When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
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If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.
It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.
When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.
You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.
You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
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