The very first sound we all hear is the double heartbeat. This allows us to feel a sense of security in the womb because our own heartbeat is echoed by the beating of the heart of our mother, she who carries us for nine moons. When, through birth, we are drawn to the Earth walk, that second heartbeat vanishes. We sense on a deep level that now there is something missing. Many go through life searching for that missing heartbeat. That missing heartbeat is found when we listen to our Earth Mother and enter the Stillness, called Tiyoweh. In that place of silence, we can hear that small, still voice within our heart, and through this we can rediscover our sense of security and belonging. The Earth Mothers heartbeat reminds us that we are never alone; that our True Mother, the Earth is always there to nurture us and to give us rest. In return, all she asks is that we stop and listen for that second heartbeat. Listening Woman, the Clan Mother of the Fifth Moon Cycle, teaches that we can learn much more from listening than we can from speaking. She teaches us that every living thing in nature speaks to us, and it is through our listening to these other life forms that we find relationship, belonging, security and wisdom

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