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Learning Active Listening to Self

Learning to actively listen is often a personal challenge. While most efforts are focused on learning to listen to others, the more challenging behavior is often learning methods to listen and hear one's self.

Your host uses illustrations of the model: attitudes = feelings & thoughts = behavior. Many blame their behavior of being a life victim on the input from others. We each have the personal power to make individual choices that can determine our behavior. We are capable of learning new ways of feeling and thinking when we experiment and place ourselves into different situations, locations and have interactions with diverse people.

A second possibility for self-study is to use the D-I-J method: Describe, Interpret, Judge

Just having information about personal growth does not guarantee that a person will actually implement that knowledge to make healthy life decisions. Knowledge does not create change, taking action can.