When you're listening in that attuned way, we evolve.

The things that need to come to the surface come to the surface, you unfold quicker.

Welcome to the art of accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves and others leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease.

I'm Brett Kistler, here today with my co-host, Joe Hudson.

So one of the first things that we do in this work is that we teach people how to listen.

And it's also interesting that it's not just one of the first things that happens in the work. It's also one of the things that happens in the middle and later on.

And some of our more advanced courses, we come straight back to listening.

And so we've used the metaphor of the sushi rice before to talk about some of these really basic kind of 101s that aren't really 101s.

They're actually some of the whole practice that you just get deeper and deeper on.

And so I'd love to get deeper on the topic of listening today.

How's that sound?

Yeah, that sounds great.

Great.

So let's get into it.

In the way that we speak about it in this work, what is listening and what is it not?

Yeah. So here's the weird part about listening is that there's no moment of awake consciousness

where you're not listening. So you're always listening to something. Maybe you're listening

to the thoughts in your head or maybe you're listening to the other person or maybe you're listening to the thoughts in your head or maybe you're listening

to the other person or maybe you're listening to the pain in your foot. But your awareness is

always on something. So there's a way in which you're always listening. So there's a caliber of

listening or there is an attention given to listening that changes a lot. And so just as a very simple experiment, if right now you put all of your attention, if you're

listening to this, put all of your attention on your inner ear, just like keep all the focus

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