My experience is that DL—for me Is a way. [definitional]
My own beginning work in Deep Listening practices has been primarily inner work, and as such is not something that I chose to open up to the whole list about, even such a nice list as this one! My experience is that DL—for me Is a way of working. When I really listen in this way I hear differently, in the sense that merely being open to listening changes how I perceive sounds, which in turn changes how I listen, and so on in an ever expansive fashion. This is where discernment comes into play.
Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, loc. 422