February 3, 2010 Note from Bridget Our ability to listen... Feature Article The Power of Listening

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To be truly "listened to" is a rare gift. Being listened to is when another person is totally with you, eager to empathize, leaning in towards you, totally present. Ah, now that is listening!

You may wonder why we have lost the art of listening to each other? We all have different levels of listening that are appropriate throughout the day. Over the next few ezines I would like to introduce you to the 3 levels of learning that I learned at The Coaching Training Institute, along with guidelines for when to listen or not to listen.

There are several elements that make up how we listen. One element is how we want to be perceived and how we perceive others. This impacts the quality of our listening. An example is if we want to be perceived as funny, or smart, we may make up a pre-programmed response before the person has even finished a few sentences. We listen with our own agenda.

How we perceive someone affects our ability to listen. An example of this is if we think our teenage child is a troublemaker, skipping school, not doing their homework, do you think we will be listening to them through a filter of judgment, anger, and disappointment, you bet we will? How we view someone will skew our ability to really hear what he or she are saying.

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We all have something called ear chakras, whether we believe in them or not, they are very real and exist in our spiritual bodies. Due to years of carrying harsh internal or external messages, they will often close down. If you grew up in an environment with lots of yelling, or name calling, you can guarantee your ear chakras will be clogged. If you want to hear your Divine Guidance and Angels clearly then I highly recommend cleaning them out, on a regular basis.

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In Joy,

Bridget

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The Power of Listening
by Bridget Engel

Listening is one of the most under utilized tools available to us today. We often think we are listening but if we truly checked in we would see that we are only partially present. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being fully present and 0 being tuned out, how would you rate your level of listening with the following:

• Divine guidance, intuition, inner voice
  
• Children, spouse, family, friends
  
• Boss, employers, co workers
  
• Your pets, nature On another scale of 1-10
  
• How much do you talk versus listening?

Observe yourself even for one hour as you interact with another person and see what you notice? I compare the art of listening and talking to a great game of catch. You don't want to play with someone who consistently hogs the ball and runs away with it. When the ball is thrown back and forth it creates an enjoyable game for both people.

I had a friend that would have very strong control boundaries around talking and listening and would say, "Okay you can have 10 mins to share your news and then I will share mine". This created enormous pressure and eventually I shut down and did not really want to say anything.

We all have different levels of listening throughout any specific day. Below I will introduce you to the First Level.

Level One- Our attention is on us. We listen to the words of the other person but the focus is on what it means to us. The spot light is on our own thoughts, feelings, judgments, conclusions about oneself and others. Many times this is appropriate such as when we are traveling and needing to gather information, ordering at a restaurant or buying a product. Level One informs us about ourselves and what is going on around us.

Exercise

• Notice how often you are at level one listening?
  
• Spend some time in nature and see how many different sounds you can hear.
  
• Make a conscious decision to really listen.
  

Bridget is a Certified Life Coach and Angel Therapy Practitioner certified by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D. She is passionate about teaching people how to connect to the Angelic realm and is an engaging speaker who involves her audience. Her intuition is one of her strong suits, and she uses it as a tool to inspire and teach people. Part of her overall philosophy involves the creation of a strong belief in yourself and to accept how magnificent you truly are.

I had my first Angel experience at the age of seven in New Zealand, where I was born and raised. The land of clean and green and the culture of "You can do anything, just get going." Due to my healthy and natural upbringing, this has assisted me in connecting to the Angelic realm.

I live my life from inspiration, and my passions are animals, dancing, travel, creativity, spirituality and hiking.

Bridget Engel
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