Listening?

In your essay, first describe what the main message of Julian Treasure’s video was. Do you agree or disagree with his main message? Next, try one of the 5 exercises that Juilian Treasure suggests to improve your listening. Describe for your blog audience which exercise you tried and the results. What did you hear? What happened? How do you think these exercise(s) could improve your life and your ability to listen?

       The main message of this video is that we should listen to the physical world around us, and connect with it to fully be living.  Listening is a skill  we need to learn to live in peace.  After I watched this video, yes I think I do agree with it.  We live in a world of multitasking, and we are so busy, and so is everyone around us.  We just rush through everything, and we don't take the time to listen to our situations.  Yes, like in the video maybe that's why there are fights, and wars.  One of the exercises I did was the acronym exercise.  I applied RASA to the exercise.  Receive, appreciate, summarize, and ask.  First of all, I had my husband sit down with me, and talk to me about how he felt about kickboxing, and what plans he had.  My husband likes kickboxing, and MMA fights.  I sat down with him, and we shut off everything around us, and had our kids play in their rooms.  I followed the steps in the RASA exercise.  When he talked I paid attention, and I would make sounds like "uh huh" or "hmm" or "oh ok".  When he would say something I wanted to go more in depth with, I would say "so" and "by the way".  Whenever I was lost or confused I would always ask him questions.  There were times when I wasn't listening, I would bug in about something else, and he would forget what he was going to say.  We would try to get back on track.  I heard a lot of kickboxing noises as he mimics the moves he showed me.  We carried a pretty good conversation through this listening exercise.  I think these exercise would help a lot to improve my life.  If we actively listen, I think we could understand each other more.  It will make life easier.