Heart-2-Heart

A true Heart-2-Heart is always nice to have with someone you truly care about. It helps you to understand where that person is coming from and it also helps the other person to understand where you are coming from. Most times, the result of a true Heart-2-Heart is a deeper relationship/friendship. The best times to have a Heart-2-Heart is when all parties are cool, calm and collect in their thinking. It's better to speak during times like that because most times, all parties are able to accept and process correctly what is being said without being on the deffensive. It's hard to try to explain yourself to someone when they are already on edge or already have an answer for anything you may say. It's much better to start a Heart-2-Heart when it's not expected. Because at that moment the person won't really feel that you are going at them but that you are just simply communicating. Communication is such a huge key in friendship/relationships. No one on planet earth can truly survive without real communication. Can you think about how you would go about your normal day without communication????? You won't get far, that's for sure. Communication is not just talking to someone but also being heard and listening to them as well. Communication has a few sides to it. You speak, you listen and you try to understand. If you don't understand, then you ask a question that will help you understand. It can get a bit scary too if you haven't had a true Heart-2-Heart because you don't know how the other person will receive what you need to say but I have learned a few things along my 30 years of life so far. #1 - Pray about the situtation and ask God to help you speak correctly and to open your heart to receive what they may have to say as well. #2 - Speak in an even tone and keep your body language to a minimum. #3 - Wait to receive a response, don't be so quick to keep talking. Make sure the other person has grasped what you have just said. #4 - Listen and try to understand what the person may say after you have expressed your views. #5 - Bring a resolution to the table, whether the other person agrees or not. Take some time and think to yourself, "Is there anyone I need to have a Heart-2-Heart with?"