{"id":198,"date":"2012-02-11T23:08:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T04:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sudlatnid.com\/apps\/wp\/?p=29"},"modified":"2012-02-11T23:08:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T04:08:35","slug":"peaceful-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Peaceful Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">To be a peaceful listener:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">1. Be peaceful within, calming the mind in order to listen deeply.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">2. Listen with your heart by keeping an open posture (stance), a receptive (open) and calm expression, and a kind, non-judgmental attitude.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">3. Listen with your full attention.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">4. Only if the person finds it difficult to speak, be curious, encouraging them by making gentle, open-ended enquiries.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"> <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">5. Be aware that interruptions (making comments, noises or facial expressions) are not necessary; sometimes they can influence or distract the person from expressing their feelings or telling their story in their own way.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;\">Always be a good listner in life. Sometimes <strong>silence<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">hath <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">more<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">eloquence<\/span> <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">than<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">speech \/ arguments!<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be a peaceful listener: 1. Be peaceful within, calming the mind in order to listen deeply. 2. Listen with your heart by keeping an open posture (stance), a receptive (open) and calm expression, and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=198\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}