Learn to build healthy relationships

The relationships healthy are a source of joy and give you the momentum to keep going when things get tough. Generally, you focus on others and you will rarely stop to reflect on the quality of your interactions. A healthy relationship not only gives you happiness and support, but also motivates you toward personal growth. That's why, I want to share with you some of the keys to building and maintaining healthy relationships:

Self-awareness: the first step to healthy relationships

Know your emotions limits, values, and needs allows you to communicate effectively and establish relationships based on mutual respect. To understand you better, empatizas more deeply with others, a vital component in any healthy relationship. A person that recognizes your needs, you can name them in a clear manner, avoiding misunderstandings and resentments.

Effective communication: the key to mutual understanding

Communication is a mainstay in any healthy relationship. The ability to express openly and honestly about your thoughts and feelings, as well as the ability to actively listen, are fundamental. Effective communication helps to resolve conflicts in a constructive manner and to strengthen your bonds with others.

For example, two friends who discuss a misunderstanding of how calm and respectful manner, using assertive communication and empathic, they can resolve the conflict without harming your relationship. Another example is when a parent note that your teen is distressed by what you say and your body language. To address these non-verbal signs with sensitivity opens doors to a deeper communication and a relationship more intimate and nurturing.

Respect and empathy: ingredients for the harmony

Respect and empathy towards you begin with you, as only if you feel respect and understanding toward yourself, you'll be able to replicate it with others. Respect the limits, the opinions and emotions of others strengthens the links and creates an atmosphere of compression and mutual support. Everyone has their place. For this reason, couples who respect their individual differences and strive to understand the other's point of view they build a stronger relationship and enriching.

Independence and personal space: vital in the relationship

The relationships that do not allow a individual space to stifle and impede its members to realize what you need to on a personal level, and that they receive from other relationships, what they lack. The interdependent relationships, where each individual maintains its autonomy while sharing a significant connection with others, they are more balanced and satisfying.

For example, business partners, who keep their personal and professional interests separate, but work together effectively, they have a working relationship more productive and conflict-free. In a couple where they are allowed to feed on other links, such as friendships individual, you can enjoy greater wealth.

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Mutual growth: moving forward together

What doesn't grow, dies. Healthy relationships are composed of individuals that are ever-changing, growing and moving forward in the direction that they want. In a healthy relationship, both parties are motivated and support each other towards their personal and professional goals. This mutual support enhances the relationship and contributes to the individual development of each one.

A couple in which both members are encouraged to follow their passions and personal goals strengthens the relationship through respect and mutual support in their individual efforts. For example, if she wants to start a business, he can teach you tools of management that she not known him; if he wants to create a most muscular body, she will help you to avoid temptations that deviate from your goal.

Conflict management: turning challenges into opportunities

Instead of avoiding challenges, face them and work together to solve them strengthens the link and take the relationship to the next level of evolution. Learn to negotiate, compromise, and resolve disagreements in a constructive manner is key. Two coworkers who have different opinions on a project must find a creative solution that combines their ideas, thereby improving the outcome of the project and your working relationship.

The practice of gratitude in relationships

Gratitude opens the doors of heaven, in other words, it makes it that you receive the best of your relationships. For example, expressing gratitude to a colleague for their help on a project not only strengthens the employment relationship, but also fosters a positive work environment and collaborative. In a couple relationship, to be grateful helps you to recognize what you're getting, what benefit you and what gives you perspective when there are challenges to be overcome.

Promoting forgiveness and understanding

Forgiveness and understanding allow you to let go of what has already happened to continue building relationships with the best ingredients. This can be seen in a friendship where one has committed a mistake; the forgiveness based on the understanding of the context and the intentions reconstructs and strengthens this relationship, and when it is one that follows you and nourishing.

Building healthy relationships is an ongoing process that requires self-awareness, effective communication, respect, empathy, independence, mutual growth and proper management of conflicts. If you've realized that you need to work any of these aspects, I have two recommendations to support you:

• Read my book Toxic Relations to rid yourself of them transform with love. If you change, your relationships will as well; letting go of those that will drain and you'll have room for that nourish you, sustain and drive.

• Agenda an individual session to identify what you really lack and integrate the resources that will help you to improve your relationships. Enrich your life.

Remember that you are a being of light and you deserve to enjoy healthy relationships!