Communication is not easy. Whether I’m listening, reading, looking… all my interactions are colored by my perspective that’s shaped by my present and past. Sometimes my simplest, most straight-forward conversations are with my dear doggie.
Who do you interact with most easily? Blogger/writer Bryan Wagner presents workshops on Zen, Tao, and Shamanism. Here’s his take on relationships…
The Tao of Relationship” by Bryan Wagner
Communion is creating and embracing an emotional, spiritual, sharing of each other.
We can enter a state of communion if we are present and each of us has the desire, openness, and willingness to remain so.
We can also use that willingness of communication to build a more intimate exchange that leaves traces of each participant within the other. That is the act of communion. Communion is not just language and sharing. Communion is a process further than language, it is the art of complete communication in the moment. Genuine communion happens when things move between those in relationship that is grounded in the awareness of the moment.
I believe that the sharing of emotional content is important to the state of being in communion. That means to express emotional, non-verbal content, and then allow the receiver to process it in whatever form that action takes.
Communion happens inter-species because spoken language is only a very small part of communion. Some of my happiest moments are in communion with animals. I think in part because they are aware and painfully honest in how they respond. Being with animals has the effect of clearing the detritus and fog from my thinking and reference frame on life. I engage in the state of love so readily with animals!
I honor and value those that I commune with and actively seek out building those relationships that offer that place of intimacy. I encourage people to embrace the idea of communing with others and seek those relationships out in their own lives.
Today I will spend some time communing with Spike and P’nut and a horse named Anastasia. I can’t think of a better way to share life. – Bryan Wagner
Who do you interact with most easily?
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I like this post. For me the ones that I communicate the best with are the ones I spend the most time with, my puppies. That is ok, those are my favorite people to be with any way. 😃
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Sounds like you have your priorities set wonderfully 🙂
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Thank you for sharing!!.. who do I interact with easily?.. anyone with an open mind and heart and are willing to listen and share… 🙂
“Life gives us brief moments with another, but sometimes in those brief moments we get memories that last a lifetime, So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.” (Author Unknown).
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wisely said, Dutch 🙂
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Great interesting post Bryan!! I am talkative and I always talk with my husband, children, close relatives and friends and my pet cats !!! 😊
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Glad you liked it 🙂
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Again a very interesting guest post, da-AL, great thought provoking words. For me communicating and communion do not depend on being of the same mind or opinion, but on a basic trust and goodwill. Feeling comfortable with people without words, is not easy, as many people feel awkward being with somebody without talking. In this way, just feeling good in each other’s energy, I commune best with my husband, my best friend, most cats and some dogs … oh, and some birds, I seem to attract parrots and cockatoos.
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Ooooh, Birgit – you’ve brought up something I thoroughly agree with — trust & goodwill – yes! – they are everything 🙂
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Very inspiring post, da-AL and Bryan was too good. I mostly commune with my daughter, son, hubby and few of my school friends who we have kept in touch with after years.
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Glad you enjoyed Bryan’s wonderful post, Kamal 🙂
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