Healthy Living for a Healthy Lifestyle
Pillar of Good Relationship
Stephen Lau
Pillar of Good Relationship
Stephen Lau
Maintaining good relationship is one of the seven pillars of wisdom on healthy living. To live in harmony within self as well as with others requires focusing on others' needs rather than one's own. Mindfulness is the key to any good relationship.
Copyright© by Stephen Lau
Copyright© by Stephen Lau
Obstacles to Any Good Relationship
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Stephen Lau
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Stephen Lau
One of the prerequisites of healthy living is harmony within self as well as with others. Disharmony causes distress, while harmony in any good relationship has salubrious impact on the emotional, spiritual, and physical health of an individual. Any good relationship requires mindfulness of others rather than self.
Why are there so many bad relationships? Why is human conflict so prevalent in our society?
There are many obstacles to any good relationship:
(1) Incomplete human knowledge: Human actions, especially negative ones, are based on knowledge of self and others, which is often inadequate. Many hardly know themselves. If they do not know their own emotional needs, how would you expect them to be mindful of the emotional needs of others?
Always be in mindfulness of the needs of others.
(2) Incorrect human perceptions: Human perceptions are based on attitudes, beliefs, and habits, which are often biased and distorted. Incorrect perceptions cause inappropriate reactions, and thus damaging any good relationship.
Always be in mindfulness of the possibility of one's perceptions being incorrect.
(3) Self-preoccupation: Our culture teaches us not only "self love" but also "self-esteem," which literally means esteeming "yourself." Self-preoccupation fosters the belief that "I am special" or reinforces the "mine-is-better" attitude. The result is that you whole-heartedly believe that your convictions do carry more weight than those of others.
Always be in mindfulness of one's self-centeredness.
(4) Right to express: The American society encourages the "right" to express oneself, including one's emotions. Instead of reigning in your negative emotions, you are entitled to give vent to your negative impulses - even at the expense of hurting others' feelings. This undisciplined emotion is failure to restrain negative impulses, which cause human conflict and destroy any good relationship.
Always be in mindfulness of one's undisciplined negative impulses.
Why are there so many bad relationships? Why is human conflict so prevalent in our society?
There are many obstacles to any good relationship:
(1) Incomplete human knowledge: Human actions, especially negative ones, are based on knowledge of self and others, which is often inadequate. Many hardly know themselves. If they do not know their own emotional needs, how would you expect them to be mindful of the emotional needs of others?
Always be in mindfulness of the needs of others.
(2) Incorrect human perceptions: Human perceptions are based on attitudes, beliefs, and habits, which are often biased and distorted. Incorrect perceptions cause inappropriate reactions, and thus damaging any good relationship.
Always be in mindfulness of the possibility of one's perceptions being incorrect.
(3) Self-preoccupation: Our culture teaches us not only "self love" but also "self-esteem," which literally means esteeming "yourself." Self-preoccupation fosters the belief that "I am special" or reinforces the "mine-is-better" attitude. The result is that you whole-heartedly believe that your convictions do carry more weight than those of others.
Always be in mindfulness of one's self-centeredness.
(4) Right to express: The American society encourages the "right" to express oneself, including one's emotions. Instead of reigning in your negative emotions, you are entitled to give vent to your negative impulses - even at the expense of hurting others' feelings. This undisciplined emotion is failure to restrain negative impulses, which cause human conflict and destroy any good relationship.
Always be in mindfulness of one's undisciplined negative impulses.
Relationship Advice
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Stephen Lau
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Stephen Lau
A good relationship always begins with "self" first.
A good relationship requires good relationship advice, such as the following:
(1) Be ready to be the first one to take the first step to enhance and improve good relationship. Have the wisdom of focusing on others rather than self. Deference to mindfulness of others first is good relationship advice.
Always be in mindfulness of others.
(2) Be grateful that you have the largesse of heart. You may be more blessed than others in that you have a greater capacity for mindfulness than others. Cicero, the great Roman orator, once said: "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but also the mother of all ther rest."
Always be grateful for your blessed gift of mindulness of others in your healthy living.
(3) Be positive of others. The great Chinese philosopher, Mencius, once said: "The feeling of compassion is the beginning of benevolence; the feeling of shame and self-reproach, the beginning of righteousness; the feeling of courtesy and modesty, the beginning of propriety; the feeling of right and wrong, the beginning of wisdom. These four beginnings are like the four limbs of man and to deny oneself any of these potentialities is to cripple oneself."
Always embrace mindfulness of the four beginnings of Mencius in your healthy living.
(4) Be pleasant. Cultivate and develop a cheerful demeanor, a pleasant outlook - the attitude that every problem in life has a solution of some sort.
Always demonstrate mindfulness of positive outlook in your healthy living
(5) Stop complaining. Keep all complaints to yourself - unless voicing your complaints will improve the situation.
Always resign in mindfulness of contentment in any trying situation.
(6) Try to see the good in others. Wherever possible, give them the benefit of the doubt.
Always be in mindfulness of others' behavior.
(7) Be mindful of your behavior towards others. According to C.S. Lewis, you may need to "put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are." In this way, you will be "really friendly than you were."
Always act in mindfulness towards others.
(8) Expect less of others. Never expect others to reciprocate; if they do, let that be a pleasant surprise.
Always expect no mindfulness from others in your healthy living.
Good relationship has to be cherished and nurtured before it can blossom.
A good relationship requires good relationship advice, such as the following:
(1) Be ready to be the first one to take the first step to enhance and improve good relationship. Have the wisdom of focusing on others rather than self. Deference to mindfulness of others first is good relationship advice.
Always be in mindfulness of others.
(2) Be grateful that you have the largesse of heart. You may be more blessed than others in that you have a greater capacity for mindfulness than others. Cicero, the great Roman orator, once said: "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but also the mother of all ther rest."
Always be grateful for your blessed gift of mindulness of others in your healthy living.
(3) Be positive of others. The great Chinese philosopher, Mencius, once said: "The feeling of compassion is the beginning of benevolence; the feeling of shame and self-reproach, the beginning of righteousness; the feeling of courtesy and modesty, the beginning of propriety; the feeling of right and wrong, the beginning of wisdom. These four beginnings are like the four limbs of man and to deny oneself any of these potentialities is to cripple oneself."
Always embrace mindfulness of the four beginnings of Mencius in your healthy living.
(4) Be pleasant. Cultivate and develop a cheerful demeanor, a pleasant outlook - the attitude that every problem in life has a solution of some sort.
Always demonstrate mindfulness of positive outlook in your healthy living
(5) Stop complaining. Keep all complaints to yourself - unless voicing your complaints will improve the situation.
Always resign in mindfulness of contentment in any trying situation.
(6) Try to see the good in others. Wherever possible, give them the benefit of the doubt.
Always be in mindfulness of others' behavior.
(7) Be mindful of your behavior towards others. According to C.S. Lewis, you may need to "put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are." In this way, you will be "really friendly than you were."
Always act in mindfulness towards others.
(8) Expect less of others. Never expect others to reciprocate; if they do, let that be a pleasant surprise.
Always expect no mindfulness from others in your healthy living.
Good relationship has to be cherished and nurtured before it can blossom.
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