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Healthy Personal Boundaries in communicating. June 6 2018.

Jun 28, 2018
 

How to create Healthy Personal Boundaries in communicating. People SKOWL.  We Secret Keep, Omit, Withhold and Lie to different degrees in different situations. It’s a common denominator and part of personal boundaries. It’s done with the intention of keeping people safe. How do you create healthy boundaries to maintain healthy safe relationships? 

Today I’m going to talk about using healthy omitting, withholding and secret keeping.

By developing healthy personal boundaries, you put yourself in a position to have peace of mind in your relationships. All of them.

Are your boundaries healthy? Take at look at your relationships. The ones that are dysfunctional are that way partly because boundaries are muddled.

Creating different boundaries for the different groups of people in your life is important to your mental health and is actually natural for people.

I haven’t met a person who doesn’t SKOWL at points in their lives.

Because of our unique Human Interaction Processes, HIP’s, we ...

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The Power of Intentions in Communicating. May 23 2018.

Jun 02, 2018
 

Help Me Communicate.

The Power of Intentions in Communicating.

What is the difference between underlying and overlying intentions? How do they affect communications?

Expressing intentions are a very key part of the communications process.

As humans when we communicate, we go through a 5 step Human Interaction Process.

  1. We sense something first. We hear or see something typically.
  2. A thought/perception is triggered. We think about what we saw and heard.
  3. The next thing that happens is we get a feeling or emotion about what we saw and heard.
  4. Then we derive an intention based on what we saw or heard, thought and felt.
  5. We choose to act in some way. The action can be silence, speaking words, reaching out and touching, etc.

We sense, think, feel, intend and act. This is our communication process as humans.

The intention and choice of action determines if communication stays on track or goes off. Expressing and understanding each person’s intention is an important key to conflict ...

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