Rumination Nation: Silence, NLP and What We Don't Say

This morning I am contemplating Silence. In the Gene Keys, Silence is the Siddhi of Gene Key 27. I had created a Gene Key Journey Experience for this if you are interested here: https://youtu.be/xN4zHbecclc

I was reading yesterday evening in the Anam Cara by John O' Donohue and on page 67 he says, "Poetry is the language of silence. If you look at a page of prose, it is crowded with words. If you look at a page of poetry, the slim word shapes are couched in the empty whiteness of the page. The page is a place of silence where the contour of the word is edged and the expression is heightened in an intimate way. It is interesting to look at the language that you use to see if you can hear a stillness or silence."

It is one aspect of NLP to listen for what is NOT said. It is true that sometimes people reveal more clearly what they mean by what they don't say, than what they do say. If you listen to the words, you hear the desire of who someone wants to be- their projection of self and the part of themselves that they are willing to share with you. If you listen to their silence, they reveal who they deeply are. Try this technique the next time you are working with deep listening to others.

Today's thoughts are short and rightly so as the subject is silence. I am mostly sitting today in it and looking at the pauses, the spaces between and voices that remain unspoken.

One more quote that stood out to me from my reading in Anam Cara,

"A friend of mine who loves lace often says that it is the holes in the lace that renders it beautiful. Our experience has this lace structure."

Warmly,

Jennifer Ferrante, CHt.

Ferrante Family Wellness