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Many yoga practitioners and meditators work for hours on postures or meditation, but have yet to look at why they lose their peace around the same people every day.

It is in relating to others, especially when deep emotions surface, that we find clues as to what we need to work on in this body.  Few of us were taught to express our needs and feelings, let alone express them when there is potential for conflict.   NVC provides a powerful, simple, neutral format that works.

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We exist in this world in relation to others.  Often it is in our most common relationships - family and work - that we have the opportunity to see our patterns of suffering, for we are playing them out with the others involved.  Wouldn't it be great to have skills to use when things aren't going smootly in a relationship?  NVC provides these skills, as well as a neutral format for speaking and listening.

NVC begins with separating time for each person in established roles of speaker and listener.  The speaker uses "I" statements in the four categories of: I observed, I felt, because I need, and I request.  Before NVC, in difficult times, I had trouble knowing how I felt, let alone what I might need.

I know now that I have a healthy relationship with someone when things do come up between us (not just when it is always sunny), and the person is willing to take the time to figure out why.