Description
Book SynopsisCreating and sustaining a vibrant relationship is one of the most difficult challenges we come across in our lives. But when we do succeed, it is the source of a truly deep and lasting happiness. To succeed, we need some tools to help us on our way.The subject of this book is the Dialogue of Acknowledgement, an extremely efficient and loving tool that can help people come to grips with problems as well as form the basis for a new way of living and ethical practice, both within the couple and in all other relationships in life.This book hopes to introduce the reader to a way to a shared life of openness, curiosity, acknowledgement, appreciation, and recognition and help them to learn how to converse and listen so that it will be possible for you to explore yourselves and each other in new ways.
Trade ReviewThere is no quick and easy way to a mature, strong, and mindful relationship. The journey consists of small steps towards creating increasing confidence for each other as you learn to counter your old habits, survival strategies, and seemingly uncontrollable emotions. Experiencing the way differences can be enriching and not just threatening for your relationship is also part of the processes described in this book. The Vibrant Relationship is not just a book that promotes marriage or relationship per se. It is an optimistic book about new opportunities which are just within our reach - if we make a little effort.
Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Foreword -- Part -- Introduction -- It is Never Too Late to Have a Good Relationship -- Why Do We Get Lost in Love? -- The Evolutionary Spiral of Relationships -- What are You Carrying in Your Baggage? -- The Ability to Love is Formed During Infancy -- Exercises -- Your Brain is a Partner as Well as an Opponent -- How about Tonight, Darling? -- Part 2 -- Pathways to the Vibrant Relationship -- Conflicts are Pure Gold -- Before the Dialogue of Acknowledgement -- The Dialogue of Acknowledgement Step by Step -- New Ways of Being -- New Steps – For the Rest of Our Lives -- Our Life Together -- The Realtionship Therapy Centre
