To listen means to focus solely on the one communicating to the exclusion of everything else. Including our response
I hear.
Two tiny words. It’s almost comical how difficult it can be to say them.
We often confuse hearing someone with agreeing with them. So the words become hard to say. And that’s a shame, because that’s all we really want: to be truly heard and deeply understood.
In order to truly hear the other, we must actively listen. We sometimes confuse hearing and listening, without understanding that the first is an involuntary physiological response to sound, and the second is an active choice to truly receive what the other is offering.
To listen means to focus solely on the one communicating to the exclusion of everything else. Including our response.
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