On our healing path, there is one thing we often ignore.

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When we help others, we can get lost in our process.

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Sticking to our steps and our way of helping.

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It can be easy to forget one of the most important elements.

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When we are looking to help other, we need to focus on what they need.

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And more than some process or procedure, they need something fundamental from us.

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It is so fundamental that it is also easy t forget and brush over.

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For in order to truly help others, they must feel safe with us.

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Yet in order to feel safe with us, we have to exhibit one important trait.

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When someone is going through a hard time they need to know that we will take care of them.

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They need to know that we care.

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So how do we show that we do?

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Through one important experience.

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We have to help them feel heard.

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To feel that when they have a concern or a challenge that we can really hear them.

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That we have their best interests at heart.

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And that we are there for them when they really need us.

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This is no small feat.

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To be there in a way that makes them feel supported.

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Not in the way we think they should be supported.

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But in the way they need to feel that they are being supported.

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It makes all the difference in the world.

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This is true no matter what way we work with people.

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Whether it is in business or a more humanitarian cause.

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And if we are in the healing arts, it is paramount.

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For we can only take people as deep in their process as they feel safe with us.

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The surest way to help someone feel safe is making sure they feel heard.

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Just listening to them in a way that they know we are hearing them is worth everything to them.

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It is just that simple.

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So who in your life can you support by learning to listen to them in a profound way.

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour