Feeling Listened To: A Parsesciencing Inquiry

Abstract

Feeling listened to as a universal humanuniverse living experience was investigated with the Parsesciencing mode of inquiry. Historians were 10 English-speaking adults between 18 and 65 years old who had been hospitalized, willing to share their experiences of feeling listened to. The inquiry stance was “What is the discerning extant moment of the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling listened to?” The major discovery of this investigation revealed the discerning extant moment as: Feeling listened to is uplifting recognition amid disconcerting rebuff, as treasured affiliations surfaces with joyful gratification.