Here's some unusual relationship advice you can use to re-ignite the romance in your partnership, save your marriage from the rocky road to ruin, or create something super special from the humdrum day-to-day routine of 'Mr & Mrs'.
1. The Thankful Art
If you feel your relationship is unfulfilling and leaves you a tad empty or downright hollow, the simple cure is to remember what you seek. You want to be full to overflowing with Love. So stop your grumbling, throw away that list of complaints about your partner and instead cultivate the grateful heart.
Wake up and think of 10 things you love (or could love) about your partner and that you are grateful for (or could be!).
Through the day, take the opportunity to thank your partner for any little things that he or she does (don't forget to appreciate the big things they say or do too!). Say, "Thank you sweetheart, I really appreciate... (whatever they did or said)" and express your gratitude and feel it from your heart.
Go to bed counting your blessings. It may sound trite but try it and you will be amazed at its effects on how you feel. Gratefulness will give your heart a 'great fullness' of Love and Joy.
2. Practice the Tao of Love
Taoists believe in the flow and interplay of opposite forces. Their chief aim is to become one all-inclusive consciousness able to go with the flow, completely free of all resistance. If you work with the paradigm that Life is a mirror, then all thing things that you dislike in your partner are simply reflections of those aspects of your deeper self that you have not yet learned to love and accept. Let go and become resistance-less. When you dislike a trait in another, for example 'being annoying', turn your focus within and say, "I love and accept myself even when I am being annoying. I love and accept that part of myself that feels like it needs to be annoying and attention-seeking." And imagine loving and hugging that needy part of yourself until it is no longer a sticking point for you. As you do this more and more, you will cease to experience that trait in your relationships with others. Or it simply will not bother you any more. You will have risen in love above it.
3. The Divinity Game
Play with the following ideas.... What if you weren't just an all-too-fallible human being? What if you were actually a 'spiritual being having a human experience'? What if you (the eternal consciousness You behind all the facade of personality and experience) are in fact God? And what if everything and everyone all around you is that omnipresent God too? How would you treat your partner differently if you thought they were actually God -- in disguise?
Bhakti Yoga practitioners act as if everything they do or say is in loving service of God. They treat others as if they are God. Imagine that! If you play the Divinity Game, you'll find it's an extraordinary way to transform all your relationships. Remember, playing this game, you are in relationship with God. How special are you!
Wonderful ways of Love
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