Conscious communication is a way of talking and listening that is focused on growing strong, mutually enriching relationships.
Since most relationship problems are rooted in communications that are either avoided, forced or misinterpreted, the purpose is to provide an emotional experience that allows each person to feel safe enough to grow a quality relationship in which key emotional needs (not wants…) are expressed, mutually valued – and met through natural giving.
(To give naturally, by the way, is to give from a place of overall love or joy, as opposed to fear or guilt or shame.)
When you express your self in ways that stretch you, particularly in moments where you may not “feel” like doing so, you exercise your ability to stretch and courageously develop the capacity to authentically love your self and another.
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Hello and thank you so much for this wonderful article. It has tremendous resonance for me personally right now and helped me suddenly realise all the non- constructive habits I have developed over twenty years of marriage. While recognising and implementing some of these more positive ways of communicating at various points in my life and reaping benefits from that, my problem lies in the fact that it is difficult to stimulate a similar move on the other side so to speak. With renewed motivatio n I am now trying again. So my question is how do I get my husband to read this article? Thanks again, Roberta
Hi
I truly enjoyed reading your article, and know that I will read it many more times again.
It is to the point, simple yet with a lot of depth clearly showing the mastery of the subject of communication.
Thank you Dr.
Fawzi