I mean, the only thing between you and that state of despair is your pride and surely love is better for one day than pride for a lifetime?
"NOTHING IS IN THE WAY, ONLY ON THE WAY. Yes, that's the way to think about relationships.
You can control 50% of your life. Choose which 50% carefully. All people can only control 50% of their life but they don't know which 50% they value controlling. So they end up trying to control all their life which is impossible. It's called half hearted living. Do you want half hearted life? I doubt it and if you do, stop reading this article now.
You want to put your whole heart into what you do because there are no half hearted success stories. So, sometimes you have to control your wealth but let go control at home. It depends on your values doesn't it.
NEVER GIVE 100%
The reason people get in a mess with love and relationships is that they think that a relationship is the be all and end all of life. Most people who admire love and relationships are depressed, like RUMI and Romeo. They weren't happy. All their life (and poetry) was spent moaning that they couldn't enjoy themselves without love and relationships. Gosh, there's a whole world out there to love.
Relationships don't solve problems. They actually bring problems to the surface, sort of make them worse. Relationships magnify problems. They feed on them. Sometimes people hope that their love and relationship will solve problems. It's very seductive. I will solve all your problems and make your dreams come true, the sex is great and the promise is fabulous. Relationships promise to will solve problems but they don't. The closest a relationship gets to solving a problem is that it makes having a problem less intense because it feels like there's a second person going in to bat for you in life. But in my experience, even that has its limits.
The other reason people get into a mess in relationships is that they put too much mush into them. If you divide life into seven equal parts like: career, money, health, intelligence, friends, self and relationship you get a rough idea about the real context of relationship. A relationship is not life, love is. And you can't love one person and hate another. 99% of relationship failure is caused by unresolved judgements about someone in the past, or their sister's past or their brother's past or their parent's. They grind that axe and hold onto all sorts of distaste so then they can't love that in their current partner either. Remember that every person has every trait. It's like sucking a dog poo lolly while kissing a prince. It's going to make a difference. The taste alone of a judgement or hate that's dragging itself through a person's life becomes permanent. They taste crap even when they meet their soul mate. So, smart thing would be to use mouthwash. Process dirty laundry from the past, emotional baggage and really turn up.
This is what makes the difference for me.
I value that life is a journey and even pain is important to teach and guide us. My pain has a purpose and so, when I have it, I let all the pain in and don't hold onto anything. Sometimes I've gone for help to finish a discard form, other times I've been through a ream of paper, 400 sheets of paper, listing the discard. For me, opening my heart again to love each day is a big value. I make sure there are no grudges or regrets about anything in my life. By doing this, I learn more about myself, my work, my life, my people, my human nature in six minutes than a meditator learns in a lifetime.
Pains and challenges don't get easier, but they do get shorter. My first heartbreak heart took 3 years to deal with, the last one, 3 hours. Yes, I'm good at the forms, but I do practice between performances, I do them regularly on little things so I'm confident on the big things.
So, here's the rub about love and life from my viewpoint.
You can't go wrong. You can't go wrong trying. You can only go wrong half trying.
If you are in doubt pull out.
If you are being safe, or self protective, or cautious in love, it's over.
There is no half.
You and your baggage come into the relationship boots and all. Otherwise it's a joke, and you'll be the punch line.
Give all and if it ends cop it sweet, right in the heart.
Love your ex, unconditionally.
A few hints on being confident and putting 100% of your heart into a relationship.
If you are in doubt pull out.
If you are being safe, or self protective, or cautious in love, it's over.
There is no half.
You and your baggage come into the relationship boots and all. Otherwise it's a joke, and you'll be the punch line.
Give all and if it ends cop it sweet, right in the heart.
Love your ex, unconditionally.
A few hints on being confident and putting 100% of your heart into a relationship.
Create a routine that works for you as if you are single or as if you were single and do not change one molecule of it when you are double except you might swap out going to the pub with friends for a date night.
Compromise kills love and therefore relationships. You get to know yourself you keep doing those things that make you a good you even when you are in a relationship.
Focus on love in the other six areas of life as well as relationship. It's the overloading of relationship with too much pressure to create happiness that causes their failure.
Focus on fulfilment and be fulfilled when you enter a relationship - don't burden your relationship with the job of making you happy. The purpose of relationships is not happiness, and, happiness is like an Ogre, always hungry, never satisfied. Turn up in your relationship already fulfilled - then your relationship can last a lifetime.
Don't focus on trying to please your partner all the time, you might be making a huge mistake.
Don't wish for or start looking for someone with the same values as you. Someone who is pleased by the same things as you. That notion is so self-destructive. That's a bitter pill. No mouthwash can kill the flavour of being a disappointed lover. If you think the essence of a great relationship is finding someone who wants what you want and thinks like you think about work and life, you will be hurting forever. No need for that.
Be True to Yourself
Remember that there's only one person on earth who thinks like you, who wants what you want and who needs what you need in the quantities that you need. And that person is you. If you think you found a like minded soul, this is possible but if you think that they will want what you want in the order you want it in, think again. Anyone who gives you the impression that they want what you want in the order you want it, is tricking, seducing and manipulating you by making things easy. They are just making you happy so you surrender to them.
Trust nature, if two people are the same, one of them isn't necessary. If you do find an exact replica, a person who thinks like you, resonates with you, walks and talks like you and wants what you want, then wear a hard hat because they will soon ask you to change.
All relationships are based on differences.
If there are seven areas of life, and your priorities are spiritual, mental and financial in that order, you can bet everything you own that their bottom three priorities will be financial, mental and spiritual in that order. This is how nature works. It's not wrong. Deep down, the human spirit is non complaint. Only on the surface can we cause another person to subjugate their values. Deep down, intrinsically, we are all very powerful.
BE REAL
There are two sides to everyone. So, know the negatives and the positives of everyone and simply focus on the good news. That's romantic. That's seduction. It means "to please. " So we seduce each other by focussing on what works, not criticising the 50% that doesn't work. If you think you are without that 50/50 balance of positive and negative, go interview your ex partner, your kids or parents. They'll give it to you with both barrels.
If your expectations of a partner are anything other than 50/50 positive negative then you are fantasising and this is great short term but eventually it'll hurt you and them. You do what you can to seduce your date, but really, it's an act. Deeply, you could if you chose, focus on the bad news or the good news. If you want a good home, be diligent, know the balance, focus on the good news.
People want their long term needs met.
Seduce means to give others what they want, and it will be very different to what you'd want if you were them. And this is why relationships are so challenging. While you are getting seduced you dream that this getting, this satisfaction is going to last forever. But your needs will expand and their needs will expand and you'll eventually feel that your needs are not being met in some area. And then there's a test.
Now what? Now that you find you've married someone who wants things you don't want, what are you going to do? You know this is inevitable so do you get single while in a relationship, and just self-gratify, hoping to one day meet your perfect self in another person, or do you realise that by giving to your lover what they want they give to you what you want?
Are you one of the people who get into relationships with enthusiasm and then spend the rest of the time you are in it thinking about whether you made the right choice? This is human, but you need to shut that down by looking around at other people going, "my goodness, my partner has that but in a different form, my partner is therefore better, they are perfect. "
Confusion or Clarity
Western ideology means we want what we haven't got, so, when you are with one person (relationship) you want to be with the many (single) and when you are with the many (single) you want one (relationship)... in other words when you are single being double looks brilliant and when you are double being single looks like nirvana.
That's the epitome of western ideology. We want what we haven't got. It's the driving force of the consumer society, our culture, our religions... simply we are conditioned to "want what we haven't got. " And this presents an dilemma for those who love the commercial world of business. If business success comes from wanting what you haven't got, then are you doomed to continual dissatisfaction in relationship?
The whole business and financial model of the world runs on "wanting what we haven't got - consumerism" even in Maoist countries it's what feeds people. But at home, in love and relationship maybe the opposite works better.
In love "I need nothing, I want nothing and therefore I have everything" the Eastern model of want what you've got, is best.
I teach clients who have been in long term relationships a great game. Would you like to read about that? If so read on:
So, here's the rub about Eastern thinking in a Western relationship. Lets say you are a woman, 29 and feel very beautiful in your clothes and body and work and life and you are dating a short fat man who has no money, smelly armpits, a hairy chest and eats like a pig on heat. So, you look up from your meal and there he is with food down his shirt, spaghetti on his bald head and snot dripping from his nose. He is making a grunting sound and his knife and fork haven't left the napkin. His hands are up to their elbows in tomato sauce and he is on the phone talking to his ex. You look just past him and there is Brad Pitt. You slide off the chair in bliss. Your mind drifts and you are no longer at the table with short, fat, bald man you have left your body at the table and are sitting on Brad's knee and he's happy to see you if you know what I mean. So, now you want what you haven't got right?
And in Western life, that's unhappiness, dissatisfaction, lost interest, doubt, unromantic, heart closed, argument coming, gee I wish I wasn't stuck in this horrible relationship thinking. Yes?
Here's the genius for dealing with wanting what you haven't got in a relationship (sabotage)
Imagine that there's a competition and your child is in a race. Your kid is not the greatest runner, so they always lose. At the end they come up to you crying because they lost the race so what do you say to them? You find something to celebrate like "well, you didn't come first but you were the best starter, or you didn't win the running race but you went faster than you've done before or you looked great or tried hardest" Somehow you extract a take away from the event that proves an amazing universal truth. In every competition, everyone is a winner. That's a universal law, not a platitude.
In nature, nothing is missing. So, although you might be looking across the table at Mr Piggy and looking past him to Brad Pitt, in nature's eyes, they are equal. There is nothing Brad Pitt has got that your partner hasn't. The only question is "what form?" Now, before we get into that I want to make a point clear. To compare your partner with other potential candidates is human. To have questions and see other attractive people is human. Even wearing one of those "Ned Kelly" helmets as some religions do to prevent people being attracted to them, is not going to prevent it. We compare, life is, nature is, competitive.
Apply that to business or sport and you are a winner. Apply it to relationship and you will be a loser. Don't get messed up thinking you need to be Eastern in everything or you'll end up half engaged in work and half engaged at home. You need to be diverse, open and have both. Apply the Western model of "I want what I haven't got" to your work and sport and apply the Eastern model of "I want what I've got" to your relationship and health.
If I can be of any help in this please book a guidance session, a consult or a business seminar...
With Spirit
Chris
Innerwealth < http://www.innerwealth.com > is a real life, everyday, raw and nature based awareness that helps people live from the inside out. It opens hearts from past challenges, frees vision, inspiration and life purpose and gives rise to true human potential in all the seven areas of life. Innerwealth is also a process, a process that helps people deal with everyday challenges, tap their intuitive nature and live, in a sense, guided from within. A leaders edge, a lovers heart. There are twenty books in the Innerwealth Series, including Sacred Love and Innerwealth, plus "the Laws of Nature for Better Relationships" weekly blogs and podcasts. Chris Walker also runs consultations, interventions and seminars on Innerwealth at work and at home. < http://www.innerwealth.com >
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