Quality
Our mind is a constant feed of thoughts, some good and some bad, a set of cognitive faculties including consciousness, perception, thinking, judgement, language and memory.
What are these thoughts? They are the ones that bring us sorrow, fill us with doubt, fill us with fear, lower our self-esteem, destroy relationships, instill us with negativity, cause us frustration, anger us, sway us from the path, make us forget our highest truths and disconnect us from the world and people around us.
Silk tell us accept everything and transform it. So it applied to the mind also.
Personal transformation requires, “personal intelligence” ⎯ which can be taught and learned like any other type of intelligence. Several attributes of this type of intelligence are:
1. Being quiet inside and really listening as a way of being aware of our own feelings as well as the feelings of others.
2. Being aware of habitual negative patterns of thought, behavior and communication and then making more positive choices as a way of better serving ourselves and others.
3. Being accountable and responsible for our experience at each moment rather than being a victim and blaming others.
These keys to developing “personal intelligence” are experienced while “masterfully” listening to another person. The masterful listener is quiet inside (no thoughts), totally receptive and connects with their heart to the person who is speaking.
Yes, words and information are important components of communication, but what is most essential is the depth of connection that people are capable of. We need to understand that we are not “masterfully” listening when another person is speaking and at the same time we are having our own internal dialogue. This dialogue creates distance from world and people around us.
Masterful listening provides a direct experience of inner silence, experientially teaches caring through connectedness, promotes taking personal responsibility for the connection we have with others and also enhances the ability to reflect rather than react habitually as a way of making more life supportive choices.
So quality of the Silk: Masterful Listening.
Listening is embodying enough awareness to stop the perpetuation of all the thoughts that do us no good.
