Is Active Listening Possible When You’re Upset or Angry?

It's well recognized that the capacity to innovate is a function of active listening and is often compromised by chronic job and life stressors and energy traps.  Your ability to listen and actually hear is influenced internally, by what you are feeling and what you are thinking and externally, by stimuli that distracts you. Active listening … [Read more...]

Getting to Wellness – A Mindful Approach to Cultivating Wellbeing

You can get stressed by a million different things all of which act as your system’s information up-setters and distorters. Stress is your experience of your body’s fight, flight or freeze response to stressors, whether internal (feelings, perceptions, beliefs), or external (temperature, sound, aggression) and is cause of 80% or more of today’s … [Read more...]