ABSTRACT
We live in a noisy world. For a quick reminder of your capacity to selectively listen, close your eyes and focus on the sounds that surround you at this moment. Alter your perception by listening intentionally to sounds produced by living things and sounds that are created via electricity; sounds that are musical and sounds that are irritating; sounds that are within you, and sounds that are external.2 Many of us listen in the manner in which we readselectively skimming information from an immense field of choices. But if we habitually avoid conscious listening experiences, we risk losing the chance to encounter the present, to connect deeply with ourselves and others, to hear the message of the sound.
