May 06 2008
The Art of Metaphysical Listening
The client I was listening to was audibly upset. She went through anger and rage, then came to tears and grief. She felt betrayed once again by the actions of a loved one. For some healing arts practitioners, getting a client to work through her emotions is enough. For me, it’s just the starting place, the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. In my sessions, whatever is happening emotionally or mentally is a doorway into the energetic realms, where the cause of what is going on can be found. To do this I use what I call metaphysical listening to read vibration. What’s going on in this realm are clues for me to track the “distortion” to the source. To facilitate this I ask, “What’s really going on here?”
Before speaking more about metaphysical listening, please understand there is some discernment applied here. The emotional response must be allowed to calibrate or move through the body and conscious awareness. To jump to the “cause” before this, will not be beneficial. Certain levels of grief, such as the recent passing of a loved one, or of outrage need to be honored for just what they are. For understanding more about emotions please read Emotions as Energetic Messengers.
Throughout my years as an energy healer and soul intuitive, I’ve used my listening skills in a unique way. I listen to the energy vibration behind the form. I do this by asking the question, “What’s really going on here?”
Listening is different from hearing. Hearing involves the inner ear, the chochlea, tympanic membrane and other hearing anatomical parts. Listening involves the middle ear which creates the container for the auditory canal. There are little tiny muscles in the middle ear which work constantly to open and close the ear, effectively choosing what it wants to listen to. As such, listening is governed by the brain which includes memories, belief systems, values and other deciding elements of what to listen to.
Sometimes the middle ear gets stuck open, and too much sound floods the brain, overstimulating it. The brain then can get confused and not able to make sense or put into order the incoming sound information. The opposite can occur with the middle ear too closed down, not letting in enough sound. In this case the brain can suffer from a lack of sound stimulation (both sound and sight are a form of food for the brain) and become depressed.
The sound of your own voice is incredibly healing. A simple exercise that helps alleviate depression, reorient yourself in space (as hearing affects balance), and synchronize your brain interpretation centers for sight and sound, is to make a fist and place it just under the chin. Then read out loud from a book for 10 minutes a day. The fist acts as a microphone, just slightly amplifying sound and redirecting it back toward the ears. This is also an exercise that clarifies speech (and singing) as the mouth can only produce what the ear hears.
Mozart music has been shown to be incredibly healing for the middle ear. The Tomatis Method was developed by a french audiologist who worked with a lot of opera singers. It focuses on healing listening and uses the very high violin tones in Mozart music to achieve this. After a session with the Tomatis Method, the middle ear can actually feel sore as if it had been lifting little tiny barbells for a while.
Two important aspects of good listening have to do with the bones and establishing the dominant ear. We don’t just listen through our ears but also the bones. The ears, however, should be the primary sound receiver. People who haven’t established this, are hypersensitive to sounds and literally feel too much. Sounds coming in from the bones are to alert the ears to an incoming sound. The chochlea then determines the meaning of the sound and sends it off to the correct part of the brain. If the chochlea isn’t involved, then the only interpretation for sound is one of defendedness. The right ear should be the dominant ear because of its connection to the left brain, that part of the brain associated with language and speech. If the left ear is dominant, then the processing of sound is delayed and slowed down as it is rerouted to the right ear first.
The vestibular sense is located in the ear and besides regulating balance, muscle tone, and the muscles of the eye, it also, with the help of the chochlea, interprets and relays all sensory information to the brain. This inludes touch and sight as well as sound.
Good listenting starts with these components. But when you want to move into metaphysical listening, you must switch from the form (sound) to the vibration of the form. To do this takes stating the intention to listen to the vibration through, around and behind the form. This instructs your listening mechanisms what to focus on.
Obvious uses of metaphysical listening are communicating with your guides (clairaudience) but metaphysical listening involves more than that. If I want to connect with those energies that align me to the quality of joy, I can “listen” to them which then moves me into joy. It likes a radio…I can tune the dial to listen to depressing, negative news or I can learn something new on NPR or I can tune into a concert.
The following podcast healing meditation is intended to heal listening and then activate metaphysical listening. To fully access the healing and the activation inherit within the meditation, you’ll need to financially donate (in the upper corner of the blog). The amount doesn’t matter, but the act of donation signifies to the guides that are working with the meditation your intention.
An alternative is to order The Art of Metaphysical Listening CD which includes not only this healing meditation but a specific sound healing by Aleya Dao for the ears, hearing, and listening. This sound healing was developed specifically for this CD and for the Higher Sense Perception Mastery Course.
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