Learnings on Listening

By: Duke Rohe  drohe@att.net

Overlay these thoughts on a life and discover more. I sure did.

1. Listening is one of the best compliments we can pay each other.

Listening makes a profound statement that the one speaking has so much importance, their words take precedence over your time.

2. Listening requires a heart ready to receive and respond.

The order here is key.

3. To truly listen, opinions and points to be made must be set a side. Listening is void of personal agenda.

It is making a secure statement that I am centered enough in my own beliefs, that you can speak without fear of my reprisal or withdrawal or interruption.

4. Listening is stopping your internal talk, and leaving room for the possibility of change: for new input, for new considerations.

Allowing new thought, new possibilities to evolve.

5. Listening looks well behind the spoken words in order to pick up what the heart is meaning.

Listening often leads to a word aptly spoken to comfort, to encourage or to show compassion.

6. Listening is allowing thought to be made manifest, excavating those deep feelings so they can be known and shared and worked with.

Listening can be a gift of patience extended to the speaker, for some may need to speak in order to work through a difficult thing.

7. Listening had better be used for good.

Listening is such a pleasure when each truly care for each other, when the motives are to exchange, or care or grow.