4 Levels of Communication: Feelings Thoughts Experience and Words

The 4 Levels of Communication

The highest level is Feelings. Feelings is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look at how you're feeling about it.

The next level is Thought. If I cannot let you feel what I am feeling now, I use thoughts. I get you to think of my situation.

Next is Experience, which is something that you can relate to when you have the experience.

Finally, when feelings, thoughts and experience fail, Words is used. Words is the least effective communicator, for it is most open to misinterpretation and misunderstanding.

Words help you understand, experience allows you to know. Yet feelings is what you truly know, deep inside of you.

Let me use the Singapore flag as an example. I feel great when I see the Singapore flag in a foreign country. If you have not been to a foreign country, I get you to think of it. I also try to relate that to your own experience, like how you see your own clothing in other people's houses. Using words is troublesome because not everyone has the same understanding of words.

The highest thought is joy, the clearest words is words that contain truth. The greatest feeling is love. Joy, truth, love.

Taken from the book Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch. Explore interesting articles on mobile numerology:

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