7 Steps for Emphatic Listening
1. Listen with your ears: Fully, don’t prepare what you have to say next
2. Listen with your heart: Hear what is really meant, beyond the words, through heart to heart connection
3. Listen with your mind: Listen to what they (opponent, the other) went through, where they came from, where they are going
4. Listen with your entire body: Also observing the other person’s entire body
5. Listen with prayer: Pray to get help with difficulties
6. Listen with love: After all that is what bonds us as humans
7. Listen with intention: Listen to be there for the other, understand others fully.
"The reason to forgive is for your own sake. For your own health. Because beyond that point needed for healing, if we hold on to our anger, we stop growing and our souls begin to shrivel."
