It's so easy to reflect the struggle conversation you had with a friend onto your colleague at work who you think is struggling with the same thing.

But actually it's a bit more unique. But for them it's different. And finishing sentences or predicting sentences means your mind is running ahead

while that person is trying to find clarity. And if you're running ahead what ends up happening is that person ends up feeling like you're not listening, ends up feeling like you're disengaged and ultimately ends up feeling like you don't understand.

Hey everyone welcome back to on purpose. Thank you so much for coming back to this week's episode. Now I know that for the past few weeks I've been interviewing guests

who can help us navigate this pandemic and I hope that you've been enjoying the episodes and learning from them because we've had some incredible experts from psychologists to doctors to people who have deeper insights about health and well being right now.

And today I'm really excited because we get to reconnect. So I know I've had those guests on for the past few episodes but today I thought to myself I just want to connect with you all again.

I want to be there for all of you. I'm here right now. I'm genuinely meditating. Well first of all I'm meditating every single day we've been doing the 20 days of live meditations were on round two.

And I'm doing them free every single morning on Instagram and Facebook at 9.30 a.m. Pacific time. That's about 12.30 p.m. Eastern. That's around 5.30 p.m. UK and 11.00 p.m. in India. And everywhere in between.

So every day I'm leading a guided meditation to find calm to find peace to find balance because I really believe that if you can have a mindful moment in your day, then it can have a big impact on your mindset for the rest of the day.

But not only am I meditating with you are meditating for you. I'm sending a lot of positive vibes sending you the best wishes. I'm really hoping that you're safe, that you're happy, that you're healthy and that you're in a good place.

I know it's testing times. I know it's a troubling time, but I'm hoping that you're safe at home and I'm hoping that you're healthy at home.

So today I wanted to talk about this very interesting topic that I think super relevant right now, but it's relevant in general as well.

And it's called the four communication mistakes we make in relationships and four ways to rapidly improve them.

Now here's what I feel about right now. We're having to communicate differently. I know that a lot of us are sitting on Zoom calls for hours every day.

We're on apps like WhatsApp and FaceTime and WebEx and whatever else it may be. And we're changing the way we communicate, not just for work, but with the people that we love the most, people that we're so close to.

And digital communication has its own pros and cons, right? There's pros to it. You can connect with anyone, anytime, anywhere.

And it's incredible that we can do that, but at the same time you want to really hug someone. You want to have a heart to heart with someone.

You want to open up your mind to someone and you want to have that deep connection with someone as well.

And so listening and communication are such big parts of what we're experiencing right now and improving our communication skills increases our connection.

Listen to that again. It's really, really important. Improving our communication skills increases our connection.

If you're feeling lonely, if you're feeling disconnected, if you're feeling disengaged right now, a lot of that is because we're not communicating effectively, because we've never had to communicate in this way before.

And we have to give ourselves the space and the stillness and the lack of judgment and guilt to feel that we can move on from this, because guess what?

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