Communication Causing a World That Works

Communication is the foundation of life itself. By enabling us to express and bring forth commitment, our communication causes things to happen in the world.

Since communication plays such an important part in our day-to-day lives, it continues to be a major focus of all the Life-spring courses. But what exactly is communication, and how is it working for you? How do you carry the experience of sharing at a deep level of connectedness from the training room out into everyday life?

Honest, clear, direct communication is an essential key to our own experience of who we are, to solid, real, and vitally alive relationships, and to creating a world that works.

Effective Communication

A primary element of effective communication is clarity about what you want to say. Only when you take the time to get clear about your purpose can you express what is true for you--your "bottom line." To deliver clear communication, just STOP, LOOK, and say what you mean. Simple? How many times have you been sorry for something you just said because you didn't really mean it? Are you using your honesty as a sledgehammer to hurt someone or to be right?

In order to communicate consciously, it is imperative to first be honest with yourself, to get in touch with your experience, and to take responsibility by expressing it as your experience. When you trust and respect yourself enough to be yourself honestly, others can respond with trust and respect.

Once you are clear about the message you want to deliver, the commitment to what it is you have to say--your belief in it--is what will project energy, enthusiasm, and aliveness.

Results

Intention . . . Action

Intention is another major component of communicating to achieve the results you want to create. Causing things to be in the world begins with an idea, and someone's willingness to communicate about it in such a way that people acknowledge that it exists.

To check your intention, you need only to look at your results, because your communication will always deliver your intended results. Put another way, whatever result you get back from your communication has everything to do with your intention regarding that communication. Think back to a time when you asked for a raise, for example, and how much the answer had to do with your clarity of intention!

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