Working with sound makes one highly sensitive to the subtle energies that are always at work and at play in our physical bodies, our thoughts, our emotion and our interactions. Here is a meditation designed to help you open your ear chakras wider and wider, making it easier to perceive and thus have some response-ability toward sublte energies.
Sit quietly and listen. Begin by listening as you normally do...to your breath perhaps, the noise of a pet or of people speaking in the next room. Tune in to as many different sounds as you can. Then turn your attention inward. Begin to listen to your own heartbeat, the sound of your internal organs digesting or secreting or working, the sound of your cells dividing and your bones growing. It may at first take some imagination. That is fine. Our imaginations have the power to lead us into new perceptions, as imagination is really attention.
Now, begin to expand your hearing to things beyond your immediate surroundings. Can you hear the neighbors, cars on the freeway a block away, crowds cheering at a game in the next town, planes flying in the skies of a state across the country? You get the idea. Expand your hearing into space. Listen to satellites shifting. Listen to the sun's flares boiling. Listen to the sounds of empty space.
Finally, bring your attention back to your immediate surroudings. Do you hear more now than you did? Does the hiss of the refrigerator sound different...perhaps it has more layers, more overtones? Is your breath noisier? Whatever sounds you hear, relish them. And know that the work you have just done will work for you.
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