Listening In Stillness
I came to my past career in digital marketing from an unusual direction.
While many of my colleagues arrived with MBAs and marketing degrees, I arrived with a degree in Psychology and Evolutionary Anthropology & Anatomy, and an enduring fascination with people. Why they do what they do. What they need underneath what they say they need. How the invisible dynamics in a room shape everything that happens in it.
For 16 years in corporate this gave me a particular kind of super power. I was always listening for something slightly different than the people around me. What was being unsaid in the silence, but said in other ways. Through the deeper listening I heard my own inner voice guiding my direction and steering my ship. Somehow, I always knew what to do.
I've come to understand this as Intuition, one of the frequencies of The Resonance Signal. The quiet intelligence that lives beneath analysis and logic. The part of you that detects dissonance before you can name it, that registers how a conversation really felt before you've decided what to make of it. The part of you that nudges you toward certain people and away from others, toward certain decisions and away from ones that look right on paper but feel wrong somewhere deeper.
Your Intuition has been quietly transmitting all along.
The challenge is that we live in a world that rewards the loudest thinking, the most confident projections and the most decisive action. And we learn, slowly and often without realizing it, to turn the volume down on the quieter frequency.
This week I want to offer you a simple practice to start turning it back up:
Once a day, find one minute of stillness. Place your hand on your heart. Ask yourself:
What do I already know?
Sit with whatever arises. Your intuition is never wrong. You're not looking for certainty. You're practicing the art of listening to yourself and receiving your own signal again. Because Resonance is not a destination, it’s a practice of returning.
This week inside The Resonance Grove podcast, the meditation Listening In Stillness takes you deeper into this practice. It’s designed with deep moments of silence to reconnect you with your inner knowing and that part of you that signals before your mind translates it.
This is Week 2 of 4 in the Coming Home to Yourself arc. If you're joining mid-journey, Week 1 is in your archive.
What’s your perspective on stillness? And how do you know your intuition from your fears? I’d love to hear from you. I read and respond to every email I receive.
With warmth & gratitude,
JaKenna
Founder & CEO of The Gilbert Collaborative
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