5 Ways To Practice Active Listening

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ely wait until their turn.</p><p id="e709">I am referring to attentively listening to a person’s words, which means a person’s soul expressing itself. It happens when someone dares to tell you about his personal limits and struggles, and you are listening because you are interested in what he says. It’s not about his strengths, it’s about his weaknesses. He opens because he trusts you, or he just needs to say his problems aloud: speaking about what weighs on his soul, he will find an answer or feel relieved. It is storytelling: talking about the events; he gets the complete picture.</p><p id="d233">Listening to a friend or a loved one is something we do every day. Yet how can we show them, and all the other persons we meet, that we are interested in their words? How can we show we care? Here are some ideas.</p><h2 id="7f38">1- Avoid checking your messages on the telephone.</h2><p id="afa0">I think most of us are not waiting for an important call and can reply to a message a little later.</p><h2 id="683f">2-Look at them in their eyes and use your body language.</h2><p id="1f56">Don’t

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look around.</p><h2 id="1313">3-Listen with empathy.</h2><p id="6714">Don’t judge, don’t think about your next sentence, don’t listen to your inner voice commenting.</p><h2 id="48ad">4-Do not interrupt, do not change the subject.</h2><p id="578f">This is difficult for me; I am anxious and want to get to the solution as soon as possible.</p><h2 id="abfc">5-Show you believe in their words and in the openness, they are showing you.</h2><p id="495d">Even if they have different values, culture, religion, and ways of seeing life when you listen you show they are valuable to you as persons.</p><p id="cd9f">How do you feel when someone asks you? ‘What’s the matter? How are you?’ It means they see you, notice you and your face, which may be different from the other days, maybe you don’t realize it but you have a worried or tired expression.</p><p id="ca6f">Active listening is a very important skill that will help you create strong interpersonal ties and even improve your working activities: it shows people you are a caring person, someone to trust; it shows who you are.</p></article></body>

5 Ways To Practice Active Listening

One of the greatest and most precious gifts in life is to find someone who listens to you.

In fact, how do you feel when you are talking about your daily life, and you notice your interlocutor gets distracted? There might be thousands of reasons, maybe he has his own problems, or you might be a little boring or repetitive, or you give too detailed explanations, but I find it quite disappointing. When it happens to me, I stop speaking or I change the subject.

I am not talking about the act of listening to what we practice in business meetings when someone speaks in a louder voice or longer than the others, who most of the time keep silent and politely wait until their turn.

I am referring to attentively listening to a person’s words, which means a person’s soul expressing itself. It happens when someone dares to tell you about his personal limits and struggles, and you are listening because you are interested in what he says. It’s not about his strengths, it’s about his weaknesses. He opens because he trusts you, or he just needs to say his problems aloud: speaking about what weighs on his soul, he will find an answer or feel relieved. It is storytelling: talking about the events; he gets the complete picture.

Listening to a friend or a loved one is something we do every day. Yet how can we show them, and all the other persons we meet, that we are interested in their words? How can we show we care? Here are some ideas.

5-Show you believe in their words and in the openness, they are showing you.

Even if they have different values, culture, religion, and ways of seeing life when you listen you show they are valuable to you as persons.

How do you feel when someone asks you? ‘What’s the matter? How are you?’ It means they see you, notice you and your face, which may be different from the other days, maybe you don’t realize it but you have a worried or tired expression.

Active listening is a very important skill that will help you create strong interpersonal ties and even improve your working activities: it shows people you are a caring person, someone to trust; it shows who you are.