Listening

Monday, April 27, 2009
The Art Of Listening
“Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we should speak”.
Research On Listening Suggests;
A factor called “Listening comprehension” may be identified and isolated.
When improvement in listening is achieved, it may not be permanent.
There is a distinct difference between speaking rate and that of listening.
By increasing the rate of speaking by as much as 100% the listen rate does not suffer.
There is a high correlation between listening and intelligence; except in the case of unusually good readers.
One quarter of our waking life is spent in listening Elementary school children spend one half.
There types of listening;
You can improve your listening skills by being in good mental and physical health, not being preoccupied, being open minded being non defensive, minimizing interruptions.
Effective listening includes; hearing, interpreting when necessary, understanding the message and relating to it. A good listener learns to; Distinguish fact from opinion . Understand and evaluate inference and reasoning . Detect prejudices, assumptions, attitudes. Restructure vague speaking into clear meaning.
A good listener adds a new dimension to the art of communication.
Dr Carl Rogers asserts; “If I can listen to what he tells me, if I can understand how it seems to him. If I can sense the emotional flavor which it has for him , then I will be releasing potent forces of change within him”.
To make Man Great
Three things are necessary to make man great, every nation great. Conviction the powers of goodness. Absence of jealousy suspicion, and helping all who are trying to be and do good.
Progress
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much; It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
Capable of Greater Things.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
In every mistake you make, in every fall you encounter, there is a lesson of vital importance if you search if you search for it.
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Truth stands on its own evidence. It does not require any other testimony to prove it true, it is self-effulgent.
Selfless Heart
Ye who love and serve without thought of self are blessed.
Ye who give your all and seek no gain.
Are blessed again and evermore.
For what shrine more holy than the selfless heart?
What offering richer than the gift that asketh no return.


I drive joy
There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 5 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the ten minutes joy that I derive from? I am not robbing you of your joy; why should you rob me of mine. He asked. The critics were silenced. –Baba- Chinna Katha

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