The art of listening 3 ways

I listened to a conversation that took place between Liz Scott and Dicken Bettinger last week about the art of listening deeply and it was truly insightful. Dicken spoke about the way most of us who have been trained in the ‘listening arts’ being something that actually ignores the other person most of the time as we listen for ‘cues’ or for what we’re going to say. And it reminded me of the deep listening I was introduced to when I trained to become a psychospiritual counsellor and it involves listening heart to heart for the message your co-conversationalist is having beyond the words. When we listen beyond the words, we hear the intent and we aren’t making assumptions about what someone else means – which is always the risk when we use language. After all, just because I use the same words you do, doesn’t mean how I understand them is the same. Afterwards, it got me thinking about the deep listening we can do is other ways too and I realised there were 3 types of deep listening that could have profound impacts on our lives and the way we live them. The 1st is listening to the words we use. And for this I want to share a little story that really brought this home to me. I was talking to my dogs, Pip and Belle, as I often do; and they have this look they give you when they think you’re going to be a pushover for a treat. It’s the sort of puppy ‘you just have to love me’ eyes all cocked on one side. And I...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Happiness listening Source Type: news