{"id":77,"count":2,"description":"We are designed to connect, to have intimacy, to have pleasurable relationships.\u00a0 Most of us want understanding, empathy, compassion, and even validation.\u00a0 Compassionate relationships are possible.\r\n\r\nThese bite-sized videos and articles can help you have a more pleasurable life and relationship.\u00a0 When enough of our needs are met, we have pleasure.\u00a0 When they are not met, we have more displeasure or pain.\r\n\r\nWhile it is nice to understand these ideas in our head, intellectually, their power is to understand them in our being.\u00a0 That means sensing them in our bodies and feeling those emotions.\r\n\r\nIn everyday life, we can become so cut off from an awareness of our body and of our feelings.\u00a0 We are taught to stay in our heads, be logical.\u00a0 (That kind of intervention can create or utilize methods or strategies that create solutions before we know what the problem really is.)\r\n\r\nAt many times, we are in a rush.\u00a0 We can hurry by what is really going on.\u00a0 We are just barely able to notice what's happening on the surface.\r\n\r\nThese entries are kept short to help make them digestible.\u00a0 I'll try to keep the videos to be 3 to 5 minutes.\r\n\r\nWe learn a little at a time.\u00a0 Imagine if you adjusted your life just 1% a day.\u00a0 That's not much change in one day.\u00a0 However, after a year, even with some setbacks, imagine how much farther you'll be ahead.\r\n\r\nIf Max is counseling or coaching you, these will save you time during meetings because you'll have been exposed to key ideas.\u00a0 You can spend time practicing them, asking questions to fine tune their application, rather than learning these concepts.\r\n\r\nThese are \"soft\" skills that can create big changes.\u00a0 \u00a0They will give you information that you can apply.\u00a0 Their application will be a little like learning to ride a surf board in the ocean.\u00a0 Relationships are like being on the ocean.\u00a0 Some days, the water is really calm while, on other days, the water is turbulent and the waves are huge.\u00a0 With a little effort, you can stay on your board longer.","link":"https:\/\/maxcounselor.com\/wp1\/category\/compassionate-relationships\/","name":"Compassionate Relationships","slug":"compassionate-relationships","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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