Listening With Your
Heart
By Deborah Ferris
Published in Around About Bayham,
In today’s high tech world there are newer and faster gadgets
and technologies always coming on stream to help us communicate with each
other. We can access everything from the
latest computers and cell phones to social networking internet sites. Yet with all these new ways to communicate,
we may find that a fundamentally “old-fashioned” way of communication with an
added facet can give us something deeper and more meaningful. What I’m referring to is listening, not just
ordinary everyday listening but listening with your heart.
Real listening involves patience and genuine caring for
yourself and others. Real listening
tells the other that you respect them.
To really listen we need to be fully present, attentive to
what the other is saying. In this deep
kind of listening we also reflect back the essence of what the speaker has told
us. This gives the other the feeling
that we really care to understand them and thus they feel heard.
Deep listening enhances our relationships with others. In fact it can be healing to be listened to
with genuine love.
We can also practice listening to ourselves with love and
compassion. Sitting quietly and
following the breath we can even open ourselves to hearing the inner wisdom
that lies deep in our hearts.
Why not explore heart-centered listening. Experiment with it. You will discover that it can make a
difference in your life and in the lives of others.
Deborah Ferris is
a Certified Hypnotherapist & Reiki Master/Teacher.
She can be reached
at (519) 688-9282.