I Surrender All

Cherry blossom.

Listening seems easy—until you actually try it.

Not hearing. Not nodding while mentally drafting your rebuttal. But real listening.

The kind that waits. The kind that slows your breath. The kind that says, “I’m not the center of this moment. You are.” In a world that rewards volume, speed, and certainty, listening is a countercultural act. 

It doesn’t feed your ego. It won’t trend. It doesn’t finish the sentence.

But it does build bridges. It can crack open walls. It will make room for the sacred. 

Because sometimes, the most important voice in the room is the one you’ve been talking over— including God’s.

The loudest voice isn’t always the wisest. The first answer isn’t always the truest. And the best response? Might just be the pause.

So today: Be quick to listen. Slow to speak. Slower still to react.

You might be amazed what you hear when you're not the one doing the talking.

“There is an urgency being felt on the planet to heal and transform our world ego/collective shadow into higher vibrations of love and light.” 

-Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)

Hope, Inspiration, Guided by the Universe, Connection to the Divine, Good Health, Prosperity

Our outlook is how we experience the world.  If we are happy, we have a happy outlook.  If we are anxious, the world looks scary.  If we are depressed the world seems oppressive. Our outlook is tainted by our inner state. Our inner state is affected by our outlook. If we want to change our inner state, we can look out for our outlook.

Our outlook feeds our moods. If we confuse our outlook with how things are, then we will unconsciously feed our moods.  If we see problems wherever we turn, we will become annoyed. As we get more and more annoyed, we see more problems. Then we get angry and we start to notice things that tick us off. Then, we get so ticked off that we break down and become sad. When we’re sad, we see things that are wrong with us. Then we become annoyed.

We can get stuck in this kind of cycle at any time. In order to break the cycle, we look out for our outlook. If we notice our opinions and judgements of the people and things around us, we can notice the tone of our thoughts. If the tone is negative, we are feeding our distress. If we catch ourselves doing this, we can help ourselves by refocusing our outlook. We can intentionally expose ourselves to pleasant smells, tastes, sights, sounds, textures and thoughts. There will always be something beautiful in our immediate environment. If we practice looking out for that beauty we change our outlook. We change our world.