**Are you a good listener?**

Do you dominate the conversation most of the time or let other people talk? Have you ever met someone who seems so interesting and adorable until he spent 20 minutes talking about himself and telling his stories without even making an attempt to ask your name? Yes, I know you do not like this kind of people. The truth is we all try to avoid such people. People always love to talk about themselves and hardly allow other people to open their mouths but when they start doing it more often, other individuals get fed up with their self-centeredness and try to maintain distance with them. 

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**Listen more while communicating**
Wise people always follow the rule of listening more rather than talking more. More people like to spend time with individuals who spend more time in listening instead of bragging about themselves. Most of the people who are successful in this world are the ones who do more listening than talking. Communication is always a two-way activity. An individual who dominates the whole conversation might feel good about it that he collected all the attention but that kind of individual might be avoided next time. 

People tend to believe that the only purpose of communication is expressing themselves but that is just a half side of the story. One of the best rules of soothing conversation is to learn how to listen. When you listen, you get to learn more. You understand people and their realities in a better way. When you talk, you just tell about what you feel and there’s nothing new that you learn this way. No doubt, being able to say what you feel is as important as listening but you should master the art of balancing the communication in order to make it fruitful. 

It is more likely that you will have more constructive conversations when you feel that your point of view is being heard. Half of the issues get solved when you communicate with the aim of listening rather than arguing. In order to improve your communication skills and to have a healthy personal development, you should carefully work towards developing listening skills. 
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**Benefits of being a good listener**
Being a good listener gives you a deeper level of understanding about the situation of the other person and help you to decide that which words are better to use and which should be avoided in different situations. 

There is a multitude of benefits that the power of listening provides us. Let’s have a look at them:

-  **Listening builds trust**
People who listen to other’s situations carefully are usually trusted more than the ones who always grab the talking stick and barge straight into the chatter. Listening builds trust and, as we all know, trust is the grease of changing minds. When other people start trusting you, they pour their hearts out to you and this gives you a chance to analyze the circumstances of others. 

-   **Listening is the healing power**
Whenever you feel down and disappointed, you always think about a person that can listen to you peacefully so that you can vent out your anger and frustration. Believe me, in the end, it is all about some person who can listen us and put-up with our emotional state without even complaining about it afterward. Being a good listener is a gift that is sent from God. A good listener holds a great healing power that can make feel others good about themselves when they are at their worst. 

-  **Listening helps in personal development**
Better listening skills always lead to a more complete and peaceful day-to-day life. A good listener always categorized as a wise person who knows how and when to empathize with others in the hour of need. A good listener gets popular as a kind individual who solves others problems and let them catch new opportunities in life. Listening plays an important role in shaping an individual towards a happy and satisfied life. It fastens the process of personal development as people learn more and more when they listen to other’s point of view. 

-  **Listening promotes strong relationships**
Good listening helps in resolving various matters and builds strong relationship bonds. Whenever people encounter a conflict, they sit down and discuss the issue by listening each other’s point of view so that they can identify the root of the problem. The process of effective and active listening gives rise to healthy communications which in turn lead to stronger friendships and relationships. When you communicate, try to develop a habit of paying attention to what the other person is saying. When people know that they actually get heard, they start having stronger and beautiful relations.

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