Listening To Your Soul

I don’t think it’s any surprise that we’re living in what we might call liminal times; things are shaky and uncertain, and there’s a felt sense that we’re “in between” one thing and another. 

The deep instability and groundlessness in the world has a way of being mirrored in our own psyche and soma: in our muscles and cell tissue, hearts, and nervous systems; and affecting our capacity to feel and to imagine. To dream a new dream. 

Making time and space in our lives to establish an inner home – or holding environment – for the scattered pieces of soul to emerge and be metabolized is one of the essential tasks on any embodied, emotionally-grounded, somatically-sensitive path of transformation and healing.

Taking time each day to interrupt the trance of the collective, the pull into a survival-level restlessness, return into our bodies, and provide an inner temple in which we can feel, where that which has remained unlived can come into embodied reality and disclose its wisdom. 

The soul has its own language, fragrance, and ways of expressing itself that aren’t always apparent in the busyness and stress of our daily lives. It communicates to us in a language that is unique to each of us, by way of image, emotion, feeling, and synchronicity. And especially through our relationships, and what we call “the relational field,” between us and another. 

As we learn to “meet the soul halfway” as an inner partner and friend, it may surprise us to discover how close it truly is, working behind the scenes to draw us nearer to Itself, and into its world. 

In this, we might come to see even our most “ordinary” or even difficult experiences as portals to the soul, invitations into wholeness, and into a life of deep creativity, meaning, and aliveness. 

This listening is something you can learn to do, slowly, one micro moment at a time, a certain type of devotion and fidelity to your own inner guidance system, providing a doorway in transitional and liminal times to the depths of who and what you are. 

During the webinar, I speak about: 

• How times of groundlessness and uncertainty offer a unique opportunity to reconnect with the heart and the mystery of life 
• The importance of taking time each day to return to the feeling-body, and rest our nervous systems 
• Reconnecting with the Inner Friend and Ally and the unique ways it communicates with us 
• How the spiritual and healing path is ultimately an invitation into deep receptivity and the the gifts of not-knowing 

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About Matt Licata

Matt Licata, PhD is a psychotherapist, author, and teacher trained in the psychology of religion. He presents a contemporary, embodied approach to psychological healing and spiritual self-realization. He is the author of A Healing Space: Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times (Sounds True, 2020) and The Path is Everywhere: Uncovering the Jewels Hidden Within You (Wandering Yogi Press, 2017), and facilitates a yearlong online training group and community. Learn more mattlicataphd.com.