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7. Practice being a peacemaker if family squabbles
erupt.
With the stress of holiday expectations, it’s easy for people to get their feelings
hurt. If this starts happening in your family interactions, shift your view to the bigger
picture and help family members make peace with one other. Two simple keys here are to
listen more attentively and to let others know that they have been heard.
Below is an excerpt from Joel and Michelle Levey’s book Living in
Balance that may help you with good communication with your family members
during the holidays:
An important dimension of balance in action
is how you communicate with others. As you practice mindfulness, you’ve probably
begun to notice that, even as you engage in conversations with people throughout the day,
you have a fair amount of background conversation going on in your own mind
as you constantly interpret, evaluate, and judge your experience.
Although this mental activity is useful in
making sense out of your experience, it may actually be reducing the clarity of your
experience itself. If we’re talking together, for example, it’ll be impossible
for you to really hear what I’m saying if you’re talking at the same time –
and that includes thinking about what you’re going to say next.
Because so many of the breakdowns in our
personal and professional relationships come about because people are not being listened
to, or not feeling listened to, learning to listen better is really an important
skill. Perhaps if people could calculate how much poor attention and listening
habits cost us in rework, frustration, accidents, and heartache, we’d be more
motivated to invest the time, energy, and attention necessary to improve the quality of
our awareness and communication skills.
"Joel and Michelle have constructed a text of
sheer brilliance. Every page offers new insights and truth. No reader
could be disappointed by this book!" -- Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit
