Imago therapy for relationships

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUSKejGLZe8

I'm very impressed with this. big grin

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A lot of years ago, I read Vivekananda talking about four kinds of yoga: karma yoga, bhakti yogi, jnana yoga, and raja yoga. He wrote really well about the four yogas, I thought, but the thought that occurred to me then and which I still wonder about is 'relationship yoga'. That's what the imago video reminds me of - the yoga of relationship. I see no reason why relationship can't be a spiritual path if that's what both people are interested in doing with it.

dobro wrote:

A lot of years ago, I read Vivekananda talking about four kinds of yoga: karma yoga, bhakti yogi, jnana yoga, and raja yoga. He wrote really well about the four yogas, I thought, but the thought that occurred to me then and which I still wonder about is 'relationship yoga'. That's what the imago video reminds me of - the yoga of relationship. I see no reason why relationship can't be a spiritual path if that's what both people are interested in doing with it.

does it really require two? augen rollen

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I've got enough personalities inside me to have a number of relationships with the witness.

But it's like sex. It's more fun with two people than with yourself.

and then there are situations like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG1UEkC8aZY

Why did you disconnect the brakes on my car?
That kind of thing is hard to ignore

lachen

I still think there might be a yoga of relationship. But I'm sort of traditional, and the traditional approach is all about getting on with it on your own and leaving other people to their own devices. It's not so cruel, though. We're all one, after all.

lachen

I'd still be curious to know if the lore contains any tales of couples who have tried to walk the path together.

Well that's kind of what the tantric stuff is supposed to involve right, but I'm not familiar with it.

In a way there's always the question of relationship, I just don't know that it follows any kind of organized pattern so that you can call it something or make it one of the categories of yoga. It has been observed that it's more a matter of seeing how far your realization have gone, but not so much that it is the path itself. But in principle, as you may have heard it is not ultimately opposites coming together so that just goes for relationships as well as anything else.