"The foundation of healthy communication starts with listening to the other person.”
The Benefits of Being A Listener
Being able to truly listen is one of the most demanding and challenging subjects in the world. Because usually people seem to listen to the other person, but in reality they think what to say when it is their turn, how to draw attention to themselves, or that whatever they say can be right. However, this is not really listening. And when you don't really listen, you can't communicate. Although it seems like there is only communication, the seeds of miscommunication have already been planted.
Serving A Social World
Communication is the “sharing of meaning”. Being able to share meaning starts with understanding, understanding starts with listening, and listening starts with focusing on the other person. When you really focus on what the other person is saying, you open the doors to very different worlds, understandings, lives and beliefs other than yourself. When you begin to understand them, there is no such thing as the "other" anymore. Because being able to establish strong and healthy communication starts with accepting other life styles, lives and beliefs. To understand and accept another; It doesn't mean justifying it or affirming it. It's just being able to understand why he behaved the way he did. When you understand why he is behaving that way, you identify the root of the problem. This is where real communication starts and there is always a solution for every issue in such communication.
It cannot be expected that people who are self-directed, talk only about themselves, boast, see themselves right in everything and do not give the other an opportunity to communicate well and establish strong bonds with the other person. The basis of healthy communication starts with listening to the other person. Listening also provides knowledge. It gives people a vision. Listening in the real sense is a subject that develops people. Listening adds depth to interpersonal relationships, increases loyalty, and strengthens ties. It enables the formation of new friendships and creates a basis for people to enter new environments.
It is important to focus on when a person is speaking, to listen without interrupting, to try to understand their needs, to understand whether they are speaking to solve a problem or just want to tell, relax and share, to make the other person feel that you are listening to them, to repeat what they have said from time to time, to ask questions and to try to listen without judgment. This is what they call empathetic listening or active listening. And as we said, listening develops people, it enables to observe other people and get to know them better. It allows us to look at life from different perspectives and to understand that there are thousands of different lives. And in fact, these thousands of different lives are proof that the world doesn't just revolve around us.
Being a listener at Alohalive means that you will witness thousands of different people, thousands of different lives, thousands of different lifestyles, understandings, sometimes problems and sometimes happiness. Because every day, thousands of speakers and thousands of listeners chat with each other and touch each other's lives. From the moment you sign up for this application and start listening to it for real, you will start to change too. You will be very surprised at the change in yourself and you will experience the happiness of understanding more people every day.