Listening With the Body

Listening intently is a state of quiet, alert receptivity. Imagine yourself walking in a deep, woodsy forest and you hear a twig snap in the near distance, suddenly your whole body is listening! This level of listening is a deep biological attunement with the environment and field of surrounding energy. It is not just a passive state of receiving, as is sometimes imagined, but a highly alert and reciprocal energetic relationship. It is akin to tuning an instrument, plucking a string then listening, then tightening or loosening the string, and doing it again and again until it is in tune.

What if we saw our whole body as that instrument which is continually in the process of being tuned by biological and cosmic forces. The fluctuating pull of gravity, the electro-magnetic solar flare, the expanding spiral of our galaxy, all tuning the cells of our body. I realized that I have been mostly listening to my body, but not listening with my body. When I listen to my body, I notice there is a subtle duality between my "body" and its "message to me". When I listen with my body, there are no parts that are separate from the bio-cosmic energy field. Then there is only listening!