Coming Soon: A Digital Book to Revolutionize Your Inner Life

“Whoa!  I’m way jealous. This is the book I wish I’d written. Short, piercing to the core. Each page a reminder to touch back in to Center. Damn. I hate getting these reminders my soul so loves.”

“The challenge of conveying the deep wisdom available through the practice of listening using plain, rich, inspiring language capable of emotionally touching even the most cynical heart is a considerable one. To see such a feat accomplished and offered with consummate skill, elegance and artistic integrity, is to witness true genius at work. Jasmine Lamb’s new book, A Call to Listen: How to Begin an Inner Revolution, displays exactly this virtuosity.”

—Dr. Mark Brady, author of Right Listening, A Father’s Book of Listening, and The Wisdom of Listening, and author of the popular blog, The Committed Parent

My first weeks in mediation school I felt as if my tongue had split in two and been tied in a knot (and then swollen up). Everything coming out of my mouth felt awkward and artificial. I was trying to learn new communication skills and instead the words I attempted to get out stuck like peanut butter on the roof of my mouth.

I’d been told for the next year I was going to suppress my brilliant skill of giving advice and develop some other capacities of interaction.

First. I was going to learn to listen.

I wanted  so badly to succeed, be a good student, show off my reflective listening prowess, but instead I spent most of my time extracting my foot from my mouth.

The problem was I was trying to be a good listener. Instead of listening.

Then something shifted. Grace happened. I opened up to the receptive nature of my life and cells and started listening. I discovered that listening is its own reward.

Listening is not a way to succeed, manipulate, cajole, convince, it is a way to live.

Listening is alive. Listening is the state in which we meet one another as we are.

Listening, I am sure, is the dynamic movement of the universe.

Listening is love.

In this short, beautifully designed book A Call to Listen: How to Begin an Inner Revolution ¹ , we go hand and hand into the mysterious delight of a life lived in listening.

This book will be released soon—as in—sometime in the coming months when I come out of online hiding.

The skills offered in this book will not only improve your relationship with yourself and others, it will offer you a great deal of good company.

If you want to be on the guest list for A Call to Listen,

if you want to be the first to know when it is released,

if you want all the special deals or discounts I might offer to this special list,

if you want to encourage me to release it sooner rather than later.

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Say it with Silence

John Francis stopped speaking for seventeen years so he could expand his listening skills.

To begin with he decided to stop speaking for one day.

At the end of the day he was aware he’d never really listened before so he decided to continue for another day, and then another, until seventeen years passed.

He also decided to stop traveling in motorized vehicles to communicate his conviction that motorized vehicles were harming the environment. I don’t need to tell you his story, you can hear it from him in this TED talk he gives.

What I found most moving was his discovery over many years that the environment is not just the space and material around us but is equally the space and material that we are. He says,

“We are the environment. How we treat each other is how we treat the environment.”

Watch and listen.

I’m taking a break from blogging.

At first I felt concerned about my growing need to distance from the computer and online interaction and then I relaxed and thought, how about trusting what I need.

I’m not going to stop talking for seventeen years, but I do need to spend more time listening right now.

In a few days I’ll share an introduction to my forthcoming digital book A Call to Listen: How to Start an Inner Revolution (it is beautiful and heartful and you won’t want to miss being on the mailing list to know when it is released!) and then radio silence for awhile.

Possibly I’ll send some little notes and thoughts along to my email subscribers, or not. We’ll see.

If you want to stay connected with me consider scheduling a Healing Heart Session. They make a good antidote to possible holiday stress and also make a lovely holiday present for you or someone you love.

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