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Life Mastery Skills Exercises
Relationships Exercise
Relationships Module
Life Mastery Skills Book
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The following interpersonal relationship exercises will assist you in experiencing and clearing away your fears about love and acceptance and help improve your interpersonal skills. They will also enable you to understand your concepts and beliefs about loving yourself and others.
As with all the Life Mastery Skills Exercises, it is highly recommended that you read (or listen to) the introduction first before starting the exercises.
Introduction to Relationship Skills Exercises
What are Interpersonal Skills
We all want to be loved and accepted. Each of us reaches for love and acceptance in our own way. Most of us hope to find love and acceptance in relationship. Some of us look for love and acceptance in a career. The less we love and accept ourselves the more we long to be loved and accepted by others.
We search our whole life looking for someone who will love and accept us. Most often we are disappointed. Either we discover we are not being loved and accepted in a way that satisfies us, or we begin to resent giving love and acceptance to the person we have chosen. Soon it becomes easier to find what is unacceptable about the other person than to remember what we loved about them.
If we look at this predicament clearly, we begin to understand that we are attempting to love and accept someone else, and get them to love and accept us, before we are willing to love and accept ourselves. This will never work because unconsciously our evaluator (inner judge) will look for what is wrong with us or our partner so we can reinforce our "core belief" that we are unworthy and not good enough to be loved and accepted as we are.
True love involves honesty, commitment freely given, communication, maturity and wisdom about ourselves. The degree we love, accept, and respect ourselves is exactly the degree we can feel these qualities for another. In order to develop our capacity to love and accept ourselves, we must be willing to be aware and to do self-inquiry. Self-inquiry will assist us in becoming aware of when and how our evaluator, our inner parent, is rejecting and judging us and others. Self-awareness will assist us in knowing if we are fighting back against this evaluator or compulsively reacting to its judgments. We must then put in whatever effort is required to change our addictive behavior. Our efforts must be consistent, and we must make it a priority in our lives. It is through self-effort that we will achieve our goals of love and acceptance.
Relationship Skills Exercises
These interpersonal relationship exercises give you insights into how you prevent yourself from attracting love and acceptance and help develop the essential elements of interpersonal communication. The benefits you derive from these exercises will be directly proportionate with the effort and priority you give them.
We recommend you start with the free relationships skills exercise first. A Relationships Skills Module is also provided containing further exercises for those who wish to delve deeper into developing their relationships skills. This module provides ten exercises for developing your relationship skills as well as a complete Glossary of Terms. It can be purchased at the Life Mastery Skills Bookstore for $5.00.
For those of you who wish to purchase all six modules (Communication, Relationships, Abundance, Self Esteem, Empowerment and Self Awareness) the "Life Mastery Skills" book is also available and can be purchased for $19.00 at the Bookstore (a savings of $11.00). The "Life Mastery Skills" book contains exercises for developing the most essential aspects of emotional intelligence and was created specifically to help each of us break free from our past and live a life of fulfillment, filled with love, power and success.
The instructions and links for the free exercise, purchasing the Relationships module and the "Life Mastery Skills" book are also provided at the top right side of this page.
Some of the exercises require writing, keeping a diary or drawing. For your convenience we are providing free downloadable journal paper.
Download Journal Paper - Unlined (for drawing and free-form notes)
DISCLAIMER: Should you have any reason to believe that you are not in a mental or emotional condition to begin the exercises provided on this website, you should seek the advice of a mental health professional to assist you in this decision. Additionally, should you choose to begin any of the exercises provided on this website, you may find that some of the exercises may cause unpleasant or uncomfortable feelings. If you feel confused or overwhelmed by your reactions to this material, it is recommended that you find a mental health professional to assist you in your journey towards self awareness.