3 min
What You Feel, What You Need 4 Minute Meditations
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- Self-Improvement
Good morning and welcome to your seventy-first meditation. For a relationship to be successful it is important to focus on your needs and how you feel, rather than what the other person has done wrong or what they have failed to do. Rather than saying “you never do the dishes” or “you always interrupt me”, it is much more effective to say “I feel like the kitchen is a mess and I could really use some help” or “I really want to tell you this and I need you to let me say what I’ve got to say”. Framing things in terms of your needs and feelings as opposed to as criticism means that your partner is far less likely to get defensive, and therefore, is far more likely to actually listen, be empathic, and cooperate.
Good morning and welcome to your seventy-first meditation. For a relationship to be successful it is important to focus on your needs and how you feel, rather than what the other person has done wrong or what they have failed to do. Rather than saying “you never do the dishes” or “you always interrupt me”, it is much more effective to say “I feel like the kitchen is a mess and I could really use some help” or “I really want to tell you this and I need you to let me say what I’ve got to say”. Framing things in terms of your needs and feelings as opposed to as criticism means that your partner is far less likely to get defensive, and therefore, is far more likely to actually listen, be empathic, and cooperate.
3 min