Comments on: Listening With My Ego http://theadvancedsoul.com/2007/01/10/listening-with-my-ego/ All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within. Sun, 20 May 2012 15:06:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Greg Hankerson http://theadvancedsoul.com/2007/01/10/listening-with-my-ego/#comment-74 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:40:55 +0000 http://theadvancedsoul.com/2007/01/10/listening-with-my-ego/#comment-74 That makes good sense Simon! Yes, I confirm that your words were helpful and I will try that out. :) Thanks! That makes good sense Simon! Yes, I confirm that your words were helpful and I will try that out. :) Thanks!

]]> by: Secret Simon http://theadvancedsoul.com/2007/01/10/listening-with-my-ego/#comment-73 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:31:31 +0000 http://theadvancedsoul.com/2007/01/10/listening-with-my-ego/#comment-73 This is a great practice, Greg, and it sounds to me like you're going about it in the right way. The most important thing, as with any such practice, is to remember to do it, so keep it up on that board and write it down any other place you can as well. We were taught a practice very like this at my practical philosophy class. The idea is to listen with your full attention till the other person has finished speaking and then leave a short pause before speaking yourself. Then the theory goes that if you are really there in the moment, then the words will come into your head if it is appropriate for you to speak. The words will be there without any necessary forethought. Unfortunately I haven't yet managed to trust that much! But at least one can listen, not interrupt, leave that pause, and then speak, and perhaps get a feeling for whether the words are designed to serve the other person or one's own ego! And now, of course, my ego desires confirmation that these words have been helpful. Life gets tricky, doesn't it? This is a great practice, Greg, and it sounds to me like you’re going about it in the right way. The most important thing, as with any such practice, is to remember to do it, so keep it up on that board and write it down any other place you can as well. We were taught a practice very like this at my practical philosophy class. The idea is to listen with your full attention till the other person has finished speaking and then leave a short pause before speaking yourself. Then the theory goes that if you are really there in the moment, then the words will come into your head if it is appropriate for you to speak. The words will be there without any necessary forethought. Unfortunately I haven’t yet managed to trust that much! But at least one can listen, not interrupt, leave that pause, and then speak, and perhaps get a feeling for whether the words are designed to serve the other person or one’s own ego!

And now, of course, my ego desires confirmation that these words have been helpful. Life gets tricky, doesn’t it?

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