It is a universal truth that most people are struggling to listen.

Impatiently waiting for their moment of interruption to state whatever has just popped into their mind.

You know what’s worse?

The same people have also disconnected from themselves and ultimately from the highest source of intelligence.

Now, they can’t hear others, they can’t hear themselves, and they can’t hear the beautiful melody of life.

If you want to learn how you can see and understand people beyond words, how to have more confidence in your decision-making, and in time connect with your higher self, then you are in the right place.

Listening from within

When it comes to listening it’s not just about listening to other people.

The art of listening is the ability to hear, see, and understand what the universe is telling you at any given moment.

• Listening beyond words

• Listening beyond action

• Listening beyond hearing and seeing

Listening from within with a sense of feeling, intuition, that knowing but not knowing how.

When you think of listening you think of sounds happening outside of you.

Sound emits a vibration through which it enters your ear, and the bones in the middle ear amplify the sound vibration, ultimately traveling to the brain.

Vibration.

In the words of Nikola Tesla:

This is the whole process and the Art of Listening.

Listening in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.

Every single person, yes even you, can tap into the more subtle parts of yourself. This is referred to as intuition or higher self.

When your phone is ringing and without even looking at it you just know who it is. You feel it but you don’t know how.

Here is another example that happens quite often and it’s usually women who experience this more often.

You meet with a friend and your friend says he has something to tell you. Before they even start talking, you already have a good feeling about what he’s going to say.

That’s vibration. Frequency. Energy.

The person is emitting their energy through thoughts, emotions, and feelings, while you on the other end are receiving all of that before he even says a word.

Some of us are just more attuned to it than others.

However, you can improve and increase your connection to higher vibrations just like you can improve any other skill.

Regain Connection

The reason conflict arises in the world is because people have lost their fundamental connection with themselves and the world around them.

You are being bombarded with quick hit dopamine of endless scrolling, catchy news titles to bring clicks even if it requires portraying something falsely, nonstop city life, and foods that have been weaponized with sugar…

It’s all designed to disconnect you from yourself. To keep you trapped thinking you have a choice, but your choice is handed to you.

What can you do to regain your connection?

• Fasting

• Meditating

• Reading self-growth books

• Journaling

• Exercising

• Spending time in nature

• Connecting with like-minded people

• Practicing Hobbies

• New experiences

These are all things you probably already knew.

Be honest with yourself, how often do you do any of these?

These are all different ways to regain your control. Control of yourself. Your decisions. Your emotions and feelings. To center yourself. To find that inner balance and connection.

All of a sudden you feel more energetic. You’re in tune, you know what to do but you don’t know how or why you know, you just do.

The life around you becomes your library.

The things that you weren’t sure about all of a sudden become clear and you see answers to your questions all around you.

This is the potential you have within yourself.

You can access it at any given moment.

Practice

The first step is usually the hardest when it comes to starting something new, it’s also the most important.

To get good at any craft we hear the same word over and over again, practice.

What about your life?

Your life is your biggest craft. What are you practicing every single day?

Let me name a few things.

Diet. You are either practicing a healthy diet or you’re practicing eating junk (I must admit, living in Italy is hard to resist their freshly baked croissants).

However, you are practicing more of one or the other.

Feelings. You are practicing gratitude, feeling grateful, or the feeling of lack, like you never have enough.

Mindset. Maybe you were let go from work, split up in a relationship, and maybe you are blaming everyone around you instead of taking responsibility for your own actions or maybe you realize that everything happens for a reason and there is a valuable lesson to be learned from every challenging situation.

These are some of the subtle things you are practicing every single day.

Responding with anger or responding with love and compassion.

Try to scan your life and bring your attention to some of the things you are practicing.

How does that particular thing or things make you feel?

Meditation

Before I dive into what meditation has done for me thus far I need to clear a few things up.

Often people confuse meditation with a flow state or relaxation. Yes, it can be those things that you experience during meditation but, you are not meditating when you are napping, painting, journaling, working out…

To keep it simple, meditation is a practice that focuses on concentrated attention or awareness to bring the mental processes under control, therefore promoting a well-balanced state of being.

This can be done in ways such as:

• Open Monitoring (observing your thoughts but not getting attached to them. Simply recognizing and letting them pass by).

• Focusing on the breath going in and out your nostrils.

• Body Scanning (sensations in the body)

• Reciting mantras.

• Visualizations.

These are just to name a few.

Initially, the process was quite chaotic for me when I first started. My mind was like a wild horse and I was the person trying to sit on it.

With time and guidance from my teachers at that time, I was able to slowly train myself and extend my time of meditation.

This is what meditation taught me.

Over time I began to see my life more clearly. The deep-rooted conditionings from my childhood that no longer served me.

The choices I was making were not because I wanted to make them but because I was subconsciously trying to please others.

Reacting to things not from a state of awareness but rather from fear, anger, and disappointment since that is what I saw growing up.

Stabilization of emotions.

Playing professional basketball I experience a wide range of emotions that can feel like a roller coaster. Over some time, I began to find myself balanced during games.

That equilibrium.

Not too high, not too low.

Regardless of fans screaming and the coach yelling at my face for a mistake I previously made, I found myself observing all of it and responding with a calm mind instead of yelling back or showing emotions.

Don’t get me wrong, I still show emotions during the game.

However, what changed was my awareness and the ability to choose freely.

Before, I used to react to whatever the external situation was.

For example, the coach yelling at me. Instead of listening and observing, I reacted by shouting back trying to explain myself for what had happened.

This way I was wasting energy where it was completely unnecessary.

Since I had a surplus of energy, I would find moments in the game to release it after making a three or another big play.

Then, I would let it all out - anger, frustration, excitement - whatever it was.

I realized that I can control my emotions, feelings, state of mind, perception…

Ultimately, that carried into my everyday life. This was one of the first things I noticed about myself after I began practicing meditation.

I can go on explaining my other experiences but it will only be words to you. Just like I can explain the taste of an orange. I can explain it in the very most detail but it will still be just words to you, not something you experienced yourself, if you never tasted an orange.

You will only understand the taste once you try it.

As I said, all of this carried into my everyday life. I began to see the world more clearly. My environment. The people around me.

You can sense people beyond the words they are speaking. They might be saying one thing but you know it’s the other.

You see their body language and you understand that the words are not lining up with what they are saying.

You feel their vibration, energy…

It’s not just with people, it’s with everything.

You learn to listen to yourself first and from there everything else expands.

This is the true art of listening.

Take time throughout the day to observe yourself. To contemplate. Then, apply that to other people and your environment.

You will notice a lot of people are sleepwalking.

Yes, they think they are awake but really they are just going with the flow of society.

No questions asked.

You will see that the chaos of the world is created because someone is profiting from it.

You see the TRUTH!!!

It’s not always pretty and seeking the path of consciousness is not always easy…

This is where you have a choice.

Just like Neo in the Matrix.

You can take the blue pill - not do anything and simply go about your life as you wake up tomorrow to another day

OR

you can take the red pill - become aware of yourself and the world around you.

That’s ChitLife.