That’s all there is to it. Just one small decision: any pair can be in a resonant relationship to each other instead of in opposition, and we can change the world. Think of the possibilities!

Continuing to assume that dualities are in opposition, limits our choices. The assumption of opposition requires that we choose one or the other in any duality. The sooner we see the possibility of a relationship between two apparent opposites, the quicker we begin creating a continuum of choices.

For example, we do many common tasks without conscious thought. When we are questioned about these tasks, we often find ourselves defending our point of view. An example of this is a scene from the 70’s television comedy, “All in the Family”. There was a fire in the house. Archie and his son-in-law argued about the order of putting on shoes and socks during an emergency. Was it better to put on one sock and one shoe or to put on both socks but no shoes in the limited time of getting out of the house? Each was locked into an opposing point of view by the other, neither would agree with the other and no compromise choices could be presented…while the fire gained strength. If you have ever felt a like confusion, the following Energy Exercise demonstrates the tenacity of opposition and the power resonance gives us to overcome it.

Energy Exercise - Listening

The next time you are having a discussion with someone, when the other person is speaking, stop framing your next point and focus only on the other person’s words. What is the person actually saying? What is the person’s point of view?

Explanation

When you are thinking about your next point while the other person is speaking, that person often becomes aware that they do not have your full attention. When you start listening, the link between both of you changes. The balance in the quality of communication has changed. You have upped the ante. You are listening…and nothing else. This forces the other person to choose his or her words more carefully so they will hold this new level of attention that you are exhibiting. You have changed the rules and created an imbalance. The other person must respond by expressing themselves more honestly in order to re-establish balance. When you listen without judgment, you can hear the truth in their words.

My first experience with the power of listening was on the Seneca Nation of Indians reservation in Western New York. I’d been hired to draft a 5 Year Plan for the reservation. This was during the heyday of planning in the mid to late 70’s before Reaganomics.

During my first week we had an important meeting with all program heads and department managers. As I stood and looked out over all those faces, I was suddenly hit by a wave of energy as each person focused their total awareness on me. My planned speech went right out of my mind. As I regained my balance, I began giving them exactly what they needed to know about the planning process – simply and clearly. I spoke from my heart, because they were listening from their hearts.

When we really listen to someone, we stop listening to our own thoughts. This takes us out of our limited world and places us in a new world…that of the other person.

Medicine Wheels – Tools for Listening

Native Americans know how to listen because they do not limit their listening to their ears. They listen with all their senses. According to the Seneca there are 7 Senses: hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, touching, feeling and awareness. The Energy Exercise above is a way to begin learning to listen with all our senses.

The Seneca use medicine wheels to formalize communication. Medicine wheels are any circle, sphere or cyclical form. The planet we live on is a medicine wheel. The sun is a medicine wheel in its form and in its day/night pattern. The pattern of the seasons forms still another medicine wheel. Our very lives are a medicine wheel. Medicine wheels are the spiritual essence of everything.

The medicine wheel is a convenient layout for a meeting of people. All interested parties sit in a circle around a central point, often a fire. The fire represents the Truth. The people in the circle around it represent different points of view. Each point of view is equally valid because it is a circle.

A talking stick is handed clockwise around the circle. Each person has an opportunity to speak. All others listen. When we are handed the talking stick, first we reflect on what has been said and then we add our point of view. When all have spoken, a decision can usually be reach. If not, the talking stick is passed again.

Gwenio.com

There are many ways to learn to listen. Most of them stop with using our ears. At Gwenio.com, we explore listening with all our senses, speaking the truth and creating our world by the decisions we make. Resonance is the tool we use to bring ourselves into harmony with the world around us. When you listened to the other person in the exercise above, you brought yourself into resonance with that person. You do not have to agree with that point of view but once you listen, you will have an understanding of a different view from your own. Resonance produces that understanding.

Communicating is understanding.
Understanding leads toward peace of mind.
Peace of mind leads toward happiness.
Happiness is communicating.

Moses Shongo, Seneca elder

The Energy Exercise above will change your life, however, if you would like to learn more about listening and how the medicine wheel can help you connect with others in resonance, sign-in to Gwenio.com. The Seneca medicine wheels, Body Wisdom Wheel, Pathway of Peace and Cycles of Truth, are an Elegant Web of body, mind and will that connect you not only with your own inner truth and desires but will link you to the universal energy of creation.

Over the years of treating, teaching and counseling using resonance and medicine wheels, a process has evolved that is easily learned and highly affective. This process is called Applied Resonance Therapy. The steps in the process are:

Diagnosis – where is the energy stuck
Energy – what energy is stuck
Energy Exercises – how do we create resonance
Gratitude – where do we go from here

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