Being More Mindful Can Maximize Your Chances of Relationship Success

Opening up your heart can improve connection.

E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth
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9 min readAug 19, 2024

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When it comes to our intimate relationships, we want solutions. We want to know how to navigate conflict. We want to know how to communicate better, how to feel more connected, and how to achieve goals as a team. People want to know “how to do love,” but the truth is that so many relationship goals center around one central skill: mindfulness.

Mindfulness isn’t a miracle cure, but it has the power to transform our romantic relationships. Mindfulness enhances trust and creates vulnerability. When we are mindful, we become better partners and empower our partners to be better people, too.

Looking for the perfect relationship? You’ll never find it. But you can get pretty close by centering mindfulness at the heart of your connection to each other.

Building mindfulness starts with the self.

The journey to a more mindful relationship necessarily begins with a mindfulness of self. We are the starting points to change in our relationship. Our…

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E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth

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