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Practice Listening: Summarize Spoken Text ID: #39194 Long Mundane sounds
Instructions
Mundane sounds can be really interesting if you pay attention. I call that the hidden choir. It's around us all the time. The next exercise is probably the most important of all of these, if you just take one thing away. This is listening positions — the idea that you can move your listening position to what's appropriate to what you're listening to. This is playing with those filters. Do you remember, I gave you those filters at the beginning? It's starting to play with them as levers, to get conscious about them and to move to different places. These are just some of the listening positions, or scales of listening positions, that you can use. There are many. Have fun with that. It's very exciting. And finally, an acronym. You can use this in listening, in communication. If you're in any one of those roles — and I think that probably is everybody who's listening to this talk — the acronym is RASA, which is the Sanskrit word for juice or essence. And RASA stands for: Receive, which means pay attention to the person; Appreciate, making little noises like 'hmm', 'oh', 'OK'; Summarize, the word 'so' is very important in communication; and Ask, ask questions afterward. Now sound is my passion, it's my life. I wrote a whole book about it. So, I live to listen. That's too much to ask from most people. But I believe that every human being needs to listen consciously in order to live fully - connected in space and in time to the physical world around us, connected in understanding to each other, not to mention spiritually connected, because every spiritual path I know of has listening and contemplation.
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