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_______________________________________________________ Creating a loving relationship doesn't have to be as hard as you might think! _______________________________________________________
Discover the things you might need to change in yourself in order to have a chance at creating change in your partner and in your relationship. ________________________________________ How much energy do you spend trying to get what you want from your partner? Think about it for a moment - how much of your thinking time is spent on what to say to your partner to get him or her to be the way you want?
In your daily life, are you guided by fear or by love? What are the fears that block being loving to yourself and others? How often is the question, "What is loving to myself and others - what is in my highest good and the highest good of another?" the question that guides your actions? Is there something in the way of you asking this question? What is the fear that gets in the way of loving yourself?
________________________________________ Is convenience bringing you fulfillment and joy? ________________________________________ How did we get so deeply into instant gratification? How did we get so far away from receiving satisfaction from doing things that take some time? A good example of this is food. Fast food restaurants would never have flourished if people weren't addicted to convenience. What happened to the satisfaction of preparing delicious food from scratch?
________________________________________ Discover that self-love and narcissism are actually opposites! ________________________________________ It's interesting to me how often people confuse self-love with narcissism – because they are actually opposites in many ways.
What happens in your relationships when you try to get your point across to someone who isn't open to your point of view? ________________________________________ One of the situations that often creates relationship conflict is when you become devoted to getting your point across. Most of us love to be heard and understood. It feels great when someone important to us really understands things from our point of view.
Are you asking your higher self for the loving action and not receiving answers? Ernie was having trouble accessing his higher self. He wanted to know about the loving action toward himself, but he couldn't seem to receive any answers. Because his inner child often felt abandoned and unloved due to the lack of loving action, Ernie often felt disconnected and depressed.
___________________________________________________________________Do you have the courage to do the things you are afraid of, or do you allow fear to stop you? ___________________________________________________________________ "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." ~Nelson Mandela "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." ~Muhammad Ali
________________________________________ Heal your inner cult with the Six Steps of Inner Bonding. _______________________________________ What do you picture when you think of the word 'cult?' For me, what comes to mind is being involved in a community where you have to follow certain rules and do things a certain way, and where you might be severely punished or even killed (as happened with the Jim Jones cult in Jonestown, or satanic cults ). You are often not allowed to leave a cult, and if you do manage to leave, there might be dire consequences.
_______________________________________________________ We want to be able to trust others to be honest and reliable. Yet are you honest and reliable with yourself? Do you trust your own inner knowing? You will not be able to trust others until you are trustworthy with yourself. _______________________________________________________ "I have a hard time trusting people." "I never feel like I can trust my husband (or wife)."
Discover the many good reasons for having animals in your life. “Until a person has loved an animal a part of the soul remains unawakened." ~Anatole France People who love animals know that there are many very good reasons to have animals in your life.
There are a lot of us that spend too much time worrying. According to The National Institute on Mental Health, approximately 40 million American adults ages 18 and older, or about 18.1 percent of people in this age group in a given year, have an anxiety disorder. Anxiety prevents us from being happy, can cause physical ailments, and keeps us from taking healthy risks that may improve the quality of our lives.nnWorry may be a trait that is passed on genetically from your famil
Sometimes youâre not nice and, for whatever reason, you canât go back and apologize to people for having been mean, malicious, or unkind to them. The main thing to realize is that feeling guilty will only delay and obstruct the lessons and practices of becoming a nicer person. It seems and feels better to recognize that you blew it and vow to make it right for the next person you come into contact with by âpaying it forward.ânnIn her wonderful book, Pay It Forward, Ca
Whatâs playing on your inner TV? Your inner TV is the screen in your mind upon which you create various scenarios. Perhaps the channel is âReliving the Past.â Maybe itâs âControlling the Future.â Is your channel on âObsessive Thinkingâ where you are ruminating over and over about a situation or about how you want to handle something? nnOur mind tends to go on and on making up stuff, as if what it is thinking is always the truth. However, the mind has been deep