Product Title:
How into Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys into Mindful Loving
Description:
“Most people think of love as a feeling,” says David Richo, “but love is never so much a feeling as a way of being present.” In this book, Richo features a fresh perspective on love & relationships, one that is never focused on the search for an ideal partner, but on a more loving & realistic person. Drawing on the Buddhist concept of mindfulness as an adult love relationships are never explored in five characteristics of mindful & how they play an important role in our relationships by making life: 1 Respect into the currently moment, observing, listening, perception of all emotions play in our relations. 2nd Acceptance of ourselves & others as we are. 3rd Appreciation of all gifts, our limits, our longings & our poignant human dilemma. 4th Affection through holding & touching in respectful ways shown. 5th Allowing life & love into be, as they are, trying with all their ecstasy & pain, without having into take control. When deeply understood & applied, these five simple concepts, what Richo calls the five A’s are the basis of mature love. They help us move away from a verdict, fear & guilt, into a position of openness, compassion & realism about life & relationships. By giving & receiving the five A’s, relationships become deeper & more meaningful, & they will be a ground for personal transformation.
Originally I wanted to help me get books about a man in my life, yet in my life, but not committed to me. We are the classic “friends with benefits” only benefit is it more than I am. . . much more. This book has been increasingly ignored in a big way, what I already knew, but deliberately. It teaches us how to change is frightening. . . even if healthy change. It is scary because it know what we are comfortable with and after a while. It reaches deep into the psyche and shows why we are in relationships, not to stay so healthy. It connects us to our childhood, but not in any way as some kind of crutching readings, the “blame” our recent decisions on all incidences of childhood, but also shows us why we might do some of the decisions we.
you will not be disappointed in this book. I had to force me to lay down there and sleep. I read it in two days. I underlined so many sections that applied to me. This book is a life Keeper! Get one for yourself or someone close to you, if you think they need some changes in the way they choose to make relationships in their lives. You (or they) like to have you!
A warning. . . It is very honest. Sometimes when you something you do not like to hear, it can be a profound effect. I cried reading this book, because they spoke several times about my life. . . my thoughts and my feelings in the selection and stay with a partner.
Rating: 5.5
I bought his two books by this author: As an adult, and how to be an adult in relationships. Both are excellent.
Even if the titles start with Windows. . . These are not self-help books.
This book is: The author describes what give love attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection and makes – the five A’s as he calls it. The language used is beautiful, the way the author thinks, inspiring, and you can just feel that he is a loving person. No ego-based, let ‘me tell you how great I am “paragraphs’m here.
The book is like a valuable piece of literature, as a philosophical and psychological work. I read and looked at many sites.
The bottom line is this: If you are looking for a quick-fix, feel good book – skip it. If you are willing to do the work, unless you are not afraid of the realization that learning to love is a lifelong process are, and not of fear (as another reviewer put it), big words, this is the book is worth reading – again and again.
Rating: 5.5
I bought this book in the midst of confusion as to weather I wanted to get married or break a relationship with a particular person. I am a psychologist and a lover and an avid reader of self-help books and vampire
long time ago a friend of mine said to me: “Be honest with yourself.” Mr. Richo does just that. Feelings of validity and recognition of personal pain flow from this book as you read it, and it is a part of you. This book helped me make so many decisions and helped me gain a lot more self-confidence by recognizing me what happened right before my eyes.
tabbed, underlined, highlighted and played so many pages I had read it with their friends Shapter relations help, and it is amazing the kind of feedback in this book gets. Do yourself a favor and check them out. Select the parts that you need to read first, and win everything you know withought ever read through an introduction or a foward first. The index is thorough and all your questions are in front of you. An amazing tool, a great gift, a life-long partner, a second Bible.
Rating: 5.5
This book has me enough to actually write this review not something I would normally do.
I took this book in the middle of the night after waking up from a fear- attack on what in my new “relationship” with a woman I head over to the fallen, at the age of 59 happens, and who had just told me she needed space and I needed to with some of my problems to treat before we could continue. This book has been sitting in her kitchen – her therapist had recommended she read it – and I started to read random chapters, hoping it would put me back to sleep. Hours later, I realized I had to buy this book because it so clearly and deeply resonant
I have read John Kabat-Zinn’s books on mindfulness, and have regular, if less than all my heart to meditate attempts and other forms of awareness, but this book put it into context, the immediacy and urgency was to me. It helped literally snap me out of the “ether”. Part of its appeal / response is the broad participation of various forms of psychological practices associated with spiritual insights and plenty of sound personal observation of us mortals mix.
After many years of therapy and self -help/self-therapy made me this book to take measures in order to really change, and it has helped me to see how / where I need to change, and gave me the confidence and comfort to believe we can change ourselves yes ( if people under 30 may not be able to know so much appreciate this until they have more life experience I be able to recognize the patterns of their lives). I have this book to everyone I know mentioned that might be interested, including some former therapist / counselor. I’m sure I’ll keep this book in the immediate area for a long time.
Rating: 5.5
I bought this book in the middle of a separation that I did not understand, and I’m incredible. In fact, I bought several “relationship” books, to find out what was going on, but enriches me the most. My friend ignored my wishes for a “conversation” about what was going on, after he decided to end it, despite his claim that the best relationship he had. Initially I had concerns about his commitment and willingness to work with conflict and build a life with a partner what I thought we both wanted. Reading this book, I realized that his desire to end the relationship much deeper than “we have to break because I’m moving, running” and that his actions are probably rooted deep in his subconscious, which is to say to him that He is worthy of love. This book helped me crystallize my own set of motives that I see brought to the relationship and helped me find what I did and not do on my own values and questions of the foundation. ” There are exercises to help you, your weed patterns in relation to people with respect.
It is written with an incredible amount of insight about the nature of relationships, the partners we pick, the psychological material that we bring, and the whims of inevitiable what happens when two people are in love. I especially liked that the authors do not dumb down the discussion, like so many other books that you address as you are an eight-grader.
I have come to recognize that the relationship that is currently dissovling probably over because I can not persuade or convince, my partner anything. This book helped me to see that we are in two different places in our capacity to give and receive love – and it is to be in order for them that way. This way I have found peace in my heart, go to him with love, acceptance, and compassion, so that he continue on his own heroic journey, he displayed for himself – even if he decided to do it alone. In short, this book gave me some of the understanding and relief that I was looking for and helped me accept that they decided that the relationship is nothing without an end to accept – difficult but necessary to move on. Highly recommended – both for gay and straghts – and I know my next relationship will be better because I read this book.
Rating: 5.5