Cosmic Listening: What Are the Quiet Whispers of Your Soul?

(Includes a mini-meditation.)

Hi friend,

This article can help you connect more deeply with your soul through

• a simple practice, and

• a guided meditation.

Today, I’d love to talk about your soul. Or, more specifically, how you can get advice from your soul.

If you are wondering what the soul is, here’s how I described it:

If we think of our personality as a drop of water, then the soul is the entire ocean.

For if there’s one skill that could help you uplevel your life, it’s communication with one of the deepest/highest parts of you—your soul. We could call this the art of cosmic listening.

The Art of Cosmic Listening

At a certain developmental point, you can tell if you are living in alignment with your soul or not—if your life gets easier over time, you are.

(Maybe. Perhaps my shaman—who just went through A LOT—would disagree?)

Life getting easier is not to say that there won’t be any shake-ups if you listen to your soul. And perhaps “easier” isn’t even the best word to describe what I refer to. Perhaps it’s more about being on path.

(Maybe my shaman could agree with that framing?)

Being on path means knowing that the overall trajectory of your life is going into the direction your soul wants it to go into.

Being on path = sensing that you are going with the flow, not against it. 

Aligning yourself with your soul’s intent requires deep listening to your soul. This will also increase your understanding of the journey that you are on.

To practice this form of deep listening, you must forget all that you have learned about communication. (For now. When it comes to communicating with your soul. Obviously, don’t just stop greeting everyone you meet, or start speaking in tongues to them. Save that for the people who really deserve it.)

A fresh perspective on communication

We are often taught to think of communication as a one-way street, like an arrow going from the speaker, to the listener:

Communication as a one-way street

Speaker ➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️ Listener

In truth, communication is all about clarity.

It’s about being clear on what you want to say (if you are the speaker), and what the listener wants to hear.

Communication as clarity

Speaker 💭 🔎 💡                    ↔️                   💡 🔍 💭 Listener

Why does the second part matter if you are talking to someone?

Because the desires of the listeners impact the extent to which they can hear what you are actually saying. Someone who wants to hear something specific (say, you telling them that “X is true”) will have a much harder time hearing your statement that “X is false.”

You have probably experienced this yourself. Maybe you have tried to give a nice compliment (“well done!”) to someone extremely self-conscious about their skills—only to realize that the other person couldn’t receive your compliment.

In that case, you were perfectly clear on what you wanted to say, but perhaps not so clear on what the listener wanted to hear.

Why deep listening matters

Sometimes, there is a tendency to forget the role that the listener plays in clear communication.

This is even more true when communication with your soul is concerned. When it comes to this form of communication, your soul is generally the “speaker” and your personality (or ego, as it’s sometimes called) is the “listener.”

Let us do an exercise with this:

The Art of Listening to Your Soul

Imagine you are in a tower of light. This tower extends all the way into the heavens, allowing you clear communication with an aspect of yourself that is residing at a higher vantage point. Let’s call this aspect your soul.

Let’s imagine your soul has discovered the secret to happiness. It has entrusted you with this information, and asked you to pass it on to a person who’s standing at the base of this tower.

So, you walk down the steps, looking forward to passing on this useful knowledge.

In the first scenario, the person standing at the base is busy on their phone. They are preoccupied with something that is happening in the news (“What’s going on with Kate???”), and only half-listening to the message you are giving.

How much benefit are they receiving from the message you are giving them? 70%? 50%? 20%? 0%?

In the second situation, the person is paying close attention to what you are saying. They are curious about your message, and open to hearing what you have to say.

How much benefit is this person getting from the information you are sharing with them? 70%? 80%? 90%? 100%? 

When it comes to soul communication, you want to be the person in the second scenario.

As the speaker, your soul might express itself to you very clearly (in fact, it always does) and yet, if you don’t want to hear what it has to say, you won’t… at least not without great resistance and pain.

(I’m speaking from personal experience here. Contact me for details. 😅)

If your ego doesn’t want to hear your soul’s guidance—whether your soul tells you to move, quit a job, get a job, get a divorce, or whatever else it is—you won’t hear it.

The soul is the quiet voice.

The personality, on the other hand, is often quite loud.

That’s why it’s extra-important to be attentive to what your soul is trying to tell you. More than anything else, this requires being in a receptive state.

How to Get Into a More Receptive State

Receptivity occurs when there’s no specific agenda, beyond just receiving the message.

In the exercise above, the person in the first scenario has an agenda—figuring out what’s going on in the news (I get it, I’ve been going down that particular rabbit hole, too). This agenda prevents them from clearly receiving the message that is meant for them.

(Also, reading the news doesn’t tend to make one’s life better. But that’s a separate article.)

The person in the second scenario is open and has no specific agenda.

If you would like to be more open to those quiet whispers from your soul, meditation is a great way of getting there!

Perhaps you already have your favorite meditation. In that case, you can use it to get you into a receptive state.

I’m also including a meditation I recorded a few years ago. You can use it to center yourself in about 5 minutes.

Soul-filled practice

If you like, here’s a practice for you to try:

Find a quiet, comfortable, and safe space where you won’t be disturbed. Then, listen to this meditation, set an intention to connect with your soul, and sit for a few minutes in silence. Afterward, you might like to take a few moments to jot down any thoughts that are coming up for you.

While you can do this practice anytime, it might be particularly effective right after waking up, or just before going to bed. And, the more you connect with your soul, the clearer your soul’s guidance might get.

What are the quiet whispers of your soul? If you like, leave a comment (this is only visible to me and other paid subscribers).

Like the journey of your soul, this exploration will continue. :)

Warmly,
Louise