Conscious Communication
My teachers at Wanderlust Hollywood have been talking about Conscious Communication this week, the brain, heart, nervous system connections to how we communicate with others and ultimately ourselves This got me thinking. Why do we often misunderstand each other? Are we not conscious or aware of the words we speak? Quite often we are not. I like to refer to this as “verbal vomit”. When a person speaks they should speak truth by using the heart - head connection. In this world we often do not speak from our hearts. Instead, our words come from our minds — our over thinking minds. Eckhart Tolle and Yogi Bhajan both spoke about the mind and conscious communication.After reading the quotes below hopefully we will all learn from them about how our minds work and how we can communicate with more love, peace and understanding. As the old saying goes, “If you can’t say anything nice, maybe you better not say anything at all.”
Yogi Bhajan reminds us of the fact that the word was the first sign of the divine on this earth. He said, “In the beginning was the Word. It doesn't say in the beginning was God. In the beginning was the Word because in the very beginning of every moment of time and space your word counts. Your whole destiny is written in the Word.”
The Bible also speaks of the word. — “John 1:1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:2. He was with God in the beginning.”
Eckhart Tolle, author of the “Power of Now”, refers to our over thinking minds. He calls it compulsive thinking. He said, “Compulsive thinking is actually an addiction. What characterizes an addiction? Quite simply this: you no longer feel that you have the choice to stop. It seems stronger than you. It also gives you a false sense of pleasure; pleasure that invariably turns into pain. You identify with thinking, which means that you derive your sense of self from the content and activity of your mind. Because you believe that you would cease to exist if you stopped thinking. As you grow up, you form a mental image of who you are based on your personal and cultural conditioning. We may call this phantom self the ‘ego’. It consists of mind activity and can only be kept going through constant thinking.”
Yogi Bhajan spoke often about Conscious Communication. He said, “Real communication is when after uttering, saying, or communicating, you stand fully one hundred percent by whatever you said. Real communication does not give you any right to change it afterwards, no matter what. Anything which is not real is a lie. It is not whether it is right or wrong, good or bad, or moral or ethical. Person A talks to person B and between A and B, the talk is real. Then A and B are bound down to put their totality in it until infinity. Communication is the art to build heavens in the future and people who do not have it do not have any future, no matter what religion or country or nation they belong to. There is a tremendous amount of stress which you cause by not communicating with yourself. Therefore, try to establish a relationship between you and yourself. When you speak unconsciously, you represent your emotions, your feelings, your neuroses, your handicaps, your shortcomings, and your insecurities. Remember, one wrong word said lives forever, on the Earth and in the heavens. There's no way you can get out of it. Neither react nor act negatively in communication. It is very dangerous. There's no solution to it. It will take away all your merits. It will leave you hollow, shallow, in pain. In every walk of life, in every aspect of life, harmonious communication can bring success out of failure. In order to achieve harmonious and conscious communication, first you have to understand the other person. Harmonious communication happens where there is oneness between the spheres of intelligence and consciousness, where hearts and heads meet.”
My prayer for you today is that you will be able to stop over-thinking and be able to speak clearly with your words. This life is short, but yogic philosophy tells us that with each breath we have the ability to begin again if we are willing. Now, that is the tricky part. Can you drop the past today to live a better tomorrow? Try to fully communicate with your heart and at ease. There is a technique below from Yogi Bhajan that can help you speak with ease. Communication: look up, look in, look forward, look around and look back.
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Pinkie Finger Technique to Carry the Day
If you do not know how to communicate something that is bothering you, and you have to go to a meeting to talk. Sit down at a table and press this finger. (The pad of the thumb presses down on the nail of the pinkie finger.) Underneath the table; nobody will ever see. Just press your little finger for about a minute. And then touch it. (The tip of the thumb touches the tip of the baby finger.) Your entire sense of communication shall come on your command. You don’t have to have an initiation, you don’t have to belong to anybody, and you will carry the day. When your ego finger will press on the mercury finger, it is just telling the horse, “Let us gallop.” It is a totally physiological situation. There’s no reason that your communication should not carry the day.
©The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan
From The Aquarian Teacher: Conscious Communication. KRI International Teacher Training in Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Level 2 Transformation Practitioner. Kundalini Research Institute. 2006. https://www.3ho.org/3ho-lifestyle/conscious-communication/what-conscious-communication
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