Listening

- [Tutor] Mindfulness is a way of listening to our lives, taking in what's happening with a receptive and kind awareness. When we purposefully bring mindfulness to listening to each other we nourish our relationships in a wonderful way. As one teacher put it, "Offering our attention "is the deepest expression of love." Whether it's with colleagues at work, our boss, our patients, our family, listening enables us to respond to others and to life circumstances from our deepest intelligence and resourcefulness. But so often, we may be physically present but we're not really listening. A minister describes giving a sermon and noticing two teenage girls in the back giggling. He announced sternly, "There are two of you here "who haven't heard a word I said," and they immediately went silent. After the service, he was saying goodbye to people at the front door and three different adults apologized for dozing off and not…