How to be More Receptive

Written By Colēgia

Learning how to adapt to new situations is a crucial life skill. Equally as important is being receptive to things. This can be seen in many areas such as interpersonal relationships, to discovering more about ourselves. Today we want to talk about how to be more receptive and why it matters.

Tuning Into Your Feelings

Your feelings are a great form of insight into how you are doing at any given time. In order to be receptive towards the world, we need to first reflect on how we are first. Meditation is a great practical way to address this since it gives us a quiet environment to address our thoughts. It can help us discover how we truly feel about something while being sincere as to how to best work on it. This type of personal awareness is good because it gives us an avenue to check in with ourselves when we need help. It can also cue us into reaching out to others in case it's something that we feel we can't solve on our own. A good way to be receptive towards yourself is to practice patience since we often get the best results when we are gentle.

“Your feelings are a great form of insight into how you are doing at any given time.”

Being Receptive to Others

Once we feel confident in our ability to be receptive with ourselves, we can then focus on how we interact with others. Communication skills are one of the cornerstones of being receptive to other people since it demonstrates the ability empathize. A great way to make friends is by practicing skills such as active listening. This ensures that the other side is heard without making them feel left out. It's good to remember that effective communication requires an equal amount of input from both sides. Being receptive to others takes an active effort since we need to be mindful that everyone is different. A good thing to do is to practice the same amount of patience similar to how we would treat ourselves since that can help us be more receptive.

“Communication skills are one of the cornerstones of being receptive to other people since it demonstrates the ability empathize.”

Having an Open Mind

One of the last things to do when it comes to being more receptive is to have an open mind. Having a flexible manner of thinking is essential to being receptive. When we are open to new ideas, we can see different perspectives with things we've done before and giving us an overall better outlook. One example of this can be seen when we have a disagreement with someone. The easy thing to do is to only consider our side of a disagreement, although that would effectively close ourselves off to other points of view. A better approach is to consider how the other side feels in this situation. For all we know, there was an element to the disagreement that we didn't consider until it was brought up. Being receptive involves putting ourselves out there and having a willingness to embrace discomfort at times. It requires a healthy balance between being authentic while also giving others the chance to express themselves.

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