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Podcast: The Highly Sensitive Soul Podcast
Episode: Tools for Healthy Relating (Part 1)
Description: Last week we talked about emotional maturity. This week we have some guiding principles for practicing this, care of Marshall Rosenberg's method, Nonviolent Communication. Similar to the 8 limbs of yoga, where we have yamas (what we abstain from) and niyamas (what we cultivate), he offers a list of behaviors we don't want to participate in. These, like the yamas in yoga: ahimsa (non-violence), satya (truthfulness or non-lying), asteya (non-stealing), brahmacharya (energetic containment), and aparigraha (non-greed), show us what to avoid in order not to contaminate our good relations. The first step is cutting...