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Excerpts from the book ‘Writing down your Soul’

WHAT IS THE ART OF LISTENING?

The art of deep listening is a healing approach to help bring greater peace to our relationships and to ourselves. Deep listening skills will help in any conflict situation and fosters reconciliation and the prevention of violence. Our objectives in sharing these listening skills are to deepen our understanding of the perspectives and suffering of people on all sides of a disagreement or conflict, and to build bridges between them.

True deep listening requires suspending our judgments and listening from an open heart fostering empathy and compassion. Through the skills of reflective listening and non-adversarial questioning the listener generates healing in the heart of the speaker. Once this healing has begun, the listener builds a bridge by humanizing the other. When both sides understand the suffering of the other, reconciliation can begin.

These skills are very simple to learn. They require letting go of habitual patterns of communication that generate feelings of separation and fear. These skills can be learned by young and old alike, and require a willingness to move towards peace. The practice of these skills can become part of one's daily practice giving the gift of listening to others and building a more peaceful and healthy world.

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