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		<title>Communication Matters: Being your own best friend</title>
		<link>http://sandhisl.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/communication-matters-being-your-own-best-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing topic of empathic listening from previous column. Specifically on listening to self and having unconditional acceptance and self compassion which is the basis of having compassion and acceptance for others. Empathy and listening as a skill that can be learned and practiced.   Similarites between meditation practices and NVC. Ends with a concrete example of transforming a painful story into the feelings and needs which helps in self understanding and self compassion.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandhisl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10250410&amp;post=101&amp;subd=sandhisl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communication Matters: Why Can’t you just listen to me?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jeyanthy Siva Communication has two aspects, there is speaking and there is listening. Today, I want to talk about listening, specifically, empathic listening – the art of hearing what is in the heart of another person, in the Nonviolent Communication way. But first, why? Its a difficult thing to do &#8211; to really give [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandhisl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10250410&amp;post=98&amp;subd=sandhisl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communication Matters: Responding compassionately to battles of daily life for Parents</title>
		<link>http://sandhisl.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/communication-matters-responding-compassionately-to-battles-of-daily-life-for-parents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jeyanthy Siva This is a column on Nonviolent Communication (NVC), also known as compassionate communication. NVC shows a path, a step by step process, of how to go from disconnection and violence to connection, compassionate understanding and cooperation &#8211; with ourselves, the people around us and the world we live in. It is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandhisl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10250410&amp;post=95&amp;subd=sandhisl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communication Matters: The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.</title>
		<link>http://sandhisl.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/the-sorrow-which-has-no-vent-in-tears-may-make-other-organs-weep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consequences of repressing feelings for individuals and society. What to do with feelings.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandhisl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10250410&amp;post=90&amp;subd=sandhisl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communication Matters: What is the purpose of feelings?</title>
		<link>http://sandhisl.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/communication-matters-what-is-the-purpose-of-feelings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Nonviolent Communication (NVC) feelings are valuable because they guide us to discover what is important to us – what we need to make our lives whole. Feelings tell us when one or more of our needs are being met or not being met. It can be empowering to
connect my feelings to my own needs and not to the other person(s) behavior.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandhisl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10250410&amp;post=73&amp;subd=sandhisl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome!</title>
		<link>http://sandhisl.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/welcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog is for you to be able to read all the Communication Matters columns published in the newspaper in Sri Lanka in one place and to post comments or questions &#8211; to engage in a constructive discussion. Note that most recent week&#8217;s column is on top and it goes in order back to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandhisl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10250410&amp;post=45&amp;subd=sandhisl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communication Matters: Feelings, nothing more than feelings&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sandhisl.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/communication-matters-feelings-nothing-more-than-feelings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Topic is role of feelings in Nonviolent Communication. In NVC, feelings can be an important part of understanding what’s happening in our own heart, expressing ourselves to others, and understanding what’s alive in someone else’s heart. This column talks about what is it exactly that we mean by “feelings”  in NVC and how are they related to Needs.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandhisl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10250410&amp;post=33&amp;subd=sandhisl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communication Matters: Needs and Strategies – what they are and how they are related to each other</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Topic is worldview (or paradigm) which underlies the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process. And what  we mean by needs in NVC and how are they different from the strategies we use to meet the needs.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandhisl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10250410&amp;post=29&amp;subd=sandhisl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communication Matters: Mud slinging as a way to motivate people to give us empathy and care?</title>
		<link>http://sandhisl.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/communication-matters-mud-slinging-as-a-way-to-motivate-people-to-give-us-empathy-and-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Topic is how we use ineffective and sometimes painful and destructive methods to try to get our needs met when we have neither been taught to be aware of our needs nor how to express them in a way others can enjoy hearing them and contributing to us. And how Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process can help us to meet our needs more effectively and with less harm to self and others.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandhisl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10250410&amp;post=24&amp;subd=sandhisl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communication Matters: Needs and how to get in touch with some of yours</title>
		<link>http://sandhisl.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/communication-matters-needs-and-how-to-get-in-touch-with-some-of-yours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we are using Nonviolent Communication (NVC), we have the intention to create a quality of connection between people that will lead to everybody’s needs being met nonviolently. How does awareness of Needs as we understand them in NVC support this intention? How do we find our needs?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandhisl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10250410&amp;post=16&amp;subd=sandhisl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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