Relationships with others
You and I live in constant interpersonal relationships that we should value and that we would like to keep. However, each of us is a different person, with his own needs and the right to meet them ...
Please read the following paragraphs and realize that you are narrating it to the people with whom you interact. Then DECIDE:
“When you have difficulties to solve your problems, I will try to listen to you cordially and help you, in order to find your own solutions, instead of relying on mine. In the same way, I will try to respect your right to choose your own ideas and to develop your own values, even if they are different from mine.
When your activity interferes with what I must do to meet my needs, I will communicate openly and honestly how your behavior affects me, trusting that you will understand me and help in whatever you can. In the same way, when some of my actions are unacceptable to you, I hope you will communicate your feelings with sincerity.
I will listen to you and try to change. On the occasions when we discover that neither of us can change his behavior to meet the needs of the other, let us recognize that we have a conflict that requires a solution.
Let us then commit ourselves to resolve each of these conflicts, without resorting to the use of power or authority to try to overcome at the expense of the other's defeat.
I respect your needs, but I also want you to respect mine. Let us always strive to find a solution that is acceptable to both. Your needs will be met and mine too. We will both win and neither will be defeated.
In this way, you can continue your development as a person by satisfying your needs and I can also do it; our relationship can be positive enough so that, in it, each one of us can strive to become what he is capable of, and we can continue to relate to each other with mutual respect, love and peace. ”
NOW, DECIDE TO PRACTICE THESE PHRASES DAILY PRACTICE WITH YOUR FAMILY, YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR WORKING COMPANIONS. THEY WILL HELP YOU FEEL BETTER AND YOU WILL MAKE YOUR ENVIRONMENT FEEL THE SAME WAY.
Please read the following paragraphs and realize that you are narrating it to the people with whom you interact. Then DECIDE:
“When you have difficulties to solve your problems, I will try to listen to you cordially and help you, in order to find your own solutions, instead of relying on mine. In the same way, I will try to respect your right to choose your own ideas and to develop your own values, even if they are different from mine.
When your activity interferes with what I must do to meet my needs, I will communicate openly and honestly how your behavior affects me, trusting that you will understand me and help in whatever you can. In the same way, when some of my actions are unacceptable to you, I hope you will communicate your feelings with sincerity.
I will listen to you and try to change. On the occasions when we discover that neither of us can change his behavior to meet the needs of the other, let us recognize that we have a conflict that requires a solution.
Let us then commit ourselves to resolve each of these conflicts, without resorting to the use of power or authority to try to overcome at the expense of the other's defeat.
I respect your needs, but I also want you to respect mine. Let us always strive to find a solution that is acceptable to both. Your needs will be met and mine too. We will both win and neither will be defeated.
In this way, you can continue your development as a person by satisfying your needs and I can also do it; our relationship can be positive enough so that, in it, each one of us can strive to become what he is capable of, and we can continue to relate to each other with mutual respect, love and peace. ”
NOW, DECIDE TO PRACTICE THESE PHRASES DAILY PRACTICE WITH YOUR FAMILY, YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR WORKING COMPANIONS. THEY WILL HELP YOU FEEL BETTER AND YOU WILL MAKE YOUR ENVIRONMENT FEEL THE SAME WAY.
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