04 The Highest Level of Listening - Madelyn Burley-Allen
Mikis guest Madelyn Burley-Allen Level One of Listening as described in her book as the best and most important way to listen and appreciate and truly understand what is other people are saying when they talk to you. Madelyns teaching stresses the importance of the listeners responsibility in the communications process, which can make communication with others a most rewarding experience.
03 Attributes of a Good Listener - Madelyn Burley-Allen
Guest Madelyn Burley-Allen, author Listening, The Forgotten Skill, and Miki continue their discussion of the Three Levels of Listening. Level Two, as described briefly in the previous segment, is in the Primate are of the brain. It is also the emotional level which can also interfere with the way you perceive what a person is really saying.
02 Three Levels of Listening - Madelyn Burley-Allen
Mikis guest Madelyn Burley-Allen outlines the first and simplest level of hearing, Level Three.This level is centered in the reptilian part of your brain where you often tune out what people are saying due to internal distractions and lack of focus. Level Two is the middle of these levels of listening where you hear the words but dont get the true meaning in the words, possibly due to such factors as societal differences, failure to observe facial and body language along with the words you...
01 Listening, The Forgotten Skill - Madelyn Burley-Allen
Guest Madelyn Burley-Allen, author of Listening, The Forgotten Skill, and Miki discuss how we hear a lot of people talking, but rarely listen to what they are really saying. Madelyn explains the difference between listening and hearing. She also describes the three levels of listening.02 03 04
04 The Highest Level of Listening - Madelyn Burley-Allen
Mikis guest Madelyn Burley-Allen Level One of Listening as described in her book as the best and most important way to listen and appreciate and truly understand what is other people are saying when they talk to you. Madelyns teaching stresses the importance of the listeners responsibility in the communications process, which can make communication with others a most rewarding experience.
03 Attributes of a Good Listener - Madelyn Burley-Allen
Guest Madelyn Burley-Allen, author Listening, The Forgotten Skill, and Miki continue their discussion of the Three Levels of Listening. Level Two, as described briefly in the previous segment, is in the Primate are of the brain. It is also the emotional level which can also interfere with the way you perceive what a person is really saying.
02 Three Levels of Listening - Madelyn Burley-Allen
Mikis guest Madelyn Burley-Allen outlines the first and simplest level of hearing, Level Three.This level is centered in the reptilian part of your brain where you often tune out what people are saying due to internal distractions and lack of focus. Level Two is the middle of these levels of listening where you hear the words but dont get the true meaning in the words, possibly due to such factors as societal differences, failure to observe facial and body language along with the words you...
01 Listening, The Forgotten Skill - Madelyn Burley-Allen
Guest Madelyn Burley-Allen, author of Listening, The Forgotten Skill, and Miki discuss how we hear a lot of people talking, but rarely listen to what they are really saying. Madelyn explains the difference between listening and hearing. She also describes the three levels of listening.02 03 04
04 Widowhood and Life Changes - Gail Graham
Mikis guest Gail Graham says that, as a widow herself, she has learned from painful experience how devastating the loss of a spouse can be. Her book Sea Changes is a most unusual book as it weaves in elements of reality, fantasy and suspense to create a haunting and enchanting story of how hope and grief can blend to create an unnamed emotion.
03 One Womans Story - Gail Graham
Guest Gail Graham is the author of seven books, three of which have been New York Times Book of the Year recommendations. Her latest book Sea Changes is the story of one woman and the pain, confusion and problems she suffers after the death of her husband.
02 The Newly Widowed - Gail Graham
Mikis guest Gail Graham outlines some of the differences (and some of the similarities) between Australia and the United States in the way women are treated and especially newly widowed women. Gail, who was born and raised in the US and then moved to Australia and lived there for many years, has recently moved back to the US and re-started a much delayed writing career with her new book Sea Changes. Gail and Miki also explore some of the misconceptions people have about widows and widowhood.
01 Sea Changes - Gail Graham
Guest Gail Graham, author of Sea Changes, and Miki discuss this new book, a most unusual and passionate work of fiction whose main character, Sarah, is newly widowed, bewildered and confused by the varied and conflicting advice she is being given by friends, family and counselors. They also explore how women are treated once their spouse is gone.
04 Celebrate Our Lives - Jennifer Trainer Thompson
Mikis guest Jennifer Thompson says that we dont need special occasions to celebrate our lives small family events on weekends help bring families together. Jennifer also tells Miki about her up-coming book about observing good manners in todays world
03 The Fate of Some of Our Older Traditions and Holidays - Jennifer Trainer
Guest Jennifer Thompson, author of a dozen books on topics from nuclear power to how to cook a meal on a yacht, and Miki discuss what has become of some our older traditions and holidays.
02 A World of Traditions - Jennifer Trainer Thompson
Mikis guest Jennifer Thompson outlines some of the family traditions and holidays that we share around the world and in our own families. Jennifer and Miki explore some of the more bizarre, crazy, and sometimes silly traditions each has encountered at home and in society in general.
01 Summer Traditions and Holidays - Jennifer Trainer Thompson
Guest Jennifer Trainer Thompson, author of The Joy of Family Traditions, and Miki discuss how we can celebrate summer, its traditions and its holidays with our family and create some new ones together.
04 Thirty Way to Patch Money Leaks at Home
Miki and her guest Marni Jameson explore some of the ways in which you can prevent or stop money leaks in your home from heating to landscaping. She also reminds us that our own home will probably never look like the model homes and magazine covers, and its really probably all for the best.
03 How to Create The Home You Will Love to Live In
Guest Marni Jameson and Miki discuss the best order in which to take the necessary steps whether you are going to do a new design or refurbish an old house, do over a guest bedroom or spruce up a bathroom. She also takes on the rather delicate subject of the sometimes crazy relationships with spouses, contractors, Mother Nature, kids, nosy neighbors and dwindling budgets that you will probably have to face when working on a home project, whether its old or new, large or small.
02 Reality Check
Mikis guest Marni Jameson, author of The House Always Wins: How to Create the House You Love, Without Busting Your Budget, outlines some of the very first things we have to do to create a home that truly reflects our own style, first by figuring out exactly what that is.
01 Home Design Advice
Guest Marni Jameson and Miki discuss how we can create the home we love without busting our budget. Marni advises to work at making our home one we can enjoy for day-to-day living while adhering to this mantra -- if you cant be in the house you love, love the house youre in.
04 There Is Always A Way - Scott Silverman
Miki and her guest Scott Silverman both live by the belief that THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY. Make waves, keep searching, have passion, and never waver when you are searching for your Yes. Its worth it.
03 Good Advice - Scott Silverman
Guest Scott Silverman and Miki explore more of the five steps that Scott has identified for finding your Yes. A most important part of this is the ability to be uncomfortable and able to find new areas when the old ones dont serve you well any more. Scott emphasizes that another important step is to take the time to find the Yes you need and want.
02 Five Steps To Finding Your 'Yes' - Scott Silverman
Mikis guest Scott Silverman explains how to know or recognize your Yes and ways to find yeses when you have identified them. One of the first steps is Commitment never wavering in your search for a new way to do things and get new results. You never ever need to accept a No!
01 Tell Me No I Dare You - Scott Silverman
Guest Scott Silverman, author of the book Tell Me No I Dare You is a very brave man. He took hold and conquered a lot of Nos in his life, overcame them, and was recently named a CNN Hero for the work he has done in his community to help people, old and young, to get back on the feet and make a new life for themselves. He gives us some of the five steps he has found to finding your Yes.
04 Moderate Exercise - Christina Avaness
Mikis guest Christina Avaness asserts that moderate changes in the foods you buy and prepare and those you avoid can make changes in your health. Miki especially likes her recipes for Super Yam Pie and Bison Burgers.
03 Good Advice - Christina Avaness
Guest Christina Avanesss book is part good advice and information for living a healthy lifestyle and part fabulous cook book. She offers a list of Super Enzyme foods and a list of foods to avoid, as well as some wonderful recipes that take everyday foods full of Super Enzymes and create new ways to prepare them for good tasting and health supporting dishes.
02 Food Alchemist - Christina Avaness
Christina Avaness, self-styled Food Alchemist, and Miki explore some of the ways in which moderate changes in diet can work to help heal, and even prevent, many of todays more common illnesses such as diabetes and heart problems. They also explore the how eating the right kinds of food, foods containing super enzymes, can have an amazing affect on your health and well-being.
01 Living Beyond Organic - Christina Avaness
Guest Christina Avaness has authored a book called Living Beyond Organic . Christina draws on knowledge she gained when she spent several years searching for something more than pharmaceuticals to help heal her husband of heart problems. This knowledge led her to new areas of knowledge of how food intake can affect the body and health of a person.