HOW CAN WE learn to listen to the silent whisperings of our heart? How does love relate to aloneness? What is intuition? How can we develop our presence, so that our presence and intuition become a source of love, joy, healing and wisdom in the contact with another person? What is the difference between the personality and the inner being, the authentic self? How can we develop the inner being through meditation? How do the inner man and woman express themselves on the outside in the form of relationships? How do the three life areas, meditation, relationships and creativity, relate to each other in creating a loving, fulfilling and creative life? What is enlightenment?

The Silent Whisperings of the Heart consists of a collection of quotes from Swami Dhyan Giten about awareness, meditation, intuition, relationships, the inner man and woman, healing, working with people from love and awareness, truth, creativity, silence, wisdom and enlightenment. Each page inspires you to see yourself and life in a new way, from a new dimension. This collection of quotes is an introduction to Giten´s perspective on life.

This excerpt from the book covers the two areas intuition and healing.

1. Intuition & Healing

Intuition means to learn to listen to the silent whisperings of our own heart.

Intuition is our inner teacher, our inner source of love, truth and wisdom in life.

Intuition basically means to develop a deeper trust in ourselves. Intuition means to develop a deeper trust in our heart and inner being.

Intuition is basically a function of our heart and the heart is the door to develop our intuition.

Intuition is a “yes” to life. Intuition means to develop a trust in life. Intuition means to learn to listen to life. When we allow ourselves to follow the silent whisperings of our heart, the fragrance of love arises.

Life is like playing “hide the key” with God. God has hidden the key and now it is up to us to find the key again. It also takes us a while to realize that the key is hidden in our own heart. Our heart is the door to allow life to guide us. Our heart is the door to saying “yes” to life. Our heart is the door to surrendering to life.

Intuition means to follow the silent whispers of the inner in a basic “yes” to life.

Life is really very simple. In each moment, we have the opportunity to choose between saying “yes” or “no”, to listen to our intuition, to listen to our true inner voice, the Existential voice within ourselves. When we say “yes”, we have contact with Existence and we receive nourishment, love, joy, support and inspiration. When we say “no”, we create a separation from life and begin to create dreams and expectations of how it should be. We begin to live in the memories of the past and in the fantasies of the future – as if any other time than here and now really could make us happy and satisfied.

Life is our teacher. Life communicates with us all the time and it is a lesson to see how life continuously has led me to the people I need to meet, to the situations I need to experience, and to the places I need to be. There has never been any real reason to worry since all small individual rivers are already on their way to the ocean, to the Whole. It is not about swimming, it is about relaxing and floating with the river in a basic trust that life already leads towards the sea of consciousness, towards the Whole.

Intuition means to know from within ourselves. Intuition is our true inner voice, our Socratic Daimonion, our inner teacher.

Intuition is about being present and taking creative decisions.

Through learning to listen to our own intuition, it develops to a constantly available inner source of love, truth and wisdom. We can close our eyes, go within, and always receive the right guidance.

Intuition is the art of the moment. Intuition is always in the moment, in the here and now.

Intuition means to develop a trust in ourselves, a trust in our own joy, intelligence and creativity, a trust in our own individuality.

The intellect gives insight, logic and understanding, the heart gives joy, acceptance, trust, intuition, compassion, friendship, playfulness, humor, creativity and a sense of oneness in love, and the inner being gives silence, a rest in ourselves, meditation and a sense of belongingness with life.

The human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves.

The human heart operates from two premises: "I Am Responsible" and "Only Love Works.

Love is what creates the freedom and relaxation to be who we really are.

The greatest gift we can give to another person is our love.

In the depth of our heart, we already know that we are perfect as we are. In the depth of our inner being, we already know that life is already perfect as it is.

Fear and hate create separation, love and joy create belongingness and wholeness.

Acceptance means to learn to love and respect ourselves as we are.

Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child.

When we stop judging others and ourselves our heart begins to open.

Acceptance means to bring everything from inside ourselves out into the light.

Everything we give love and attention to grows and develops.

Meditation is the way to develop the inner clarity, which is the basis for developing our intuition.

Intuition is a capacity of our heart. Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us, instead of being directed by our ideas, desires and expectations. Since the days of Aristotle we have been taught that logic is the only way to reach a solution. But while logic works in a step-by-step-process to reach a solution, intuition simply takes a quantum leap to a solution without any intermediate steps.

To see life from the perspective of intuition is to have vision. To see life from the perspective of intuition is to see life from the perspective of wholeness. It is to understand that life is basically one and that we are part of life. While the intellect can only see the details, intuition sees the whole. To see life from the perspective of intuition is like looking at life from the summit of the mountain, whereas seeing life only from the perspective of intellect is like looking at life from the foot of the mountain. Through learning to listen to our intuition, we learn to be in contact with the Whole.

We all have the same capacity to develop our intuition. Meditation and love are the basic nourishment for developing our intuition. People with a quality of heart are often intuitive.

Intuition is the art of the moment. Intuition is always in the moment, in the here and now. While the intellect always moves like the pendulum of a clock between the memories of the past and the fantasies of the future, intuition is always in the moment, always in the here and now. The more we develop our inner being, the inner source of love and truth, the inner quality of being here and now, the more we also have access to our intuition.

Intuition is about moving out of our own way. Intuition is about moving out of our limited sense of “I”. It means moving out of the way of our ideas about how things should be and just be with what is. It is to be with the living reality of the moment.

Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us. Our heart is the door to allowing life to support us in our psychological development process towards spiritual maturity.

Intuition is the voice of our inner being, of our authentic self. Intuition is the Existential voice within ourselves. Through listening to our intuition we are in contact with the Whole.

Intuition is a trust that if we follow our heart, if we follow our love, joy and truth, the Whole becomes enriched.

Intuition is already in contact with Existence. Intuition is already in contact with that which is larger than ourselves.

2. Healing

Within each one of us there is a healer. Healing has always been a way and a deep source of healing for me. Healing is basically our own energy, which overflows from our inner being, from the meditative quality within, from the inner silence and emptiness.

Healing is pure love in essence. Love is what creates healing. Love is the strongest force there is. The sheer presence of love is, in itself, healing. It is more the absence of love – than the presence of love – which creates problems. Healing is a quality, which we can freely share without any ownership. Healing is not something that we can claim as our own; healing is to be a medium, a channel, for the whole.

Healing is a medium through which we can develop our inner qualities of presence, love, joy, intuition, truth, silence, wisdom, creativity and inner wholeness. Healing comes originally from the silence within, where we are already in contact with the whole, with the divine. Healing is what makes us spread our inner wings of love and silence and soar high on the sky of consciousness and touch the stars. Healing is to be in service of God.

People who have a quality of heart and sensitivity are naturally healing. With some people we meet, we feel naturally uplifted and inspired. With other people we meet, we become tired and heavy. With people who can listen without judging and evaluating it is easy to find the right words to share problems and difficulties. And with other people it seems almost impossible to find the right words.

People who have a healing presence and quality can support our own inner source of love, truth and silence through their presence. These people also seem to have an intuitive sensitivity to saying the right words that lift and inspire us. These are the people whose presence can mirror the inner truth, which we already know deep within ourselves.

The human heart is a healer, which heals others and ourselves. It is the heart’s quality of love, acceptance and compassion, plus communication through words, that creates healing. A word that comes from the heart creates healing. A silent listening with a quality of presence and an accepting attitude creates space for healing to happen.

The gift of healing comes when we see the other person with love and compassion. It is the quality of heart that creates the love and the genuine caring for the other person. When our words are carried by the quality of heart, you can say almost anything to the other person and he will still be able to be open and receptive. But if our words lack the quality of heart it also becomes difficult for the other person to continue to be open and receptive. Even if a therapist is very skilful, technically, or has a clear clairvoyant ability, and still lacks the natural roots in the soil of the heart, then his words will not touch the heart of the other person.

When I began to work with people almost eighteen years ago, it was an insight for me that I really cared about the other person, and that it was this love that was communicated beyond the words to the other person. One of my course participants - who is a teacher – described this very beautifully when he said that he was impressed by my intuition and by my way of conducting therapeutic work – or, as he would rather call this ,"giving insights into love". Love is what allows us to go beyond the surface of the other person and to touch his inner being, his inner essence. Without love it is only possible to reach the personality of the other person, to reach the surface and periphery of the other person.

Meditation is the way to develop our natural healing abilities. Healing comes originally from our inner being, from the inner source of silence and wholeness. In the silence, we can let go of all our problems, frustrations, fears, anger and sorrow. Healing happens when we bring everything that we find inside ourselves out into the light. Healing is to embrace and accept everything that we find inside ourselves without judgment or evaluation. Healing happens when we discover an unconditional love and acceptance for ourselves as we are with both our light and dark sides.

A male meditator says that he made a deep insight in a course about what healing is, which has guided him much in life. He says: "I did a course and had been feeling very good during the week before the course. The first two days of the course I still felt very good. But the third day, I began to feel uncomfortable. The question why I suddenly felt uncomfortable arose in me. But instead of asking somebody else, I asked myself this question and the answer I got was: "To receive attention". Could it be so simple? I thought, and then I closed my eyes, went inside myself and gave myself attention. Through this I discovered that I could give myself healing. There were also many other things that I suddenly understood through this about the question: "What is healing?" It became clear to me that healing is to give attention and that healing and giving attention are synonymous terms."

Healing is not only a specific method, healing is also to invite another person into our own inner light, to invite another person into our presence, love, joy, acceptance, humor, understanding, playfulness, meditation and silence. Healing can also be a loving word, an understanding glance, a present touch, a silent listening, or simply joking with another person and making him or her happy. Humor is also one of the strongest healing powers for seeing our situation and ourselves in a new and creative light.

When I pursued an education in healing in the USA in 1984, I was told that I had the capacity to become a crown chakra healer, a spiritual healer, to act as a channel and catalyst for spiritual energy from the 7th chakra through the heart. At that time I had no idea what a crown chakra healer really was, and since then it has been a continuous process during the last seventeen years to deepen and develop my understanding of this. This process has resulted in a way of working I call "Synchronicity – Transmission of the Light", which uses healing and energy work from the Source on a formless level. With this method I have worked with groups of up to 80 people. It is really a way of working that goes around the ego and speaks directly to the heart. It allows a person to come into direct contact with his own inner being, with his own life source. With my intellect I still do not understand how this way of working functions. It is not a way of working which can be understood on a methodical plane. It is a way of working that relates directly to the heart, and which can only be understood through insight and experience.

One participant in Gothenburg described his experience of Synchronicity as being like a thousand suns suddenly had been lit in his own consciousness. He says: "It was like an inner explosion, an expansion of my own consciousness – and I felt only love for the other people in the room".

The greatest teacher in healing is nature itself. To be out in nature is like being surrounded and embraced by love. Trees are also very beautiful people, who have their own innate wisdom and who are already in oneness with Existence. And the sky whispers its silent message that, beyond everything, there is only one sky. A female meditator describes it like there is a basic meditative quality in nature. She says: "There is nothing in nature that questions each other’s existence like people do. Everything is allowed to exist and everything is allowed to be exactly as it is – and seasons come and go. It is not strange that people love to be out in nature and have experiences that bring them in harmony with themselves, because, in nature, there is nothing that tries to change them.. There is a quality in the air, which can be called a meditative quality."

Healing is to be in the light of our own consciousness. Healing is an inner light which exists as a natural radiance around a person. This inner light is in itself a healing force beyond words. This inner light disperses darkness, like when you light a candle in a dark room and the darkness disappears by itself. This inner light exudes a subtle influence through its mere presence. The more the light in our own consciousness is lit, the more it creates a subtle effect in the world.

© Swami Dhyan Giten, 2005

Editor's note: Excerpt from The Silent Whisperings of the Heart - The Fire of Awareness & The Fragrance of Love: A Collection of quotes from Giten

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SWAMI DHYAN GITEN was trained in modern psychology at the University of Stockholm, and in Eastern methods of awareness and meditation in the USA, Italy, Sweden and India. He has 22 years of experience in individual counseling and in teaching awareness. He works internationally with seminars, courses and longer development programs in the areas of awareness, meditation, intuition, relationships, inner man/inner woman, healing, creativity, The Sacred Yes - The Art of Spiritual Healing and Presence — Working from Within: Working with people from love and awareness. He also works as a teacher and consultant to companies and organizations seeking to raise awareness in their organizations.

Since he began to meditate when he was 15 years old, Swami Giten has studied and investigated the inner journey in order to move out of his own way, to be in the flow, and to discover the authentic inner being, the meditative quality within, the inner silence and emptiness, the capacity to surrender to life.

His three creative areas for expressing the inner song of meditation in outer form are teaching, writing and painting. His meditative art is recognized internationally and has been nominated for the international art exhibition, The Florence Biennale in Italy, which is arranged in cooperation with The United Nations. His meditative art is also represented in The World Artist Directory for Accomplished Artists.

He is author of the book Song of Meditation — About Meditation, Relationships & Spiritual Creativity (Solrosens Förlag, Swedish edition, 2001) and The Silent Whisperings of the Heart - The Fire of Awareness & The Fragrance of Love: A Collection of quotes from Giten (Giten's Varld, Swedish edition, 2004). To find out more about Swami Dhyan Giten and his work, visit his website and read also Song of Meditation - An interview with Swami Dhyan Giten about the relationship between meditation, relationships and creativity on Giten´s World - A School for the Heart on Internet: www.giten.net.