Does Compassion Improve Your Romantic Relationship?

Does Compassion Improve Your Romantic Relationship?

Most of our relationships are a mix of love and anger, gain and loss, fear and fearlessness, or victory and defeat.

Is it possible to transform some of the hurt into something positive? Yes, it is possible. There is hope for more love, more joy, less fear in our hearts and mind. And, this increase in positive qualities will improve our romantic relationships as well.

When does love and compassion begin? On the outside, meaning from others or do these enriching qualities come from within ourselves first and then show up in the relationships we have?

In my experience, all positive or negative experiences begin in our own minds and emotional worlds first. If we have more love for ourselves, then our relationships can become filled with more love. The same is true with any quality. Love and compassion are first and foremost the best foundation for all relationships.

In the series, Awakening Compassion, Meditation Practice for Difficult Times Pema Chodron teaches us how to cultivate greater love and compassion as a skillful art. This is one of my favorite series on love and compassion that everyone can benefit from listening to again and again. No one ever teaches us how to love deliberately. But, the good news is that we can learn life changing skills which will bring us greater love, more joy, more fearlessness and deeper fulfillment.

For more than 800 years, Tibetan Buddhists such as the Dalai Lama and hundreds of thousands of monks, lamas and spiritual teachers have used the practice of lojong, or mind training, to transform difficulties into insights. Lojong training is grounded in a special meditation technique and complemented by 59 written maxims—a treasury of practical wisdom that inspires everyday awareness.

On Awakening Compassion, Pema Chödrön, one of the Western world’s best-known lojong teachers and practitioners, shows you how to use your own painful emotions as stepping stones to wisdom, compassion, and fearlessness.

In this enriching series, Awakening Compassion, Meditation Practice for Difficult Times, you will uncover how to make friends with the painful parts of your life experience and how to use your natural courage and honesty to transform even the most difficult situations.

With an informal teaching style, both playful and insightful, Pema Chödrön makes this timeless way of bringing compassion into the world easy to understand and apply to your own life. More than seven hours of practical, compassionate guidance for shedding your cocoon and meeting your world with fresh appreciation. Awakening Compassion, Meditation Practice for Difficult Times includes nine-page study guide with lojong slogans and additional resources.

Here are some of the high points in this life changing series:

* How to see your life freshly, clearly, and vividly
* Using the lojong slogans to cultivate your bravery
* The attitude of a bodhisattva, or fully awakened person
* Practical techniques for working with jealousy, resentment, and rage
* How to open your heart in even the most difficult situations
* On-the-spot practices for dealing with anger, jealousy, and fear
* How to change the habits that shut you off from those who love you most
* The secret of transforming conflict into genuine communication

This series contains 6 CD’s ( 7 hours, 30 minutes ) 1 Study guide ( 9 pages ).

Each of us can benefit from cultivating the inner skill to soften the difficult times, learn from those moments, grow from them and awaken greater compassion for ourselves. This compassion will extend outward into the lives of family, friends, strangers and will allow you to extend it even to your “enemies.” Anyone can benefit from these life changing teachings. This is a course in powerful self-esteem building.

To begin your journey of unfolding greater compassion, pick up a copy of Awakening Compassion, Meditation Practice for Difficult Times today by clicking here. Don’t miss any opportunity to gain a deeper love, compassion and fearlessness for yourself.

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