Todays Affirmation: FEELING FELT Communication is an essential ingredient for healthy and lasting relationships. Yet it is often a skill which is taken for granted and severely neglected. True communication is much deeper than rattling through every word which comes to our mind. True communication requires two people to interact from the center of their being. Struggling relationships often rely on manipulations, projections, and routine automatic conversations which might involve exchanging of words but never involves the opening of hearts. Beyond the words exchanged there needs to be a connection which helps two partners understand what is being felt by the other. The feelings of the partners often get lost in words which only vaguely resemble the feelings which they are trying to convey. Underneath many of our conversations is an underlying theme of “can I count on you to be there for me.” I try to remember this when my partner is speaking. Instead of just some quick response, or defensive reaction, I try to answer her bid for connection and safety. Open communication of the heart is essential to experience the beauty of a healthy relationship. It is a required ingredient for intimacy that we can offer our partner. The full healing power of connection is not by saying something which stings, but by warmly opening up to the whole experience of sharing another person’s feelings. It is the feeling of being felt which heals and binds two people together. ~Troy Flourishing Life Society
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:38:49 +0000
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