Self-Care With Shaki

Communication is the key to elevate in every area of your life- be it a relationship, career or personal development. The way you communicate your message across has all the power to build a strong connection between you and the other individual/ group of people. Great communicators always aim at building meaningful relationships and trust among the individual or the group of audience they are speaking to. Especially, if you are in a business environment it is crucial to be an effective communicator. Below are some of the tips that can enhance your communication skills: 1. Connect emotionally People will always forget what you said and did, but they will never forget the way you made them feel. A good communicator should connect with their audience emotionally and individually. Do not strive hard to maintain a persona. Let that go. Be you, be human. Express what you feel, tell people what you care about. Communicate your stories with them, what inspired you, what y...

One essential skill that everyone needs to develop is good listening skills. Being a good listener will help you view the world through the other person's eyes. You will be able to develop empathy and maintain serenity once you start listening to what others say. I used to be someone who was very impulsive to interrupt someone while they are talking and give my opinion right away. This habit made the speaker uncomfortable and stop abruptly without completing their sentence. After realizing that I have been doing a mistake, I started developing good listening skills. After becoming an efficient listener, I understood that I was missing out a lot of information by not lending my ears properly. Most of us tend to daydream instead of listening. Instead of zoning out all the time, let's try to focus on the speaker. I think it will make more sense once we tune up our listening skills and start listening to the one who is putting effort to speak to us. 1. You wi...

Words hold profound power. Especially the words we say to ourselves. Self-talk is the process of talking to ourselves and how we talk to ourselves decide the direction of our life. It will decide if our life is positive and active or negative and dull. According to my experiences, I would say that it really depends on how much importance you give to yourself. If you are important to you then you will never let yourself down with all those negative self-talk. Basically, there are two ways you talk to yourself - negative and positive. Negative self-talk is where you put yourself down and don’t respect your feelings. Positive self-talk is is where you accept yourselves and decide to be there for you. The common misunderstanding of self-talk is that you need to be positive even when you are sad. Please don’t do that. Do not ignore the negative. You have to just accept the negative. Let me clear you with an example Let's say that you are feeling insecure about yo...

Words have the capability to build us or destroy us. You might have a basic conception that words are just used to communicate or to understand what the other one is saying.  But, words have more power than you can even imagine. They construct the world around you. The Words that we speak are made up of vibrations and sounds. These vibrations, based on how they are (negative or positive) build the world around us. It constructs our reality. Our subconscious mind is the reason for how we perceive reality. It handles 95% of our total life. And, the most fascinating thing about the subconscious mind when coming to words is that it does not process negative words. That is it does not differentiate "can't, not, don't, shouldn't" and those types of negative words. For example, if you are running late for a meeting and you say to yourself that "I won't be late hereafter", your subconscious mind will process it as "I will be late here...