Therefore, there’s no need for many words because we hear and listen - body and being.
In his book, Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein coined the word “grok.” It’s pronounced GRAHK, and it means to understand something so well that you fully absorb it. One simple way to understand listening is to ask yourself, "what do I want from the other person when I want to be understood?" What we want most is to be appreciated – not just heard - and to feel like the other person gets us. It's no longer just about sound but about the thoughts, feelings, point of view, expectations, memories, sensations, beliefs - the whole of the other person - or at least as much of the whole as is available at the moment. Listening requires that we become open to the meaning of the other person's words, that we - in a very real way - enter into the experience those words are meant to convey. We nod, smile, perhaps even respond, but are we really listening? Hardly.
Unfortunately, we don't always listen when someone else is speaking to us, or we only listen until we want to. I (Jim ) listened to the noisy rumble, understood what it was, and then paid no more attention to the noise. For example, a truck just rolled by on the road in front of our house. Listening involves taking hearing one step further as we try to pay attention and find meaning in what we hear.
Our sense of hearing becomes activated when our eardrums pick up the sound waves that enter the atmosphere. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Whatsapp Email Page Print Page
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