Listening is defined as giving one's attention to sound or action. Listening involves complex affective, cognitive, and behavioral processes. Affective processes include the motivation to attend to others. Cognitive processes include attending to, understanding, receiving, and interpreting content and relational messages. Behavioral processes include responding with verbal and nonverbal...
Angel Whispers – Patterns
Patterns are defined as a consistent and recurring characteristic or trait that helps in the identification of a phenomenon or problem, and serves as an indicator or model for predicting future behavior. Oh boy, now I can use my patterns to predict my future behavior (tee hee). If you’re...
Angel Whispers – Shame and Truth
Shame is such a deep subject, an emotion that seems illusive to trace. Perhaps this is due to a layering effect and the challenge that comes with how to express shame. Shame is defined as a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or...
Angel Whispers – Mercury Retrograde
Mercury Retrograde always makes things interesting, especially for anyone who is aware of their sensitivity to the effects of planetary movements. For those who are in touch with this type of influence, you might know the pre-shadow of the current Mercury Retrograde in Aries started March 8th. The post-shadow...
Angel Whispers – Limitations
I often wonder how we so easily find limitations in such a big modern world. Is it possible we have been controlled by others for so long, it’s now part of our DNA to fear our own power? Are limitations more Cosmic in nature, in that we must experience...
Angel Whispers – My Last Lifetime?
I am amazed at the number of people who have expressed a desire for this to be their last lifetime. As a result of this repeating theme through case studies, I have found this desire can be related to an energetic imbalance. This expression is not always a symptom,...
Angel Whispers – The Thrive Factor
In Arianna Huffington’s book Thrive, she describes her thrive factor formula. She promotes actions which include positive physical and behavioral health practices such as mindfulness, downtime, giving to others, and a renewed connection with your deepest values. It involves what she calls “evicting the obnoxious roommate in your head,”...
Angel Whispers – Conditioning
The word conditioning is a noun that means having a significant influence that in some way helps determine the manner or outcome. The secondary definition means bringing something into the desired state for use. Conditioning occurs as the result of the circumstances affecting the way in which people live...
Angel Whispers – Certainty
The angel whisper theme over the past week has been around the need for certainty. If my clients had certainty, would they be coming to see me? (tee tee) Certainty is perfect knowledge that has total security from error, or the mental state of being without doubt. Objectively defined,...
Angel Whispers – Consequence
A consequence is a result or effect of an action or condition. B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) is best known for developing the theory of Operant Conditioning, which uses re-enforcers or consequences to change behavior. According to this theory, the rate at which a certain behavior occurs is determined not by...