i like to think i'm a good listener. i'm thinking of this from a blog that is written by two people that i LOVE to read about that is here. what i think is difficult when you do get the art of listening, is when you realize that YOU are not heard many times. it is frustrating when you say something over and over again and someone just doesn't "get it". but then, that is when you learn to let go. what they do is their path and if you are a believer of karma, will eventually play out in their lives in some way, some how. Karma doesn't have to do with "if i do this bad thing, something bad will happen to me". it has to do with how you live life...every little thing. if you live life for yourself and with good intent, you will notice an abundance coming back at you...
by nature and career choice of being a counselor, i really do love it when people ask my opinion about something that i have listened to for months. there is nothing, nothing more redeeming than having someone feel that they were really heard by them listening and hearing that you "heard" them.
now that i think about it, this does kind of correlate to the blog i wrote before about active listening...it's the signs from our loved ones that can inform us as to their moods and thoughts. to know that they were heard without really "saying" anything....now that is love
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i like to think i'm a good listener. i'm thinking of this from a blog that is written by two people that i LOVE to read about that is here. what i think is difficult when you do get the art of listening, is when you realize that YOU are not heard many times. it is frustrating when you say something over and over again and someone just doesn't "get it". but then, that is when you learn to let go. what they do is their path and if you are a believer of karma, will eventually play out in their lives in some way, some how. Karma doesn't have to do with "if i do this bad thing, something bad will happen to me". it has to do with how you live life...every little thing. if you live life for yourself and with good intent, you will notice an abundance coming back at you...
by nature and career choice of being a counselor, i really do love it when people ask my opinion about something that i have listened to for months. there is nothing, nothing more redeeming than having someone feel that they were really heard by them listening and hearing that you "heard" them.
now that i think about it, this does kind of correlate to the blog i wrote before about active listening...it's the signs from our loved ones that can inform us as to their moods and thoughts. to know that they were heard without really "saying" anything....now that is love
by nature and career choice of being a counselor, i really do love it when people ask my opinion about something that i have listened to for months. there is nothing, nothing more redeeming than having someone feel that they were really heard by them listening and hearing that you "heard" them.
now that i think about it, this does kind of correlate to the blog i wrote before about active listening...it's the signs from our loved ones that can inform us as to their moods and thoughts. to know that they were heard without really "saying" anything....now that is love
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You're right. It's just that once you've been designated as a person's sounding board doesn't it get frustrating listening to them and watching them make the same bad decisions over and over again whilst blaming everyone else around instead of asking of themselves what they should be doing to change things.....can you tell I have someone like that in my own life??? :O) I tried to read your link -- it kind of put me in my place.
I love that picture of your Grandmother down there by the way. It's beautiful. -
January 16, 2009 at 6:35 AM
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You're right. It's just that once you've been designated as a person's sounding board doesn't it get frustrating listening to them and watching them make the same bad decisions over and over again whilst blaming everyone else around instead of asking of themselves what they should be doing to change things.....can you tell I have someone like that in my own life??? :O) I tried to read your link -- it kind of put me in my place.
I love that picture of your Grandmother down there by the way. It's beautiful.
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