she was shifting into a time of deep listening with the earth.

How is deep listening tied to the spiritual path? It is key to the path. It’s how we align ourselves. It’s how we come to separate signals from noise. It’s how we gain insight. Inward sight.


I asked my guides about deep listening, this was the response:

Deep Listening is Grace. Grace is often thought of as coming from outside of you, to you, from God, the Divine, Source. But you, too, are givers of Grace.

In deep listening, set yourselves aside and open to that which is in front of you or around you. No judgement. Just open up to it. Even if only for a moment. Such as when you stop to hear wind above you in the trees, or a bird, or a train in the distance.

Not even listening to understand, just to listen. Grace. Presence of Self. Presence for Self. Grace for Self. Grace for Others

Hearing is a sense, one of the five senses. Sense equals knowing. Sense is how you know something. Deep listening is coming to know something. It’s not a mental process of finding the right words or thoughts which with to respond. It doesn’t happen on the mental level. It happens inside of you. You hear deep within.

Listen to anger. Listen to fear. Listen to joy. Listen to sadness. Listen to the natural world, to the mechanized world, to the digital world.

Most of all, listen for love. Listen for what’s underneath. Release the boundaries of yourselves to that which is in front of you and around you. To that which is you. Grace.