Seek to Understand

Before Seeking to be Understood

MESSAGE FROM SPIRIT (e.g. God and the Archangels of Divine Light)

Now is a time to seek understanding before you speak. (seek to understand yourself)

Why is it so important for you to be heard? Because it is important to you, to be seen, to be heard, to be valued, to be loved and to be ‘right’.

Do you believe you need to prove your worthiness, your intelligence, your wisdom, your expertise, your strength, your righteousness? Then, you will continue to speak before you seek to understand what you are speaking about and to whom you are speaking. So many of you are consumed by needing others to understand you, to prove your worth, value, intelligence or perspective you have forgotten the importance of listening. If everyone is trying to say something or prove something, then, who is listening?

Is not speaking a form of communication, a means in which each of you are hoping to commune, connect and potentially understand each other? How can anyone understand one another, if no one is listening?

Are you listening?

If everyone is expecting others to listen to them, who is listening?

For listening is the effort and exploration of seeking a deep understanding of what others are saying, not just from their mouth, but, also from their heart. You have been given these gifts and tools to sense, feel and know what is being conveyed to you through facial expression, tone of voice, emotions, heart, and energy - to deeply sense and feel the presence of another. Yet, you have turned these senses off and developed a selective process of listening to what suits you - your needs and sometimes, your agenda. This is not listening. This is selective listening. Listening for what you want to hear and what you do not want to hear.

Thus, listening is a practice of seeking to understand. Please listen with compassion, for every soul wishes to be seen and heard. When you do not feel seen, heard, or understood, you will not feel loved, valued or worthy. You will then feel pain, anger and loneliness. When you carry the pain of not feeling understood, heard, loved, valued or a sense that you belong it will eventually turn into anger - this anger will eventually ripple out into the world around you and through your whole body affecting your health. You are experiencing the effects of this pain now - upon your planet and within your communities - is anyone listening?

What is preventing you from listening?

Listening does not mean you agree with what you hear - it merely conveys a desire to understand what you are hearing, thus, a desire to understand others and to let them know they are seen and they matter. You may choose after a deep practice of listening and sensing, what you feel, think or believe in response to what you just heard.

Yet, because of your ego you are concerned by what others may think of your listening. Are you worried that your listening might convey complicity or agreement, ignorance or weakness because listening often looks like silence?

Is the only voice you are listening to your own (e.g. your fear, your selfishness, your insecurity, your need to feel or be powerful, important, to belong, to be in control or to avoid feeling insignificant and irrelevant)?

Are you preparing yourself for what you will say in response to what others are sharing? Then, you are not listening, you are preparing your defense, response, explanation or justification.

Listening has the power to heal. Please seek to understand before seeking to be understood.