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Tiger Lily

Gold Meritorious Patron
What? Typo? Early in the morning. Rub my sleepy eyes..


Oh yeah. That's what I thought you wrote. :whistling:

:roflmao: Well you've certainly clarified your gender!!!

But. . . . you may have just supplied the motivation needed to elicit the coveted "acking" behavior!! Maybe I don't need to resort to the frying pan just yet. . .

:hmm:TL
 

Tiger Lily

Gold Meritorious Patron
The subject of acknowledgment, however, is an important one. It's important for the person who should be acked, but equally important for the person who ought be doing the acknowledging. This point being a reciprocal to the one I made in my earlier post on this thread.

Acknowledgment is an essential element in the reciprocation of life-force (exchange) between Beings. For the acknowledger, it enables him to keep his relationship lines clean and free of hung-up "traffic" that would otherwise manifest as "charge" . . . even if such charge might not be particularly observed because, for most folks it is so much the norm, it is not seen as being anything other than the "usual."

But I recommend an experiment . . . do some gracious acknowledging, and see how much cleaner you'll feel! :yes: See how much closer to the other Being you'll feel!:yes:

Hell, you might even notice your space and reach has expanded!:yes: And, horror of horrors, your control of your environment improves!:yes: And better, the yabber-mouth might likely be less insistent at running on automatic when with you . . . and worse, you might even find you are actually understanding each other more! Heaven forbid . . . nah, that ain't natural!:nervous:

But the cleverest trick of all, if you want to have a delightful relationship, is to not demonstrate your superior brilliance and knowledge at solving problems. :no: Yes ack and give big hugs, they are good, but after the ack and hug, things like: "and have you come up with any answer to it yet?" or, "Hmm, that's an interesting/difficult scenario, got any ideas on handling it?"

Gentlemen, it keeps the shit off your lines! :woohoo: :hysterical:

Roger the reformed Philistine [/SIZE]

You are brilliant!! If my hubby did this I'd be swept completely off my feet and be putty in his hands. In fact I think I'll print this out for him!!

:)TL
 

RogerB

Crusader
Very Wise!

You are brilliant!! If my hubby did this I'd be swept completely off my feet and be putty in his hands. In fact I think I'll print this out for him!!

:)TL

Very wise, Miss Muffet! Brownie points all round! :yes:

Men, hint, hint, hint, hint! :)

R
 

Lovesnightsky

Silver Meritorious Patron
waaaaaaay before scientology I went to a course on parenting. One of the most useful lessons was to get one's kid to ack what had been said:

"Clean up your room after breakfast please"

silence.

"Honey, did you hear what I just said?"

"ugh? yeah"

"can you repeat it for me please?"

"clean my room after breakfast."

"thank you. And you will do it?"

"do what?"

"clean your room after breakfast."

"Chris is coming over after breakfast, we are going to play football this morning."

"Ask him to help you, then you get to go faster."

"Help me clean my room??"

"Yes."

"I'll clean it now."

"Great!"

Funny thing about kids, they also repeat the last few sentences and that's because the brain can rewind the last few minutes of experience. It means of course the person was in fact not listening.

Yes, honest listening and acknowledging what someone said is good manners anywhere in the world.
 
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