„NVC is an awareness discipline masquerading as a communication process.” Kit Miller
NVC is a powerful awareness practice that helps not only to shed light on ways of interacting in and with life but in a much more intimate way with the Divine itself. On a practical level, NVC helps to communicate in a more compassionate way with oneself and another.
„ … Spirituality is at the base of Nonviolent Communication… it’s more than a communication process … It’s really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life …“ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Recognizing, identifying and honoring feelings and universal human needs is an outer expression and skill of an inner awareness of “We are One”. Yet, this is only a starting point.
The Dyad Meditation Practice
The Dyad Meditation I learned from Robert Gonzales is one practice that helps me tremendously to enhance my inherent inner qualities of being present, non-judgmental, open-hearted and still-mined.
The Dyad (meaning two) is a powerful meditation practice done in pairs. Different from silent meditation practiced alone, the Dyad Meditation is done face-to-face across from each other either in- person or online in front of the computer.
Through the presence of the two people engaged a sacred and safe space is created in which communion (the deeper meaning of communication) with “Divine Energy” can be experienced. While an inquiry question is asked by one partner, the wisdom that arises is shared by the other.
“Opening to compassion, what arises?” could be such an inquiry being asked by person A who then listens and witnesses silently, holding space without interacting. Person B, receiving the question as an inner inquiry, ponders and connects with it inwardly and shares what arises. The sharing is from the heart rather then from the mind, a talking from an inner experience rather than about it.
You might want to take a moment and letting the words “opening to compassion” enter your being, holding them in your consciousness and observe what happens inside – in your body, in your emotions, in your awareness? And then listen to the words that arise, sensing into the energy they carry and convey. How naturally they come as you feel connected inside!
Being in a dyad is opening the doors to a honest inner self-reflection and a curious self-exploration, cultivating thereby the art of contemplation. It’s actually the power of authenticity that’s awakening here and thus, I am deeply connected to the essence of NVC. „…my name for God is “Beloved Divine Energy” … I know Beloved Divine Energy by connecting with human beings in a certain way. I not only see Divine Energy, I taste Divine Energy, I feel Divine Energy, and I am Divine Energy. I’m connected with Beloved Divine Energy when I connect with human beings in this certain way. Then God is very alive for me. …“ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Published in: Empathische Zeit, March 2019