Here are some other posts that talk about the role of intention towards peace in your relationship.
How conscious intention can lead to peace in your relationship “When you’re wary or defensive, reacting from long-implanted triggers, you’re already hindering the exchange. In your partnership and friendship, you hopefully share core values, and while each other’s actions and words may seem quite different, they reflect each other’s unique qualities, rather than true conflict. So how can you help upset feelings or upset feelings. This reflects your decisions about your reactions and attitudes, if you align yourself with your choices. A way to align, the more you reflect on your choice. That choice, in its most basic way, rests on its head among the many manifestations that come from love or fear, and when this is the underlying driver of your responses, it always leads to feelings of mistrust, separation, and often violence.”
Why setting an intention for peace in your relationship is important “As this intention project works worldwide, many of us have many practices that bring the intention of peace into our daily lives: some meditate regularly, some write intentions in a journal, and some express gratitude every morning. These help manifest our intentions. Great quotes with which to start each day in a peaceful frame:
It’s a wonderful day. I have not seen this one before. – Maya Angelou
It’s morning, and again I’m the lucky person who has it. – Mary Oliver
This need for global peace intentions, as well as for our individual selves, carries the same importance in our relationships. Whether you’re starting a new relationship or looking to improve a long-standing relationship, make an intention to initiate peaceful loving interactions. And yet, people often do not see this as realistic and fall into various habitual patterns of behavior. The good news is it’s not too late. With the awareness that there are better possibilities, you can start applying peace intentions to your relationship at any time. It starts with the other person acknowledging who they are. They choose what they do and what they say. You should not interfere with it. (You’ve probably learned that you can’t change people, anyway.) You don’t have to like it. The work starts from here. Does that dislike come from within you, or is it something truly unacceptable about the other person? It’s certainly possible, although unlikely because most people are doing the best they can.”
How to build a peaceful relationship in a world that says it’s impossible “Peace is a choice, like peaceful relationships. It occurred to me this morning that, in the same sense, peace is an action. Being at peace and bringing it into your relationship takes action. It starts with intention and trust. Wanting to be peaceful, wanting to establish peaceful relationships and creating and maintaining them. It can be a challenge that you can have a peaceful relationship and they can have a relationship with you. Society encourages the opposite view that conflict is inevitable and my experience is that, when core values Shared, then there is a path to mutual resolution that does not involve conflict, isolation or distance. This means working on my own inner peace, being aware of the love that surrounds me, whoever it is, from this direct experience and search for it, I can take the most steps in my relationship. Truly being with another person involves awareness of the person, interest in them and paying attention to me and my presence, paying attention to them without fear or defensiveness.
Originally published https://philandmaude.substack.com.
