It is great to know how to dress your body, but it is more important to know how to ‘dress’ your heart in such a way that every day and every relationship contributes to the highest good for all parties involved.
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Big Amazing Love
Once you have experienced this love or know with all of your being it exists, you cannot settle for anything less; your spirit will not allow it. Fear cannot convince you. The panic of your loved ones cannot coerce you.
Read moreSay Something Saturday: Communication
“Use more than your words to express your adoration.”
Research by Dr. Albert Mehrabian concluded:
- 55% of communication is nonverbal
- 38% is tone
- and only 7% is verbal
Dr. Gary Chapman, author of the Five Love Languages series also teaches how people receive and express love in very different ways. Therefore, it is important to become multilingual in love because it is quite possible the individuals in your life speak a different love language (even siblings, spouse, children, friends, parents).
Today I encourage you to begin to think of ways to express your adoration using all of your senses. Become creative and use multiple senses at the same time. For example, for your spouse, verbalize your adoration while lightly running your fingers on a sensitive part of their skin while wearing a fragrance your spouse enjoys and sealing it with a cinnamon flavored kiss. Love can be expressed in many ways. – Misha N. Granado
Marriage Mondays: Love, The Ultimate Gift
Time is the gift we cannot return or stockpile for another date. All any of us has is this moment, this moment to express our adoration for each other and to nurture our relationships.
- Be present.
- Break the routine.
- Stop multi-tasking.
- Put down the gadgets.
- Make quality time a priority.
- Look at people when they are speaking with you.
- Stop taking each other (and your relationships) for granted.
- Begin to look at your love with new eyes and an open heart.
Before you know it, your children will become adults and begin creating a life of their own. Relationships change and in some cases may dissolve altogether. Career is great, but there is more to life and life will not pause and wait for you to live it (ask anyone who delayed something with someone only never to do it because of some unexpected event – death, health issues, etc.). Life is enhanced by our relationships and as such we should honor them and cherish them with our full hearts and being. Think about how different your life would be without the inclusion of these relationships. Unfortunately, many people do not recognize the value until it is gone (i.e. relationships, health, opportunities, etc.).
At Love Grows, our intention is that you begin to recognize and appreciate what you have in every moment. In the words of one of my favorite authors, teachers and therapists, Wayne Dyer – ‘Once you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.’ © - Misha N. Granado