Listening Skill

I was told that God gave us two ears and on mouth because He wants us to listen more than we talk. Somehow, I estimated that about 90% of the human race rather talk than listen. Listening is hard, it is hard for me too!

Some people practise "selective listening" ; they only listen to what they want to hear and this is a very common cause for communication breakdown, which further create misunderstanding and things being done the wrong way. Mistakes are then made........

One simple example was when we were discussing about our ailing mother ..... our 2nd elder sister was trying to explain to us about clear, murky or foamy urine; how we must observe our mother's urine in order to know about her physical health. But unfortunately, our youngest sister interjected cheekily that if you drink the household cleanser your urine will definitely be foamy!!

Everyone laughed!! The discussion was interupted. None of us were any wiser about how to recognise unhealthy urine.

Anyway, one can change the situation by just consciously pausing to at least listen until the speaker is finished with his "yakerty yak" before interupting with a question or to crack a joke!

Learn to listen consciously which is actually very simple if you control your brain from processing for that moment......... give it a try!!!