Don’t forget to meditate! Day 23
“If we want to speak our truth and listen deeply, leading with presence gets us on the map. Once we’re actually here, the next step is choosing a helpful intention to ensure that we’re pointed in the right direction ."
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Oren Jay Sofer, Say What You Mean, p. 57
A receptive listening attention brings intimacy with our inner experience and our world. In this meditation, Tara Brach guides us in listening to sounds, states of mind, sensations and the deepest aspiration of our heart.
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (PuddleDancer Press), has sold more than one million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 30 languages. Nonviolent Communication is the integration of four things:
· Consciousness: a set of principles that support living a life of compassion, collaboration, courage, and authenticity
· Language: understanding how words contribute to connection or distance
· Communication: knowing how to ask for what we want, how to hear others even in disagreement, and how to move toward solutions that work for all
· Means of influence: sharing “power with others” rather than using “power over others”
We spend so much of our lives talking to each other, but how much are we simply running on automatic—relying on old habits and hoping for the best? Are we able to truly hear others and speak our mind in a clear and kind way, without needing to get defensive or go on the attack? In this groundbreaking synthesis of mindfulness, somatics, and Nonviolent Communication, Oren Jay Sofer offers simple yet powerful practices to develop healthy, effective, and satisfying ways of communicating.