Lessons You Can Learn in Silence
Episode 3: Lobsang Chunzom on Listening
Could you spend three years in silence? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth Cush welcomes the venerable Lobsang Chunzom, a Buddhist nun, for a conversation about the power of listening.
“When we silence, we hear so much more.”
Show Notes:
As you go through your day, how often do you pause to listen—really listen—to the sounds of life around you, to what someone else is saying, to your own inner wisdom? It doesn’t come easily, but it can offer tremendous rewards. Some practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism spend three years, three months and three days in silent meditation. In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman (previously Woman Worriers) podcast, guest Lobsang Chunzom, a Buddhist nun, meditation teacher and founder of the Limitless Health Institute, tells host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a mid-life women’s life coach, about her experience on an extended silent retreat and what it taught her. Listen in as the two women discuss reflective meditation, spirituality, pausing and listening and how they can help you transform your relationships and your life.
Listen and learn:
The reason for a three-year silent meditation retreat
The need for nonverbal expression and processing of emotions
How meditation can help you help others
How we can put the lessons we learn in our discomfort to positive use—and how that positivity comes back to us
Why we hesitate to ask for help for ourselves—and why it’s necessary to learn to do so
The power of the pause
Why our attempts to change things in the moment are usually futile—and what we can do instead
Why you might as well have fun
How learning the rules of debate could help your relationship
Learn more:
Limitless Health Institute website
Limitless Health Institute on Facebook
Limitless Health Institute on Instagram
Guided meditations from Progression Counseling
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