listen … your ears are huge.
Listen to beyond what you think you can hear. Clear-hearing, or clairaudience, is the ability that we all have to hear sounds that exist beyond physical sound waves. In our daily life, familiar sounds travel through our ear canal into our eardrum, which then passes the vibrations through the middle ear bones into the inner ear or cochlea. The inner ear is shaped like a snail shell with thousands of tiny hair cells—these change the vibrations into electrical signals that are sent to our brain through a nerve and is interpreted there and made ordinary sense of. But what about extraordinary sounds? When have you heard a word, or a faint ringing or buzz, or the sound of a door opening—without any physical explanation?
Developing your clairaudience is a tremendous opportunity for expanding your consciousness. Humming, singing, or toning is an opener for you—practice all ways of creating sounds, loud and soft, and scaling up and down, whispering, and listening to their after-vibration. The more you generate sounds the more they come back to you in mysterious ways.
Here’s a practice: focus on all the physical sounds you can hear. Consciously separate them out and recognize them. Then try hearing them all at the same time, as a symphony. Then include the silence that is embedded in every sound. Then listen for what you can’t hear.
As in all stillness work, practicing the paradox of being both the verb and the noun, the being and the becoming, the listener and the sound itself creates wholeness and wellbeing in your spirit.