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Wednesday, 26 December 2012

How To Fall In Love All Over Again!

Don't let negative emotions ruin your relationship!

Take a deep breath, close your eyes, and take yourself back to the very first time you experienced a feeling of love with the person you're in a relationship with now. Allow yourself to re-experience the emotions, the sights, the sounds, the tastes and the smells you first experienced ... just as if it is happening again right now. 

Stay there for a moment and allow yourself to feel where in your body you first felt that emotional feeling of love. Is it in your heart? Is it in your head?  Is it on your lips? Focus on what your mind was focused on then. Is it the feeling of your heart pounding? Is it how you just seem to melt as your bodies fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle?
Notice how good it feels to be emotionally present with the one you love. What questions run through your mind? Did you find yourself asking, 'Is this what love feels like? Will this feeling last? Is it really possible to fall in love again?'

Did you find it easy to take yourself back and re-experience that falling in love feeling again? Has it been a while since you felt that feeling of love? Which emotions have you been feeling instead? Fear? Guilt? Anger? Anxiety? Jealousy? Frustration? Resentment? Disappointment? 
Do you frequently initiate conversations and interactions in a negative emotional state? Or, are you the one dodging the toxic emotions as they are launched at you by the one you love? Has it happened so often for so long that it's just too difficult to tell? Are you concerned that your love and your relationship are being destroyed as a result? 

Our emotions are like most things. They're not bad, except in excess. It is natural to experience anger, fear, anxiety, disappointment, resentment, judgment, and guilt ... on occasion. However, negative emotions become all-consuming, toxic, and devastating to our emotional health and our intimate relationships if we fail to deal with them effectively.

Step 1
Take personal responsibility for your emotions. Blaming someone else for your emotions, how you feel, or the emotional state of your relationship isn't the responsible thing to do.

Step 2
Shift your focus, your emotions and emotional state by making a conscious decision to focus on what you love, appreciate and are grateful for about your relationship. Make a list of your top 10 relationship moments. Keep your list with you at all times. Make it a habit to take 10 minutes each day for a mental vacation to one of your top 10 relationship moments.
Allow yourself to re-experience all the positive feelings you initially experienced in it. Your brain can't tell the difference between a real experience and a memory and will release all your "feel-good hormones" as if you are really there in that moment. Notice how much more positive you begin to feel the more you practice this ritual. It's absolutely true that what you focus on you feel and get more of!

Step 3: After you've done steps one and two faithfully for at least 30 days, re-read this article and be notice how much easier it is to feel that falling in love feeling again and again.


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