A recent study published in the Journal of Positive Psychology finds that listening carefully and attentively increases the level of humility in any conversation, resulting in a positive feedback loop ...

In my counseling practice, I can turn a poor listener into a good listener through a simple exercise. I use a talking stick as a visual reminder of who has the floor in a conversation and to teach ...

"You breathe well," she told me, "but you exhale horribly." Breathing in deep to fill our lungs requires work, and for optimal performance when exercising, so should the exhale. I realized that unless ...

Listening can be a matter of life and death. Imagine a distracted hostage negotiator or an airline pilot who tunes out air traffic control. Consider an ER physician who fails to hear a critically ill ...