Help With Marriage Problems
Do you and your spouse find yourselves "keeping score" about who gives more? Do you find yourself arguing angrily in order to establish who is right and who is wrong? Are you filled with resentment because you feel you aren't getting what you need from your marriage? Roy Masters believes you can solve your marital problems with as little as 20 minutes a day of his special type of meditation.
Masters' "Be Still and Know" technique has little in common with Eastern forms of meditation. He says a more accurate term for it is "observation exercise." Eastern meditation uses a mantra, a focus on breathing or another technique that essentially amounts to self-hypnosis, blanking out worries and covering over concerns. "Be Still and Know" directs you to observe your emotions and concerns, without judgment.
Practicing this non-emotional acceptance allows you to remove the judgment and blame from your relationship. Masters counsels couples to practice patience, and to give without expecting anything in return. The goal is to free yourself from mistaken concepts of love, which are in fact only means to feed your ego.
Selflessness and rationality can replace strife and conflict. A first step is simply not to respond to behavior you perceive as threatening, hostile or angry. Observe it, then let it go, without judgment or resentment. Once you have attained this state of rationality, the negative emotions of worry, stress and anger will disappear, and true love, rather than ego needs, will blossom.
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