Listening Skills

Happy laughter hit the airwaves when Spiritual Teacher Angelica Rose interviewed with Coach Steve Toth on the “Mind, Body and Soul Show.“I like to have fun,” Angelica said. Besides joy, Angelica’s message teaches communication in businesses and relationships. Specializing in creative marketing, Angelica helps businesses and people move into their greatness.

Angelica sees her own beauty. Using her five senses as well as her ability to see, hear and feel things that go beyond, Angelica helps others find their beauty too, which she describes as discovering “who you are and who you are not.” She said, “beauty is the reflection of inner work.” She helps people get to know themselves and their businesses and make them the best they can be through creative marketing.

“I like to see people move to higher consciousness and move out the roles of drama kings and drama queens,” Angelica said. By coaching people she teaches them to be interdependent, not dependent. She empowers them by making them feel more than they are, not less than they are. She teaches the importance of relationships, which is the heart-felt communication that moves into who people truly are, whether is it a group or an individual.

The ability to listen and to develop listening skills is key to discovery. Angelica’s formula for listening is called LOVE.

L -- Listening
O -- Observing
V -- Verifying
E -- Empathizing

Listening, or hearing the words, is to be done in an attentive manner, not selectively, which accounts for 7% of the art of listening. Observing the body language is 55%, and voice tone and volume is 38% of the picture. Finally empathizing means that the listener relates through understanding -- what it would feel like to be the other person. “Be compassionate, ”she said“, that means that when you listen people feel cared for and nurtured.

Many agendas can be hiding when someone is talking. The listener might be busy with what’s going on in their head. They might be agreeing or disagreeing, judging what the speaker is wearing, how they speak or even focusing on themselves. “It is the responsibility of the listener to take the attention off themselves and put it on the person who is talking,” she said. “The responsibility of the speaker is to make sure that what they are saying is being understood.”

Angelica has two books to her credit -- “Living Life As You Always Dreamed,” and “Secrets to Running a Successful Business.” Her message of love, communication and compassion can teach people diversity and take them into areas that they’ve never even imagined. “What’s important to know, is what is unique about each individual,” she said.