2010年9月28日星期二

Healthy Life with Positive Relationships

Different relationships bring about different life. We can have a beautiful life with positive relationships, positive relationships can let us make lots of friends, and surely, we can have a better life as we have more good friends in our life.

A vital relationship in my life just broken and I am going to forget it, I didn’t actually see how it was coming.  That result has sparked lots of thinking on relationships generally, and why I regard them as much as I do.  Having positive, productive relationships with my relatives and friends is an important thing to me in life. What I have come to more entirely know in recent times are the explanations why healthy relations with other people matter so much to me.

Optimistic, productive relationships demand the best of us. For a friendship or marriage to allow both people to flourish, each person is an active participant in helping create the other one’s positive future. Whether we are a friend, lover, daughter, or grandparent, each relationship gives us a chance to invest our energy in making another person’s reality better. Each of us needs to fully show up, be present, listen, express ourselves, and care for the other, and that requires time and attention.  When it all works out well, and we can see the happiness on the other’s face, that creates, at least for me, the best feeling of satisfaction in the world.

Relationships teach us about ourselves. Sometimes, for good or bad, the person standing in front of us can be a mirror showing us who we really are. If we don’t like something in them, there are chances we don’t like it in ourselves. Friendships also give us a chance to watch ourselves in action. We can, on a moment-to-moment basis, pay attention to what we are thinking, feeling, or doing in response to what is happening externally. We can plug into our life story anytime, and learn from it.

Best of all, we get a chance everyday to practice acting from love. This goes beyond doing something nice for someone. Acting from love requires us to recognize the times when fear arises within us, and work to overcome it so we don’t choose a course of action from a fearful place. That takes awareness, hard work, and courage, but in those moments, when we choose love, we grow as human beings.
For me, keeping these things at heart could have been extremely strong. It has propelled me to reconnect on an even deeper level with a few of the people I am close with on this world. I have been full of gratefulness every pace of the way, and my mind is open as I move forward. What would you do in making these relationships the strongest they might be?

I mainly value dependability and positivity in my relationships. What do I do in making these relationships be the strongest they might be? I practice what I preach (behave dependably and positively) and I allow people know what I appreciate about them as often as possible. I have three teenagers, and I have found that our relationships have grown stronger when I allow them to be who they are and they do the same for me. We really value and appreciate each other.

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