Is your relationship with your significant other, mother, father, or friend making you sick? Believe it or not, there’s scientific evidence to suggest that our relationships can actually contribute to illness. Therefore, in order to achieve a healthy life, it is important to make our relationships healthy.

There have been studies to suggest that people who are married often tend to live longer. Experts reason that marriage provides a nurturing environment for individuals, enabling them to better fight off disease. The support of a loving spouse can make all the difference in the world, especially when one is facing a serious illness.

Maintaining healthy relationships can help to lower our stress. Stress is considered to be an important contributing factor for illness. By improving our relationships with other people–particularly with family members–we can cut down on the stress which can sap our strength, making it difficult for us to ward off infections.

But it is not enough to know that healthy relationships can make us healthier. It is also critically important to know exactly how we can ensure that our relationships are healthy. Psychologists contend that the key ingredient of a healthy relationship is communication. Unless we feel safe to communicate our feelings, we will be unable to thrive in our relationships. If you don’t like to confront people, you might find it more difficult to communicate. Therefore, you must learn effective communication skills.

Before you can communicate in your relationships, you must know your goals and desires. In other words, you have to know what you want before you can articulate it to another person. You should try to keep an open mind, listening carefully to what the other person has to say. If you are bothered by a person’s behavior, try to avoid saying something like, “You are always late.” Instead, say something to the effect that, “When you are out and I don’t hear back from you, I worry.” That way, you are telling the other person how his or her behavior makes you feel. It is also vitally important that you admit your mistakes and apologize for them. Such a simple action shows that you are really concerned about the other person’s feelings.

Healthy relationships also depend upon setting limits for yourself, and respecting the limits of other people. You should never tolerate abuse in a relationship, whether it is emotional abuse or physical abuse. At the first warning signs, you should seek distance from the abuser. Such distance is critical for your emotional well-being and long-term health.
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Acupuncture is a healing modality which has been used for 4000 years.

The Energy Channels of the body have been mapped for that time and scientifically, the points on the meridians have a much higher electrical resistance than the surrounding tissue. As yet, science has not been able to explain this but scientifically, empirically, the evidence exists!!

Acupuncture explains that health problems start with what are called energy blockages. These Energy Blockages exist at least 6 months before there is any disease!!

The Theory of Acupuncture Diagnosis, Five Element Traditional Chinese Medicine, says that each Energy Meridian in the human body corresponds to one of the 5 Elements, and each Energy Blockage also creates a Negative Emotion corresponding to the Element of the Meridian.

If you look at the 5 Elements in the diagram of the Shen and Ko (Kundalini) cycle, a circular diagram, you will see that the table below joins up, top and bottom.

Remove the Energy Blockages with advanced techniques of Meditation and slowly even more of the selfish, competitive ego is removed releasing all the incredible potential of a normal human being, as the last blockage goes, enlightenment itself is sure to follow.

Finally, the Ancient Acupuncture Treatment to remove “The Seven Dragons and the Seven Internal Demons”, which you can receive from any practitioner of Traditional Acupuncture, is a wonderful treatment to get rid of the simplest of the Energy Blockages, but Advanced Meditational Techniques are really needed to remove those blockages which are deeper and more intense.

If you have an energy blockage on one of the energy meridians of the body, you will have a negative emotion whose intensity depends on the density of the energy blockage.

The Five Elements, Negative Emotion caused by the Energy Blockage

1. Wood meridians, Irritation and Anger 2. Fire Meridians, Manic 3. Earth Meridians, Needing to give Sympathy and Attention to support ego or Constantly Seeking Sympathy and Attention 4. Metal or Air Meridians, Depression and Sadness 5. Water Meridians, Fear

Bipolar disorders like Manic Depression are caused by blockages which move within the body from meridian to meridian. They move from meridian to meridian using the Kundalini Cycle or Ko Cycle of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

As the Energy Blockage is removed, so the negative emotion goes.

As negative emotion disappears so Emotional Intelligence grows.

As negative emotion is healed, so the positive emotions of Love and Will and the Power of Doing, of getting things done increase.

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(Because violence or infidelity are not the only ones)

1. Making a mountain out of a molehill
Do you want to live in peace with your beloved? Then, first, control yourself. Loosing your temper, showing constant anger, or shouting for pointless reasons is obviously very harmful.
Try to throw back quarrelsome, authoritarian attitudes: you can contain your reactions: stop being so sensible (or hypersensitive, if you prefer) at the slightest contrariety.
In particular, distrust your interpretations : immediately assigning a negative meaning to a sentence, a gesture which you didnt understand well, leads to misunderstandings - which kills off your agreement.
Means # 1 to break your love relationship: aggressiveness and verbal violence.

2. Unjustified attacks of jealousy
Is your wife always attracting mens attention? Faint flattering whisperings? Admiring, if not always discreet, comments?
Feel flattered ! Keep smiling ! It is a tribute to you, one more proof of your good taste, of the good choice you have made. And, especially dont hold it against her. Do not blame her for a provocative attitude: charm and beauty reveal themselves even in the most modest womens behavior.
As for you, Lady, if he unconsciously turns his gaze to a passing young lady, do not take this gesture of innocent admiration as a harbinger of adultery! Do not ask him : ‘- Do you want her photo?? He wouldnt understand you or would find you unfair.
Means # 2 to kill your love relationship: unmotivated jealousy.

3. Ignoring the omnipresent dangers of routine
Thanks to your steady efforts, you have seduced your beloved, you have conquered him/her. One day, you decided to join your fates. Marvelous! At least, at the beginning
Why thus would you take the risk of loosening the pressure? Of stopping your efforts? They are the key to your happiness! Never forget to continue: just as all you wish to see going on long enough (your house, your garden, your car) -, youll have to take care of your love.
Think, each of you, of making small unforeseen and frequent pleasures to your beloved, to have some attentions for them, to express your tenderness, to break the daily rut by a touch of excitement. Among others, in your moments of intimacy.
Means # 3 to certainly break your couples harmony: to let yourselves being trapped by routine !

4. Giving top priority to your work, over your couple and/or your family
This error is more usually a mens one, — and often unintentional.
A way to put this problem right is to share activities and fields of interest with your beloved and both of you, with your children.
Another additional way is to fix appointments with your partner and to respect them. This way, you demonstrate the importance and the place you grant him/her in your life.
According to your profession, customers, patients, students, shareholders or seniors colleagues do not always have to pass before your couple ! In order to live a long-lasting relationship, you have to remain available for your couple.
To work for living? Well, yes: one too often needs to. But, to live for working work? NO : please, live to love, to bring moments of happiness to your beloved ones, to create!
Means # 4 to destroy your life as a couple: to forget your true priorities.

5. Letting dialogue fade, losing true communication
Many couples share the same bed, certain meals, TV programs; they sometimes go out together. But, theyre not always lucky enough to share a purpose, fields of interest or higher values.
Therefore, each of them pursues their own life, their own personal fate, only attentive to their own concerns, preoccupations or interests.
By speaking less and less together, they stop sharing ; there are no more exchanges ; their roads, formerly convergent or parallel, eventually move apart. Without any more true communication, their couple imperceptibly loses any real contact.
Means # 5 to disintegrate a couple: to imitate these old pairs whom you sometimes see at restaurants: theyre facing each other, indifferent one to another; they dont look at each other anymore, dont speak to each other anymore. (What could they say?) How cruel and distressing!

6. To let yourself go to make comparisons
Obviously, your ex (or someone among your acquaintances) said or did certain things better; was more this, less that: (s)he, at least
Who is perfect on Earth? If you sometimes make a comparison, then only make positive ones. Otherwise keep for yourself your disappointed, bitter or disenchanted reflections.
Obviously, we agree, you and me: to gather in the same person the tenderness and the kindness of your N1; the sensuality of your N2; the ‘class’ of N 3; the cheerfulness and practical intelligence of an office colleague, - would certainly be ideal : a truly delicious miracle.
Well! In fact, you can work this miracle, - by setting the example!
You particularly appreciated these qualities in the past? Maybe during a previous relationship?
By showing them yourself, youll fast discover how contagious they are: Give and thou will receive!
Take advantage of it to explain to your beloved what would please you; express your expectations, without vain shyness; speak to them about your desires.
Keep in mind that you chose your partner; the qualities theyre missing are probably compensated by others. Your tenderness, your encouragements, your frequent concern to value him / her, will round angles, making these comparisons soon become useless.
Means # 6 to make creak the springs of your relationship: not being able to refrain from comparing (aloud).

7. Calling your children to witness
All couples sometimes face difficult moments, arguing occasionally, exchanging reproaches, - in all or in part, justified. These are adults’ concerns !
Involving your children, even unintentionally, hurts them. Besides, this is the easy way to raise, bit by bit, a wall of incomprehension, of un-love and soon, of hatred: between the partners and later between them (or one of them) and their children.
You certainly feel this is not a good way to manage a healthy couples relationship.
Means # 7 to break up your couple: directly or indirectly blackening the image of the other parent in the eyes of your children.
Witnesses of situations or facts, the implications, the origin or the motive of which they cannot understand, how could they judge them clearly?

8. A quite inopportune haste
If you have acknowledged the happiness to live a passionate relationship (at least at the beginning), you will remember these delicious moments during which you were both active, and which both of you loved to prolong. Alas, time passes; concerns accumulate; your children, your work, your various responsibilities devour every minute of your time.
Soon, these embraces which, since always, have plunged those who love each other in shared delights, are abbreviated and then become less frequent.
It even happens to these lovers, to forget to take time for the after tenderness-cuddle !
They dont take time anymore to give each other some compliments, some words of love; to exchange small positive messages in order to remind themselves how much they love each other, how much they value their relationship, how much they appreciate each others presence.
Means # 8 to slide on the slippery slope of a break-up: Hurry ! Fulfilling embraces are an essential food for your tenderness. And - you know it - to make love the nice way, its necessary to take plenty of time. To hurry at these moments is hurrying the outbreak of tensions.

9. Being too often untidy-looking
Hygiene and body care dashed off, a constant disorder, indifferent dress sense, excess weight perfectly disdained : there are so many ways of letting your partner guess that you hardly care to please them. Heavy error: carelessness marks a lack of consideration to your better half, and this can hurt them deeply.
Respecting oneself and the Other also involves slight concessions connected to ones own look: the image which one gives of oneself has to be positive.
This quality not only has to be considered a female one. Men often lose sight that women too like to be at the arm or in the company of a partner of whom they feel legitimately proud.
Means # 9 for enticing your partner to imperceptibly begin to look around, - becoming more vulnerable to temptation: making no effort anymore to look neat for them.
To have got married and settled down doesnt guarantee fidelity for life; to believe it would be giving evidence of naivety.

10. Show yourself possessive
Living as a couple cant be a chain.
You want to continue to feel well together? For a long time? Well, your beloved is not a child anymore: give them a free rein, rely on them !
Each partner in a relationship has to preserve at least a part of their personal life, of their opinions, of their tastes. Always imposing on your partner your own way of life is a constraint which is not acceptable anymore in our time.
Living together never means surrendering ones own personality; having to comply in all with the desires and requirements of the other is, on the contrary, a very effective way to awaken feelings of rebellion. This leads one to become secretive, it leads to lies and unfaithfulness.
Important decisions imperatively have to be taken together. (In the West at least, we can take this luck for theoretically - granted.)
To live a harmonious relationship naturally involves common activities and relations, sharing a social life, solidarity in the face of tasks and responsibilities, an ideal, a fulfilling tenderness, etc.
From that point to never losing sight of your better half, to keeping a constant watch on them - even if it is sometimes unconscious -, there is a big step. It is essential not to cross that line.
Means # 10 to ruin your relationship: completely restrain her / his independence, keep her / him under your heel. Your better half is a whole human person. As such, (s)he appreciates to be with you, - not to you. (At least, in current daily life.)

You can take my word for it : implementing these suggestions will lead your couple towards harmony and preserve it from a lot of nuisance.

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Ivan Greindl is the author of the well-known method :
How to Boooost Your Love Life - 60 Simple Ways for Results in 8 Days
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