If our thoughts (conversations in our mind), combined with our spoken words (words we speak aloud), followed up with action (walking our talk), co-create our experience, then what does that experience feel like? What do all those thoughts, words and actions produce in your world? Are they creating a positive and inspiring experience or are they draining and depressive? Without self-awareness, we’re easily influenced by both our inner chatter (the voices in our head) and the outer voices (people we surround ourselves with) as to how we generally feel about life. Authentic listening leads to authentic feeling and in return leads to Being an authentic person. With an authentic person, you know exactly where you stand because they’ll tell you so. This is not to be confused with a powerful egotistical person that is judgmental, racist, selfish, self-absorbed and opinionated (a person who tells you what they want to hear). Being around an authentic person you feel as though you could tell them anything about yourself without fear of it being repeated or shared with another person. The easiest way to describe this kind of person is to say you trust them. It begins by learning to trust yourself. As you develop your intuitive nature, you’ll be gifted with more awareness. It will begin to feel like you know exactly what’s going to happen next. Authentic listening is being in tune with what others are saying without immediately thinking about what you’re going to say in response. We often shut others off by thinking about what we are going to say before others are finished talking. Effective listening is a learned behavior. If we never learn how to be a good listener, then we’ll just continue to be a noisy distraction in the world. When you learn how to listen well, you’ll become more selective with whom you chose to share your time and energy with. Longtime friends will suddenly drift away and you’ll encounter new acquaintances that make you feel like you’ve known each other for many life times. You’ll begin to yearn a deeper, more meaningfully exchange of stories, ideas and experiences with others. If you’be been the type of person who never stops talking, you’ll find yourself listening more, laughing more and talking less. On the other hand, if you’ve always been the quiet type, you’ll find yourself feeling more, laughing more and talking more. This is another reason for opening a G.A.S. Station of your own, because it’s like opening a new door to the world. A world of curiosity and exploration. A world of serendipitous and mystical experiences. As you become more vulnerable to others, the real you can be expressed more authentically. When you open the door to honesty, you not only become a gift to yourself, you become a gift to be treasured by the others you authentically share yourself with.
Nature's G.A.S. Station 