BEING OPEN PRACTICE
To Grow Connection
- Twice a day pause and tune into what you are feeling
- Locate where in your body that feeling is
- Note if it has a color, temperature, texture, weight or what it is like
- Tell someone what you are feeling, where you feel it and what it is like for you
Other Practices That Develop Connection
Admit Your Feelings
- Deliberately let people know when you are hurting or moved
- Track where in your body you feel different emotions
- Discern whether you are feeling sad, mad, glad, bad or afraid
- Share things about your childhood that you found hard
Enter the Other’s Reality
- Watch people and tune into what they are feeling
- After a conversation, note what each participant might be feeling
- Take time with someone close to you asking in detail what they are feeling
- Intuit what someone is all about, then find out how accurate you were
Receive Support
- Find someone with whom you can, for a period, be vulnerable and cared for
- List what is most nurturing or pleasurable for you and consciously indulge
- Interpret all behavior as either extending love or a cry for love
- Hold or play with a child and deeply connect being to being
Admit Your Feelings
- Deliberately let people know when you are hurting or moved
- Track where in your body you feel different emotions
- Discern whether you are feeling sad, mad, glad, bad or afraid
- Share things about your childhood that you found hard
Enter the Other’s Reality
- Watch people and tune into what they are feeling
- After a conversation, note what each participant might be feeling
- Take time with someone close to you asking in detail what they are feeling
- Intuit what someone is all about, then find out how accurate you were
Receive Support
- Find someone with whom you can, for a period, be vulnerable and cared for
- List what is most nurturing or pleasurable for you and consciously indulge
- Interpret all behavior as either extending love or a cry for love
- Hold or play with a child and deeply connect being to being