Listening Diary (1) 05/02/2022

Name : Lembayung Luh Jingga

Student Number : 21202244063

Class : PBI L

Website	Audio Name	Level/other information
Spotify Link	The Self Love Fix : The 7 Ways to Tell You Are Walking in Self-Love	Improving listening skills by listening to a podcast

 

A. Summary: What was the listening selection about?

The podcast that I've been listening to is talking about how to practice self-love, self-compassion, self-care, and self-development in our daily life. The podcast has the title "The Ways to Tell You Are Walking in Self-Love". This podcast is guided by a host, Beatrice Kamau. So, Beatrice Kamau wants to tell the listener about her knowledge in case to develop yourself to be a better person by practicing Self-Love. She told us that there were 7 signs that identified us as people that had been walking in Self-Love. The signs of walking in self-love are, First, we don't limit ourselves and don't drag ourselves down every time we see someone seemingly living their best life. We don't have to compare ourselves to others. People that love themselves are able to separate how they feel about others' happiness. They were able to compliment and praise others without insulting themself with negative speech. 

Second, we have to listen to our "Body Choose". When we feel our body uncomfortable and it doesn't match the vibrance and the energy, we are allowed to get away from the situation and find out what should we do and what do we need. When we catch our physical signs about our body condition, we have to relax and rest for a while. We make time for what's important to us and what matters to us. We have to make sure that we are prioritizing our bodies. 

Third, we are able to form and set our boundaries. We have to know our limits and know how to communicate and vocalize what's okay and not okay because not everyone knows your boundaries. 

Fourth, we should live in a state of gratitude. We have to be grateful for our abilities, for the things we have, even though be grateful for how we look. If you view yourself with self-love, how could you not be thankful and grateful for everything you have and everything you are. 

Fifth, it's about the company you keep around, like your friends, your family, and significant others. They are all uplifting and nursing your spirit. They don't leave you feeling bad about yourself or feeling unworthy. We have to learn how to let people go if they are dragging you down. We know that people are been in our lives are important, but if they are causing you to feel badly and unworthy about yourself, they don't need to be around you. When you love yourself, you know exactly how to remove people from your life, and you know exactly who needs to stay in your life. 

Sixth, you don't allow yourself to negative self-talk in your life. We have to be careful of what we speak about ourselves. But when you walk in self-love, that kind of dialog doesn't happen because you're very forgiving of yourself. It is important to be forgiving and being passionate about yourself. It's a huge part of self-love. 

Seventh, we don't have to get defensive when other people criticize us, whether it's constructive or it's unconstructive criticism. If we know who we are and we know that somebody's saying is not true about you, you're not even going to be wasting your time getting defensive because there's nothing to prove to unconstructive criticism. But when it is constructive criticism, and somebody is trying to help you out, what would you do if you walk in self-love, you going to take that criticism and look at it from an objective point of view. And the last one, we had to know how to accept compliments. When somebody compliments your hair, your skin, and everything we have, just take it. You don't have to qualify it. You just need to accept it. 

B. Vocabularies/language expressions you learned

• Hard pills to swallow : Something that is difficult to accept 

• It is what it is : Expression that used to characterize a frustrating or challenging situation that  a person believes cannot be changed and must be accepted 

• Taffy : Insincere flattery 

• Hash out : To talk about something in order to reach agreement about it 

• Shift the paradigm : An important change that happens when the usual way of thinking about  or doing something is replaced by a new and different way 

•  Pay back : Take revenge on someone

 

C. Activities: What did you do? What scores did you get?

I have listened to a podcast with the purpose of improving my listening skills. But now, I don't have finished the test of my listening skills, so for a temporary time, I didn't know what scores I would get from it. I decided to take an individual test the next week to see what my listening level was. In the last 2 weeks ago, I have taken a tests about where's my English level. I still got the intermediate level and I hope I can be more improve it to the next level.

 

D. Benefits: What benefits did you learn from this topic?

The benefits that I can learn from this topic of the podcast is I can learn how it's important to be aware of ourselves, especially about our confidence in ourselves. We can increase our confidence by practicing self-love, self-compassion, self-care, and self-development in our daily lives. Besides that, we can be more passionate with ourselves by practicing self-love. The podcast that is hosted by Beatrice Kamau gives us a new perspective and paradigm that we can learn to be a part of our self-improvement. From the podcast, we can learn what signs when we are exactly walking in self-love and be more comfortable with ourselves. The main point that I can conclude from the knowledge that I've got from it's podcast is that I can learn how to deal with my imperfection and my flaws, and I can be more vulnerable with myself by practicing self-love. Self-love is a precious assets for our mental health and our self for the better future.

E. Self-Assessment

Questions	Yes	No	Maybe
The speed was OK.	✓
The vocabulary was OK.	✓
The pronunciation was OK.	✓
This helped my listening skills.	✓
I think my listening skills are improving.	✓
I need to improve (please circle all that apply): listening to main ideas/listening to details/listening to numbers/listening to fast speech/listening to connected speech/listening for a long time/listening to other accents/my vocabulary/my pronunciation.	✓