To fully listen to someone is to truly enter into the flow. By shutting off your own internal chatter and focusing solely on what the other person is saying, you enter into a sort of meditation. I find it helpful to visualize what they are describing. If you are not listening and still have your own internal dialogue going on simultaneously, you are not in the flow of energy/communication.

I recently started reading the Bhagavad Gita because it is part of the curriculum for my yoga teacher training. One passage in particular stuck out to me:

"Though I am unmanifest, fools
think that I have a form,
unaware of my higher existence,
which is permanent and supreme."