How do we form a higher level of partnership?

Honesty

Be honest with yourself and with your partner. Many people feel they can't be honest, as they'll hurt their partner's feelings. The truth is that we'd much rather know, than be with someone who is vague in self preservation. I'd always suggest that if you can't be honest with yourself and stand by what you believe is true, you will never receive that in return from your partner.

Openness

Being openly you is the only reason you're here. Being open and forthcoming about your views, values, beliefs can only add to the beautiful vastness of this world, not take away from it. Knowing and being "self" can sometimes be clouded by someone else's opinions and the social condition we were born into, but fear not; as long as you're open with yourself, you'll always have access to your higher consciousness.

Ability to relate

Your level of ability to relate is the reason partners most often fight or disagree. Some of us are very selfishly focused and some of us are more externally oriented. Your ability to relate to another being is directly linked to your ability to relate to yourself; as much as you allow yourself, you'll allow others. Only from open allowing people to be themselves, can honest communication come forth and as a result the ability to relate with one another develops. 

Communication

If there's no communication, there's no relationship. Communication starts from the willingness to hear one another. Without willingness, there is no true communication, just two people speaking at one another. People communicate at different levels at different times, but in a context of partnership, I've found two different kinds of communication; the essential and the complementary. For the essential, we, as partners, may need to be a little flexible with our own time table and agenda. For the complimentary, there is no sense of urgency. 

Love; accepting your humanness

To have an etheric relationship with another is to link into the universal flow of love and acceptance. This is a different kind of relationship/partnership from the one we experience in the human life. Spiritual oneness is not associated with feelings, as the ability to feel only comes forth when we materialise in the human form. Spirit feels no right or wrong, in the spirit, it just is. The universal unconditional love and acceptance is a fact, which nothing can change, move or evolve. It's not stagnant either, it's just omnipresent. 

While no-one can always please their partner, it's good to accept the duality of the materialisation of our spiritual beingness in this life, and learn from one another, rather than stubbornly hold on to one's beliefs and learnt patterns. Remember; as long as we're humans, we will have needs that are either met by out partner or not.

Having needs does not mean being needy. The difference is that having needs enables growth and expansion, whereas being needy is suppressive.

Open your eyes, and your hearts to higher level of partnership. 

Much love,

M