The Listen Shift

Let’s take a long, deep breath and do one of my favorite Shifts of all time…

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Set the intention to be fully present for the next little while.

We’ll carry that intention into the rest of our days.

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Feel the intention to be present sincerely being set inside you.

Notice how it feels inside your body to be intentional about that.

Listen to life with me now.

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I'm gonna step over here to the corner of the hut where I have The Listen Shift poster that we'll go through today.

The Listen Shift poster was created to introduce a book that I wrote ~10 years ago called Be Your Purpose.

What I learned writing Be Your Purpose was the power, importance and value of developing the skill of intentional listening, and building it into your life.

For me, it’s the core of life.

I put the poster on my wall so I would go through it frequently.

‘Read this each morning’ is the instruction on it, in fact.

Let's do that now.

Take another long, deep breath — and close your eyes if you want.

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LISTEN

IT’S HAPPENING ALREADY

YOU HAVE ONE CHOICE EACH MOMENT: LISTEN OR BE DISTRACTED.

Read this each morning to master listening...

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LISTEN ALWAYS

Your life is not a story about what happens to you.

Your life is an experience happening as you, right now.

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LISTEN INTENSELY

Listening opens your path to living fearlessly.

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LISTEN FEARLESSLY

Be the most focused you’ve ever been.

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LISTEN FEEL

Feel the experience unfolding through you.

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LISTEN NOTICE

Notice you’re translating your experience into thoughts.

Notice the pace of your thoughts in this moment.

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LISTEN PATIENTLY

Sped up thinking expresses anxiety, stress, resistance, attachment,

pain, ego, fear and misunderstanding what life is.

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LISTEN CHILL

Invite your thoughts to slow down.

Don’t tell your story.

Hear to your story.

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LISTEN BREATHE

Whatever your dreams, your goals, your faith, your past, your future or your story about how life works, life keeps unfolding into and through you, revealing your next step perfectly, each moment you listen.

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LISTEN PERFECTLY

It’s a challenge to consistently remember you are making one choice each moment of your life.

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LISTEN REMEMBER

When you forget to listen you become old thoughts and stories.

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LISTEN PRACTICE

Practicing grows you into a more consistent listener.

Listen until listening becomes second nature.

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LISTEN TRUST

Trust life, over and over.

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LISTEN COURAGEOUSLY

Is your inner dialogue running on autopilot?

Are you suffering based on unfounded fears?

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LISTEN PLAY

“You are the music while the music lasts. This image of a fulfillment, achieved through mutuality and by the exercise of purely mental powers remained with me throughout my life, telling me that, whatever trouble or frustration may come to me I have only to open a book, listen to a symphony, or run my pen across a blank sheet of paper, and I will be back home.” — Roger Scruton

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LISTEN CHOOSE

The meaningful choice you make each moment is whether to listen, knowing life is unfolding through you, as you, right now.

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LISTEN HEAR

What you hear in this moment is what you are in this moment.

Remembering this truth invites life to flow unresisted through you.

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LISTEN WATCH

Your inner movie is your history repeating.

Watch the story your thoughts are telling.

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LISTEN SEE

See your body as life flowing.

See your illusory nature.

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LISTEN SHIFT

Shift from a human being having a spiritual experience into a spiritual being having a human experience.

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LISTEN MOVE

Walk the pace of your miracle.

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LISTEN BE

You are not separate from life.

You are flowering life.

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LISTEN GROW

The way you’ll feel, the things you’ll say, the thoughts you’ll have and the life you’ll live tomorrow are a reflection, a by-product, a result, a consequence, a reshuffling of the way you are feeling, the thoughts you are having, the things are saying, and the life you are living right now, today.

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LISTEN AGAIN

The human brain and body change through repetition.

Inner change, human change, can occur slowly.

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LISTEN DISCOVER

Discover yourself as life.

Discover freedom.

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LISTEN KNOW

Bodies and stories are temporary.

You, life, is always.

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LISTEN AWAKEN

Awaken to your miracle.

Follow your path.

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LISTEN

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Can you notice the space inside your mind right now?

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The space was hidden moments ago when thoughts ruled, dragging you through noise, filling you, foreground to background thick with sound.

Step further between your thoughts now.

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Watch the slow motion symphony, brilliance.

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Then, follow silence through the fiction.

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See your history return along the way, visiting again, if only a flash veiling your path, an old thought, an old story returns once more.

Step back into space again, each moment.

Release the uncertain.

Those rogue children of thoughts past.

The old noise jumbling.

Soothe the yearning echo, listening, until you arrive in a quiet— a space behind thoughts.

Sit down there, beside stillness.

Look around now, silently.

Slowly.

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Up.

Down.

In.

Out.

Take your time.

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Rest.

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Listen aside the abyss.

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You’ll step back from the ledge soon enough.

Ziggidy-zag-a-ding-a-rat-tat-tat-ta-ting you’ll journey back through the thickets of a thousand thoughts where noise fogs over.

If you sit close today though, you may find settlement tonight on some quiet, nearby, nowhere nook.

And before noise fogs again you may drift softly to dreams until tomorrow’s dawn lights your trek back, here again, to the life’s only question:

Will I dive into the abyss today?

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LISTEN, LIVE, LISTEN, REPEAT.

You are life animating form.

Be undistracted by convention.

Feel life on your skin.

Hear silence ring.

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LISTEN FOLLOW ...

BE YOUR PURPOSE

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That's it.

How was your Listen Shift?

That's a morning ritual that I love.

Use it anytime.

Here’s The Listen Shift poster if you want to download it.

Be Your Purpose, The Listen Shift Poster

641KB ∙ PDF file

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For me, reading it is a repetitive reminder that listening is at the core of life.

Listening brings you into presence and honors silence.

Have a great rest of your day!

I'll talk to you soon.

Stay present.

Sean

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