Relationships That Last Forever: The Single, The One and The Many

 Whether we're in a committed relationship or not, there is no getting away from the fact that the quality of our past and present relationships creates an environment where we are stunted or thriving.

As individuals, we benefit from yoga, meditation, therapy and lots of personal growth work. We're healing and evolving personally but what about the quality of our relatedness? Do we really feel 'met and seen' by our inner circle? Do we feel supported to reach for our best? Are the relationships we live in creative and renewing or predictable and stale?

We can learn to cultivate authentic, exciting, connected relationships that push us to the edge of what it means to awaken ourselves, our friends, our workplace and our culture. It may be with some of your circle and not others. You may need to find some new friends with a shared interest in growing to new heights.

When we come into any relationship from heart and soul, as I and Thou, and really listen and really talk to one another; we enter into a sacred marriage with the One anyway. All relationship is spiritual when you commit to helping each other walk that path. This is how the Namaste Culture thrives.

 If you want to experience this for yourself, join us for our upcoming workshop HEART AND SOUL: The New Face of Relationship.

HEART AND SOUL

The I – Thou Paradigm To Intimate Relationships

 One of our biggest relationship roadblocks is that we tend to relate to each other from need, rather than from love. We form our relational patterns early and we get locked into expectations around getting our needs met by another. Soon, we begin seeing the other person as an object that either does or does not fulfill our needs.

It doesn't have to be this way. One of the most exciting forms of relationship is when we meet as the authentic, evolving mysteries we truly are. The second we define someone, they're dead to us-no more surprises. When we both show up fully present, aligned with Source in ourselves and appreciating the other's roots in that same Source, a new foundation for relationship opens up. This is what the philosopher Martin Buber spoke of as the “I/Thou Relationship”.

The I/Thou opens up a whole new field of energy. It's a creative, peaceful, exciting and profound space. No matter what has gone on between you before, this space is baggage-less and free. Your personal gripes and insecurities still exist but they become inconsequential. You have nothing to hide or be ashamed of in this forgiving fresh air of Truth. You can see beyond all the issues into the heart and soul of the other and you see that One Love manifesting as this other person and as you.

Sacred marriage is when you commit to wedding yourself to the One. Relationship as a spiritual path is when you agree to help each other walk that path. Intimacy is the space that opens between you that says “there is nothing that I will hold separate from the One”. When we show up whole in this I/Thou space, love continually ignites creativity. This is when you know, it's so much bigger than the relationship. This is when you start to experience the cosmos evolving through you.

Does this mean that singles can't experience it? Of course not! In our next post, we'll talk about what you can do if you're not in relationship. If you want to experience this first hand, join us at our upcoming workshop: HEART AND SOUL:The New Face of Relationship. Here's the link:      Heart And Soul