Hearing Steers Your Mind

Keywords

Headphones all day, nervous, tuned out, misunderstand, awkward, earworm

Earworms

When hearing steers your mind, you may be sensitive to particular sounds or vocal tones. You easily get songs stuck in your mind and can remember particular conversations, speeches, or music even from hearing it once. 

Tuned In/Tuned Out

In conversations, you may find background noise, especially nearby conversations, distracting or you may be capable of tuning it out to focus on the person speaking. You either sleep through any ruckus or wake at the slightest noise.

Sonic Sanctuary

Music is vital to you. It is your sanctuary. The right piece helps you feel just how you want. Your headphones may be a necessary accessory when you leave the house or you may feel more secure being able to hear everything around you without obstruction.

Misheard and Misunderstood

You filter what others say or how they say it through your subconscious beliefs, which can lead to misunderstandings. You replay past conversations and arguments over and over in your mind. You worry about what others say about you. Silence in conversation feels awkward. You may speak loudly or quickly out of fear of not being heard. You may speak softly or stay silent to prevent saying the wrong thing.

Sound Soother Meditation

A practice to soothe the sense of hearing is to listen to nature with focused attention. Being outside in a natural environment is ideal but recordings of nature sounds work too. Spend a few minutes tuning into the rhythm and harmony to clear your head. Take note of how this practice affects your emotions.

Why Understanding Your Senses Is Valuable

As part of the animal self, the senses are driven by pleasure and pain, appetite and distaste, craving and revulsion. They move toward what they desire and away from what they dislike.

One sense may dominate or a few may conspire to rule your mind.  This can lead to feelings that your life is out of your control and your senses drag you hither and fro.  May you numbly aimlessly wander through your day as the senses seek to satisfy their appetites.  Anxiety, depression, hopelessness, restlessness, insecurity, and sensitivity are symptoms of your senses steering your mind.

The results of this quiz can help you improve your relationship with your senses.  Like a horse-whisperer subtly communicates with a horse to steer them, you can learn to guide your senses through self-empathy.  As your senses relax and trust your conscious guidance, they operate as a powerful team that you rein in the direction of your choosing.