The symbols
The definition and meaning of symbols – what we call symbolic language – is one of the cornerstones of understanding how human consciousness works. This language is revealed essentially through dreams, which we patiently learn to decode, in order to understand the messages delivered to us to guide us in our projects, our choices, our decisions, our actions, our words...
The UCM Teaching and Research Center has published the Source Code Dictionary for this purpose, a fascinating, essential, fundamental reference, thanks to which it becomes possible to learn and understand, autonomously, the signals of our unconscious, the keys to our memories...
Thus, it becomes “easy” – more and more with time – to shed light on our dark areas, our invisible, the buried regions within us which are only discovered if we truly decide to walk towards them.
But in the deep desire to know oneself spiritually there is sometimes hidden a widespread tendency to “just see the invisible”, that is to say, to be interested only in what is happening in the inner world, with the logical consequence of moving away from the concrete presence of everyday life, of becoming tired of the surrounding reality, or even of rejecting it. We fly away. We're going. Finally, we get lost. Because it is possible to get lost in the abstract... Because we only listen to ourselves. Sometimes we are only interested in ourselves and our “evolution”. And we can forget the others.
Listening
One of the explanations for this lies in the fact that we have lost listening. Attentive listening at every moment of our lives. Conscious listening. Just as there is symbolic language, there is also symbolic listening, alive in each interaction, each exchange, each gesture. Every silence itself...
Here is a particularly striking example, taken from the testimony of a teacher: during a class assembly, a student suddenly complained of marked discomfort felt during a lesson on health.
– Sir, I don’t want to go to this class anymore, it disgusts me, and the lady doesn’t understand anything, she doesn’t listen to me. Everything disgusts me, it makes me want to vomit!
Strong words, raw, almost brutal language; a tense, tense, contemptuous, grimacing face…
– What did you talk about, José?
– That was sex education, that disgusting thing, the male device. It disgusts me !
When we then learn that José does not eat at the same table as his father, to the point of depriving himself of meals, that they do not speak to each other, that he does not receive pocket money, that he is one of many children born to several mothers, we begin to understand why the male reproductive system disgusts him and why he no longer wants to attend sex education classes.
In this first stage of supporting a young person in distress, struggling with life, symbolic listening is of paramount importance. For now, it’s about detecting the memories at play, finding the roots of the discomfort, understanding from the heart what type of destiny has been activated…
We certainly have a particularly evocative example here, almost “obvious”, and yet… If we think carefully, with honesty, about our day yesterday, about our past week, about all of our days – are we really at listening?
They are everywhere around us
There is no need to analyze a case of abuse to find symbols; they are everywhere... Like images that help us understand what others experience in their inner world:
- “Ah, winter has started, the weather is really bad…”
- “I hurt my back yesterday, but hey, you know I have to continue to take care of everything here, otherwise nothing will move forward…”
- " My phone is broken ; I did not see your message ! »
- “All these wars in the world; It’s going bad…”
But it can also be positive, of course:
- “I am delighted with my last music lesson with my friends! »
- “How nice of you to give me these beautiful flowers. »
- “I slept really well last night…”
When we practice symbolic listening, it’s as if we open our eyes to a new world. Everything takes on a meaning that we perhaps never suspected. And thanks to their friend the law of resonance, they form a top-level guidance duo capable of teaching us as much about others as about ourselves.
This is symbolic listening: hearing that behind disgust, there is suffering... that behind the winter cold, there can be the beginnings of depression... behind the flowers, there are feelings which are not perhaps never said, or received…
And you, are you listening to life? 🙂
