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Entries Tagged 'Relationships' ↓
The Power Of Vulnerability
June 24th, 2009 — Empowerment, Relationships, Spirituality
How Do I Love Thee?
February 20th, 2009 — Empowerment, Relationships
Expressing Love as Affection
Affection, says Webster: a moderate feeling of emotion; tender attachment; fondness; the feeling aspect of consciousness
There’s more than hugs and kisses and saying I love to showing someone we care for them. We express our love in the ways that we express affection. Affection is the way we tell those we love that we are conscious of our attachment – and happy about it! Continue reading →
Tips on Making New Relationships Work
February 18th, 2009 — Empowerment, Relationships, Spirituality
I’ve received so many calls in the past few days about new relationships and Valentine’s Day disappointments that I realized it was time to share the advice I have seen come through my readings time and again… the biggest problem is that our fear buttons are so often triggered when we find someone we want to care about, and to have care about us… We want our new love to reassure us, we want to know how they feel about us and so we look for clues in their every action and reaction. … and we press for affirmations, validations – and yes, that dreaded word, commitment – far too soon. Don’t be in such a hurry to hear those all-important words, “I Love You” – or to say them. When love is proclaimed too soon, it is actually a warning signal!
There is something magical in a new connection that seems to send our common sense flying out the door. Continue reading →
Past Lives, Future Loves
December 10th, 2008 — Relationships, Spirituality
Past Loves often reappear in present time, or as future loves. Those we have loved or have loved us in other lifetimes reappear because of the bonds of trust that were established a way back when.
We tend to travel through lifetimes in groups, and to continue to evolve with those souls we have been connected with in the past. Old loves will reappear in some lifetimes to challenges us, and in others, to watch out over us where they can. The key to making each connection positive so that you both keep growing and evolving is to accept it as it is in present time… the past can explain why we feel so strongly, but it is in the present that we grow. Continue reading →
Love with a Perfect Stranger
August 26th, 2008 — Empowerment, Psychic Development, Relationships, Spirituality
Life offers us countless opportunities for love that we have been too frightened to accept. How do you summon the courage to break your conditioned patterns and let yourself love with reckless abandon?
By Jean-Claude Gerard Koven
When I was 19, there was nothing about love I didn’t know. I was like a religious zealot infused by the Holy Spirit, prepared to battle any force standing in the path of my (hormonal) convictions. The equation was deceptively simple: Love is all there is – and I wanted as much of it as I could get.
Then the sixties rolled in on a wave of psychedelic flower power. Volkswagen minivans festooned with multicolored daisies symbolized our new-felt freedom from the tyranny of the “thou-shalt-not” bible thumpers. We made love, not war, eagerly taking advantage of every available opportunity to express our Bacchanalian credo. Those were heady times of excess permissiveness that left millions of us nursing a lingering hangover.
We staggered out of the seventies on uncertain legs. America had weathered an extended period of high inflation liberally spiced with low economic growth and intermittent energy shortages. We were humiliated by the Iran hostage crisis and in dire need of a radical makeover. To many of us, Ronald Reagan and the conservative values he championed seemed to be the perfect antidote.
Love – at least as my generation knew it – got swept aside by his landslide victory. By the time the charismatic ex-California governor took office, I was deeply ensconced in yuppiedom, living in a large home in Connecticut. Much of my hormonal currency had already been spent and love’s earlier driving imperative downshifted into a more subtle gear. I began feeling uneasy in my own skin. Nothing seemed to make sense anymore. I felt like a robot programmed to live someone else’s life.
In my 44th year I finally reached my tipping point. I abruptly left my old life and hopped a plane to Australia where I discovered a rather unnerving fact: no matter how far or how fast I traveled, there I was. There was no way out of my conundrum except to allow myself to journey through it. At the time, I had no idea where to find the elusive grail that would finally lend direction to my rudderless existence. Continue reading →