Successful Relationships Reading Corner
This week, we invited you to create peace in the world, one relationship at a time. Here are some of our posts on various aspects of peaceful relationships.
The Five Fundamentals of Peaceful Relationships “For the last few weeks, we have been writing about subtle aspects of peaceful relationships. It is now time to describe the five principles for creating peaceful relationships, of which these subtle aspects are a part. These are: Knowing and Sharing Your Core Values; Recognizing the Uniqueness of Every Individual; How to View and Interact with Differences; Finding Total Acceptance; A Process for Dealing with Decisions and Disagreements.”
Promoting Peace: What Can You Do to Make a Difference? “This feeling of peace is precisely that: a feeling, and until it is recognized and described and labeled, you won’t be aware of it, you won’t be able to cultivate it and nurture it, you won’t notice its presence or absence. Look at those moments in your life when you can rest without agitation; look at the different feelings that different people bring out in you. There are words for feelings and emotions that don’t exist in English, like hygge or zeitgeist. Some have made their way into English; some haven’t. By naming a feeling, it is that much more tangible, and the same applies to the feeling of peace.”
How to Create Peace in Relationships and Life by Knowing Your Core Values “Your core values are those upon which you base your life, your actions and decisions, even when you are not clearly aware of what they are. This can occur because values are often felt rather than thought, and as a result you may not have actually put them into words for yourself. And yet they are so critical to your life, inner peace, and all your relationships. A knowledge and understanding of what yours are can be a great tool for creating mutual solutions to disagreements and misunderstandings in your relationships, as well as finding a more fulfilling way of applying them to what you do and how you do it in your life.”