Listening with an Awake Heart - Part 2 (2018-04-18)

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🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Listening with an Awake Heart - Part 2 (2018-04-18) - Deep listening - to our inner life, each other and our world - is an intrinsic expression of our awakened heart. Yet because we have strong conditioning to be caught in wants and fears, there is often much interference in the field of communications. These two talks are an opportunity to intentionally deepen your capacity to listen in a way that leads to increased understanding and connection. You’ll have the opportunity to investigate what gets between you and deep listening, and to practice the key elements that nurture receptive presence. The second talk includes questions and responses that focus on having an agenda instead of listening, the feeling that we don’t have enough time, listening when we feel reactive (hurt, defensive, intimidated, angry) and the need to feel heard.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:02.6	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:07.8	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:12.4	Namaste and welcome.
0:29.8	Tonight's talk is part two of listening with an away cart.
0:36.0	Our St. Benedict described it listening with the ears of the heart, which I think is quite
0:40.0	lovely.
0:41.9	And I really had to cultivate and awake listening presence to our inner life, to each other,
0:51.9	to our earth, our world.
0:54.6	Really create that intimacy with life.
0:58.1	I received a lot of wonderful questions.
1:02.4	We invited questions last week and received them and have tried as well as I can to respond
1:09.3	to some of them through the talk and then hopefully we'll have time to take some live
1:13.5	questions here also.
1:15.7	But I was just really inspired by the quality of the questions and I think you will be
1:22.0	also.
1:24.3	So I thought I'd start with a story.
1:27.2	I've always loved a woman writes this from a nursing home and she says, if only they
1:32.9	understood how important it is that we be heard.
1:37.6	I can take being in a nursing home.
1:39.4	It's really all right with a positive attitude.
1:42.2	My daughter has her hands full, three kids in a job.
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