Greetings!
Happy Listening Month! Below are just a few thoughts about listening and links to more. Also below is a link to my second youtube video, a reading of micro-story that concerns listening.
I hope you enjoy it. Most of all, I hope you enjoy listening to your loved ones and your inner voice. Listening Month is a good time to reflect on where we are and where we want to be. None of us is perfect and we all find ourselves off-course. Listening guides us toward living life to the fullest as our truest, best possible selves, and every small step--every moment of deepened awareness--moves us in the right direction.
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LISTENING MONTH
What can you do this month to deepen your listening awareness? This is a good time to set a listening intention, to decide to watch your own listening, pay close attention to any tendency to interrupt others, or have some conversations in which you consciously wait a few seconds before responding to ensure that you've fully taken in the message. For a few additional thoughts and ideas about listening month, visit the latest Listeners Unite! blog. Also, for fun listener-wear, visit the Listeners Unite! store.
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INTERNATIONAL LISTENING ASSOCIATION
(ILA) CONVENTION
 The ILA's 30th annual convention promises to be another great event! This year's theme: "Growing Our Listening Legacy." The convention will take place this month, March 19-21, in Milwaukee, WI. I wish that I could be there! I hope my ILA friends have a wonderful, inspiring, enlightening, fun time-and I look forward to next year's convention in New Mexico! For more information about the ILA, visit Listen.org. |
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"I AND YOU"
Ah, relationships! :) What's the secret? Listen, listen listen! In honor of listening month, I have published a micro-story called "I and You" on the blog at LindaEveDiamond.com and also a video version of "I and You" on Youtube. "I and You" is a third-person story about two characters named I and You. I becomes so enamored with I's own reflection in You (the ways in which their visions and beliefs align) that I forgets You is an individual and not a mere reflection. I needs to listen! (And no, that's not a typo!) Peering into I's soul through I's eye, we see that I isn't seeing You clearly. I is in love with I, but You demands, at last, to be seen. If only I would listen, I could see. (If you enjoy the video, please feel free to post a response!) ______________________ |
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Remember... March is International Listening Month, but you can do it any time!! :D
Happy listening,
Linda
Linda Eve Diamond, Ink & Listeners Unite!
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BOOK LINKS
All books are linked to booksellers from my site, but a few are listed below (and linked to Barnes and Noble) that might be of special interest to listeners...  
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