Actively Listening

In this episode, Sarah and Jez look again at listening and discuss what "actively listening" is and how, when we are focused on the person talking to us, we help them to feel heard, seen and appreciated. 

They explore the importance of allowing people to express their opinion, even if we don't agree with them, and also of expressing how they are feeling, so that they can process information and come to the answers they are looking for themselves. 

They also discuss listening to ourselves and how we need to allow ourselves to be silent and then feel into whether something is correct for us or not. We live such busy lives still and there are lots of distractions, so when you allow yourself to be quiet and let go of the distractions you give yourself space to process and allow the information/answers you are looking for to easily come to you. 

They also remind us of the importance of being open to answers coming to us in different ways and not always at the time when we allow ourselves to be quiet and in the moment. 

They suggest that actively listening is a skill that we can all develop and that it comes from being in the heart so that we are listening from the heart, which then allows us to respond rather than react.