Marshall shows how to use giraffe ears – one of the most marvelous technological devices that’s ever been invented.
He also reminds us of our well practiced, habitual jackal ears – a technological device, that leads to a lot of suffering for us and others.
Time Codes
- 00:00 How to deal with people who still talk the Jackal language?
Giraffe Ears – The Dynamic World of Feelings and Needs
- 00:15 With giraffe ears you can speak Giraffe, no matter how the other person speaks
- 00:46 Story – Palestinian refugees call Marshall Rosenberg “Murderer”, because he is an American citizen. That day Marshall was able to wear giraffe ears.
- 01:37 Giraffe ears enable you to hear the human being behind any message
With giraffe ears there are no Jackal messages
With giraffe ears you only hear feelings and needs (and beautiful requests)
Jackal Ears – The Static World of Right and Wrong
- 03:25 With jackal ears you live in a scary world of demands, judgments, blame and criticism
- 03:39 When wearing jackal ears inwards, you hear that there is something wrong with you
- 04:33 Feelings of guilt, shame and depression tell you that you are wearing jackal ears inwards
- 04:46 When wearing jackal ears outwards, you tell others what is wrong with them
- 05:01 Feeling of anger tells you that you are wearing jackal ears outwards
This workshop will be about hearing messages with giraffe ears.
We do not need practice for jackal ears, we are well versed in using them.
More from this workshop – see here.
Notes
All judments are tragic expression of unfulfilled needs. With giraffe awareness we experience Jackals as an unskillful way of people to make there requests to others. This is doubly beneficial. We are free from suffering of taking messages personally, that in fact are not meant in that way. And we can enjoy people offering us gifts, giving us pointers how we might contribute to their lives – fulfilling our need for making live more wonderful.
Noticing the secondary feelings – anger, guilt, shame and depression – as instruments that help us to understand the presence of jackal thinking in us, we support our inner learning and growth – and we increase our inner freedom and empowerment.
The option – of course – is to be subject to the thoughts that create those feelings and to believe in those thoughts. We can do this for a long time and not wake up to the fact of our enslavement – ever.
When we believe in our anger, we are giving our power away.
When we believe in our guilt or shame, we are giving our power away.
When we believe in our depression, we are giving our power away.
Each jackal offers a doorway to compassion, to a wonderful feeling and need.