Sensation (not Interpretation) (Keys of Magic 95)

===== Daily self listening session
Beginning from the point in the daily session where you would:
1 Be still and say to yourself: “I am listening.”
2 (then) Release commentary. Your interest is not interpretation, but sensation; elemental. If you do not yet have the capacity to not generate any commentary, you may use a simple replacement phrase. Say: “Hm, that’s interesting.”

And over several sessions, gradually move, unhurried, through these iterations:
3 Listen to your skin.
4 Listen to your stomach.
5 Listen to your aches and pains.
6 Play with fire (safely); play with water, air, and earth. Note sensations when you are in encounter with the four elements.
7 then Listen freeform to whatever sensations arise in your body. Be open to subtlety. The sensation of ‘nothing’ is okay. You don’t have to imagine anything.
8 After several sessions like this in your quiet place, then go out into your Village also with the intention and openness of noting sensations within your avatar as you go about the village and with encounters you have there.
9 As well, practice noting sensation as you develop in your chosen art.
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Review of listening practice 00:00
Sensation 01:29
Sensation of elements 04:03
In your Village and in your Art 05:39
Sensation without Interpretation 08:33
Sensation is elemental 09:28
Interpretation is magically useless 10:32
Untangling from commentary 12:15
Agency and subtlety 14:36
Expanded listening practice 16:43