Any sound can serve as a cue to deepen relaxation or energize the body

Evidence

Can you imagine listening to all that is sounding as if your body were the whole earth? There might be the sounds of your own thoughts or of your body, natural sounds of birds or animals, voices, sounds of electrical appliances and machines. Some sounds might be very faint, some very intense, some continuous, and some intermittent. As you are listening globally, can you imagine that you can use any sound that you hear as a cue either to relax your body more deeply or to energize it? — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 302

Categorization

• SEED: A guided-listening exercise prompt — usable directly as a meditation/teaching script for practitioners of deep listening.
• FICTION: The body-as-earth framing is rich sensorium material for speculative fiction about expanded perception.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 302
• XREF: connects to: Repeated meditation transforms intrusive noise into a tool for entering the moment — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 507; Stress-induced shallow breathing becomes the body’s involuntary arousal signal — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 171; Tranquility can be predicted from noise level and natural-feature percentage. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 1100 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Repeated meditation transforms intrusive noise into a tool for entering the moment #corroborates (0.75) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 507