03 LISTENING TO OURSELVES

【倾听自己】

在我们能够很好地倾听他人之前，需要花时间倾听自己。有时候，当我们试图倾听他人时，根本无法听清他们在说什么，因为我们内心强烈的情绪和想法过于喧嚣，急切地想要引起我们的注意。我们应该能够与自己静坐相处，回归内心，倾听自己内心浮现的情绪，而不加以评判或打断。同样，我们可以倾听自己浮现的各种想法，然后让它们自然流过，而不去执着于它们。当我们花时间倾听了自己以后，就能够更好地倾听周围的人了。

[LISTENING TO OURSELVES]

Before we can listen to another person well, we need to spend time listening to ourselves. Sometimes when we attempt to listen to someone else, we can’t hear what they are saying at all because our own strong emotions and thoughts are too loud in us, crying out for our attention. We should be able to sit with ourselves, come home to ourselves, and listen to what emotions are rising up, without judging or interrupting them. We can listen to whatever thoughts come up as well, and then let them pass without holding on to them. When we’ve spent some time listening to ourselves, we can listen to those around us.