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

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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

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