The Art of Spiritual Awareness
Joyful Greetings from Sharon Wilson! Welcome to Day Six of Success Through Your Spirit.
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· Create your ideal successful business · Attract the people and experiences that will be part of your success · Help others become successful As we do with all of our programs, let's just take a moment and really connect with our inner guidance. I want you to picture yourself today holding in your hands the world's most highly sophisticated technological listening device. It is a small black box with a large dial, like the tuner on a radio. You're standing with someone you know. Have a real person in mind. They are talking with you about a specific subject, say, the last Presidential election.
Now, imagine that as this person speaks, they are sending out invisible signals, similar to the invisible radio waves broadcast by a radio tower. Unaided by your listening device, you can only pick up a few of the signals – the actual words spoken. However, as you turn the dial on your listening device, you begin to pick up other signals. You begin to hear that person's actual feelings. As you continue to turn the dial, you tune into the beliefs behind the spoken words and the feelings. As you turn the dial even further, you pick up the voice of their very spirit, which holds their highest intentions and hopes.
Just take a deep breath in and feel a connection to this person and to your ability to tune in and listen in such a way that you pick up more signals than you've ever been able to hear in the past. I really do believe that you're connecting at a deeper, a telepathic, an energetic level with your ability to listen deeply, and to hear beyond words, the feelings, beliefs, and voice of the spirit within people you meet.
My intention for you today is to really serve you in the highest possible way: To allow that connection--that energetic activation--to occur, so that you can listen and hear not only the words of others, but their feelings, their beliefs, and the voice of their spirit. My hope for you is that you connect with others in a way that will help them become your partners in success.
And so, feel a sense of the magnetic energy coming out from your heart, which is that place of the compassion, which is at the center of deep listening. Feel that energy coming out from your heart and reaching out, and touching people you meet at their heart level – at their soul level – at a level that will allow you to communicate and really connect more powerfully than ever before.
And in the group of all who are reading these words now, let's really feel that energy amplified among us. Take a deep breath in and feel the energy amplified, as we send this energy of compassionate, deep listening to people we will meet today.
OK, let’s get started!
Most people find it far more natural to talk than to listen.
Even if you are an introvert, and often let other's carry on the conversation, there's likely another conversation simultaneously going on inside your head. As the other person speaks, your mind may be racing on with its own thoughts, drowning out all words but its own. Often the loudest, most notable, sensation in our awareness is the sound of our own voice.
The noise tends to drown out the voice of others, but, more importantly, the noise of our own inner dialogue often drowns out the voice of our own spirit within us.
We need to reverse this trend and begin to cultivate the art of spiritual awareness. Countless books have been written on how to create a greater sense of spiritual awareness. People have made long journeys and sought out gifted teachers who have achieved some fame in developing their spiritual awareness and teaching others the secret.
The key to spiritual awareness is no dark secret. It is, essentially, to develop the art of deep listening.
In the second part of this series, we focused on listening for our feelings. Now, as you hold that focus, begin to deepen your ability to listen for the words and feelings and beliefs of others.
The good news is that you don't need a special hidden, secret method or complicated skill set. The best way to develop the skill of spiritual listening is to practice.
1. Begin by working to sharpen your physical and mental listening ability. When you are on a prospect call, step back enough to listen. Listen to the other person and practice being able to understand and repeat back what has been said, in such a way that the other person agrees she has been heard. Sharpening this skill alone will put you head and shoulders above the average person, and you will see an immediate positive response on the part of others. Even if you go no further, you will connect with more people, and you will experience a great benefit in your business and elsewhere in your life. But you're not going to stop here.
2. Now, move deeper and sharpen your ability to listen for the significance of what you are hearing. Listen for the feelings and the beliefs of the other person. Listen for their real, and often unspoken, needs. Try articulating and naming the things you are now hearing. If you're successful, you'll begin hearing the other person say things like, "I never realized this before. I never thought of it that way. I never put these things together so well as you have just now..." Even if you go no further, in the eyes of many, you are now a listening superstar. But you're not going to stop here. You're on the edge of spiritual awareness. The next step will plunge you into that realm.
3. Listen for something within yourself that may resonate with what you are hearing. You see, up to now, you have been listening with your head. You have been engaged in the art of mental and emotional awareness. Now, you are beginning to listen for the voice of your spirit, and the voice of the spirit of the other person, and for a kind of agreement between these two voices that we call a vibrational match.
When I meet with a prospective client, I am not attached to whether they do anything. I really care about hearing them and serving them.
Hear me: My focus is on listening and serving, not selling.
Because I am not attached to whether a person buys something, I can be open to truly listen and serve.
Did you ever get a new client, and you were not sure how it happened? How does that make you feel? Happy that you got the client, but with no clue how to make it happen again?
You might be thinking the reason for your success was some factor entirely beyond your control like luck, the prospect's mood that day, the fact that you happened to look like one of their old friends ... However, one thing is sure: Your "luck" probably did not increase your confidence in your ability to make this good event happen again. Your luck probably did not increase your confidence in your ability to make a living, right?
When we sharpen our spiritual awareness, we begin to pick up signals that help us learn why things are working or why they aren't working. This new information helps us adjust our belief and our behavior in more helpful directions. The result is this:
"Luck" begins to happen more often.
A good mark of the success of listening is our own learning and growth. We begin to make discoveries and move forward at a faster pace.
Exercise #1 SHARPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL AWARENESS Make a tape of your next prospect call. This can be easily done through most phone systems, or set up a simple conference call line for just a few dollars an hour.
Afterwards, listen for what the client heard. Try to get an impression of what the client might have been feeling at different points. You can learn exactly why clients hire you and why they don't – by listening.
Now, go over the tape again and listen for your own feelings. Trace the connection between the beliefs you were holding, and your feelings, and your words. What have you learned about yourself?
The more you cultivate the art of listening, the more you begin to hear another voice: The voice of your spirit. As you intentionally sharpen your listening skills, you will begin to develop the ability to hear more during your next prospect call, and during every conversation.
It's hard to learn to listen alone.
Listening, by nature, requires more than one person. Would you like to develop your listening and spiritual awareness skills faster? More than any other skills, these skills translate into more clients and higher income because they enable you to serve people better. You become a magnet to others.
There is no more powerful, rapid way to sharpen your listening skills, than by joining a small group of people dedicated to developing greater listening and spiritual awareness skills, led by a master spiritual business coach. The experience is literally worth gold to the serious business professional.
This group is the fastest track to developing master spiritual business leadership.
The group can trace the process of getting in touch with their feelings, directing their beliefs, listening, and manifesting their intentions to direct our experience. You can experience tremendous success by applying these principles.
Then, you can make these success principles significantly impact the success of others!
Let’s move beyond success to significance. One key remains that will help you achieve this higher goal: The Golden Principle of Replication. This is the theme of our final session tomorrow.
Seeing and feeling you living a life of love, joy, peace, health, and prosperity!
Love and Joy!
Sharon Wilson
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Sharon Wilson
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Sharon Wilson, Founder of Coaching From
Spirit, is a Master Coach, Certified
Spiritual Counselor and author.
After years of corporate executive
success, Sharon fed her sales, marketing
and management prowess into the
development of ongoing coaching programs
and TeleSuccess Seminars that provide
success solutions "with a spiritual bent."
Through Coaching From Spirit,
mega-entrepreneurs, inspirational speakers
and wealth coaches personally mentor and
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and uncanny solutions!
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