Listening to Your Soul: My Personal Practice for Remembering

Nothing I’m about to share is new. People further along the path have been teaching these things for millennia.

But I’ve found that hearing different ways people embody the practices of coming home to oneself has helped me deepen my own. I feel called to offer my perspective in the hope that it may support you in return.

Today, I want to explore something simple yet often elusive: How do we actually create the environment to hear the voice of our soul?

You might call it soul, higher self, Holy Spirit, God, the Universe, higher intelligence, intuition—whatever language resonates. The question remains: How can we set up the space to truly hear it?

This is not a sit-down-and-meditate practice.This is something I weave into everyday moments—while I’m eating, taking a shower, waking up or falling asleep, driving, walking. It’s a living practice that moves with me.

My Roadmap to Soul Listening

This is the approach I return to in my own life. It’s not the only way, but perhaps it will offer something useful for you.

1. Notice Whose Voice You’re Hearing

Am I listening to the voice of my lower self? Of society? Of my conditioned personality?

These voices often sound:

• Repetitive

• Fear-based

• Focused on separation

• Trivial

• Unfulfilling

• Caught in story-making

• About other people

  
  

Recognizing these patterns helps me pause and reorient.

2. Check: Am I Regulated?

I gently scan my body: muscle tension, heartbeat, posture, the breadth of my visual field.

If I notice contraction, I take a moment to regulate. I might:

• Breathe slowly into my heart

• Hum

• Walk barefoot in nature

  
  

(Here’s a list of more tools if you’d like to explore.)

3. Dedication

How committed am I to turning over the source of my thoughts to Something Greater?

This is key. Soul listening isn’t about forcing—it’s about making space.

4. Create Your Sacred Inner Space

This is where the practice becomes deeply personal.

For me, I visualize a crystal palace. First, I notice what, or who, is occupying space in the palace—and gently return them to its rightful place outside. Next, I place my Backbone Parent* (my wise, grounded self, residing in the left prefrontal cortex) at the entrance as a loving but firm gatekeeper. No one else is allowed in. No stray thoughts about other people or how I am in the world. No squatters in my mind.

Then, I invite my Mystic* (right prefrontal cortex) to open the highest windows in the palace, allowing fresh air—divine thought—to flow in.

Learn more about the 11 Wholeness Companions here.*

Again, this isn’t something I do only in stillness or in formal meditation. I often practice this while I’m moving through life—when I’m walking, washing dishes, eating, or simply transitioning between tasks. The space is always available.

5. Return, Gently and Often

Sometimes, someone sneaks past the door. I check: has my Backbone Parent been replaced by the rigid Brick Wall Parent* or the boundaryless Jellyfish Parent*?

If so, I return to step 2: regulate again. Often, I need to pause and simply acknowledge the fear, worry, or concern that caused the shift.

From a place of integrity, I notice when I’ve lost the thread—and I return. I commit to not betraying my orignal intention that I offered to my soul.

6. Sit and Listen

I practice sitting in the empty, open palace in a state of active listening.

I ask: What have I to remember? Not the laundry. Not my to-do list.

But: What does my soul want me to remember from beyond the noise of this world?

Visualizations to Support the Practice

Another visualization I hold is of myself as a crystal grail—clear, open, and receptive to higher thought. The cup remains empty, ready to receive. When I notice anything that clouds this receptivity, I gently open the base of the grail, letting distractions flow down through the stem into the earth, where they are absorbed and transmuted into energy that rises again, returning to support and nourish my practice.

Your visualization may be entirely different. But they all rest on the same foundations: awareness, commitment, slowing down, choice, and curiosity. this practice may be considered mindfulness plus awake listening.

Listening from Within

When we listen with curiosity from within, we find paths that were hidden. This is not the same as hearing the repeated programs of old conditioning or society’s collective voice.

It takes repetition over time—neuroplasticity—to settle the nervous system and open these channels.

But I can tell you this: magic awaits.