Listen With Your Heart

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

EP 75 A recent evening and a special moment and reminder that we can listen with more than our heads.

SUMMARY

Hi, this is Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter and you are listening to The No BS Coaching Advice Podcast. I like to do this show regularly as a reminder about, well, I like talking about life, the universe and everything, try and help you be more effective in it. And today’s show comes . . . Well, I’m reminded of it from a group that I ran this week where there’s a man in the group who was talking about a tragedy in his life that he experienced the year before.

As I was listening to him talk and realizing that he’d never really grieved for his loss, I was invited to step into the process of working with him. I stood up in front of him as he was talking and just simply said, “can I touch you?” He said, “yes,” and I extended my arms around him and held him in my arms for a minute and simply said, “this is a safe place for you to take one minute and open…