Focussing on the activity, not on the object of hearing – not easy to do for me, because I`ve some hearing problems for many years. But doing the practise a sense of being alive in the world grows stronger.
Focussing on the sense of distance during hearing is linked to labeling, explanations and images, as Klaus told last Sunday. With letting go the labeling, with more focus on the activity, the sense of distance seems to fade away for moments, no difference between sound inside and outside – only hearing with a sense of wonder.
Karin
Hi Karin,
I have a sense of what you mean, my hearing isn’t the best, plus I have a constant ringing in the left ear.
But I do have a suggestion that helps when I try to focus on the ‘activity, not the object of hearing‘. Instead of the object of hearing, I attend to a ‘felt silence‘ in which the object modulates and expands or diminishes…like focusing on the background instead of the foreground, or as Eliana says in her last post…
The ‘felt silence‘ is the space, the listening field, the feeling matrix. Anyway, it seems to help me. :-)
David
Hi David.
Thank you for your comment and helpful advice. Today I practised the way you recommended to do the practise of focussing on the acitivity of hearing – starting with an relaxing Kum Nye exercise. The hearing exercise got a lightful qualitiy – the listening field was connected to a seeing field by light.
Karin