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Listening is a way of knowing the world
LISTENING
PRACTICE
Listening is an active relationship with place, sound, memory and presence.
When we listen deeply, the world becomes vivid. We slow down and open to what is here, in the near and the far, in the loud and the subtle, in the seen and the unseen. Listening is an invitation to connection. With ourselves, with each other, and with the more-than-human world.
PAUSE
Stop. Take a breath.
arrive in the present moment.
NOTICE
Become aware of your surroundings with gentle attention.
LISTEN
Open to the sounds
around and within.
Listen with curiosity.
REFLECT
Let what you hear
inform your inner
landscape.
THE PROMPTS
LISTENING IN PLACE
Listening begins where you are.
The sounds of wind, distance, weather,
movement, architecture and silence
become invitations to awareness.
Every place has a voice.
we are invited to hear it.
THE PRACTICE
MONTHLY PRACTICE
January
Listen for the quit beneath the day
February
Listen for the warmth inside your chest
March
Listen for something opening
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