Art of Relationship: The New Perspective

by Denny Reynolds and Ron Reynolds

Book Overview

Art of Relationship: The New Perspective transforms traditional marriage. This book reveals how to enhance your relationship by turning it into a Spiritual Partnership. An inner sense of well-being... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412083184
• ISBN13: 9781412083188
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An insightful guide to conscious spiritual growth in relationships

This book is based upon the principles presented in the authors' previous book, The New Perspective, and explores how the spiritual self-awareness and self-discovery tools apply to growth and development in intimate relationships. With extensive personal experience from their own relationship as well as observations from clients and other persons they have encountered, this duo offer many wonderful insights and anecdotes. Their ideas empower us to become more conscious and open to transformation in our lives, keys to maintaining an ongoing dance of intimacy with our partners/loved ones. This book is fairly compact and offers specific exercises and tools to apply (note that some of the intimacy exercises require a partner, though you can work with a lot of this even if you don't have a partner), while presenting ideas in a very accessible and inspirational manner. The ideas may be familiar to those like myself who have been studying "new thought" and "new age" metaphysical and psychological materials. Yet, they are presented here in a way that is fresh and vital and easy to relate to what you may actually experience in your own relationships or observe in others. This book is a valuable resource independent of whether you read the preceding book in their New Perspective series.

Compassionate Tools for Building Sacred Relationships

ART OF RELATIONSHIP is an amazingly helpful book for anyone in a romantic relationship who truly desires greater intimacy, understanding and depth. Authors Ron and Denny Reynolds are superbly qualified as relationship experts, as they have weathered numerous challenges through their four decades together as a couple, and as counselors. Relationships truly are an art form, as they seldom fit hard-and-fast rules regarding what always works and what doesn't... and ART OF RELATIONSHIP provides assistance in those vexing gray areas in which we run into our own and each others' dark, or shadow, sides. Ron and Denny take turns sharing both sides of their experiences, demonstrating how it really is possible to move away from blaming to claiming... and how balance is required so we don't over-give or over-take. My favorite part of this book is the part about getting conscious with one's truth by finding the story we are creating, and determining whether this story is based on real emotions or some kind of rationalization concealing a deeper truth. When we work together in our relationships and learn to develop trust of one another and ourselves, the most wonderfully enriching spiritual growth can occur. This is an extraordinary gem of a book that you'll want to get at least two of... one to keep on hand, and one to give or loan!

Excellent and inspiring

This is the second book in Ron and Denny Reynolds's new perspective series. I read their first book, "Ten Tools for Self-Transformation" and really liked it. I liked this one even more. Here Ron and Denny share of their experience and knowledge around relationships (something that they obviously know quite a lot about, as in the book we learn that they have been married for 45 years!). The perspective taken here is both metaphysical and psychological, with lots of very useful observations that are drawn not only from Ron and Denny's personal experience as a couple, but also from Denny's twenty years of work as a Marriage and Family Therapist. The result is a very grounded book, clear and to the point, which emanates however a beautiful and very high spiritual vibration. One can feel the hand of Spirit oozing through the pages, inspiring us to embrace each other and our reflection in the other, inspiring us to use "Relationship" as one of the most potent and satisfying vehicles for personal growth. Because of my work as a healer, many of the concepts in this book are not new to me...but maybe because of this I found myself appreciating even more how neatly this information was packaged. Also knowing information and living information are two different things. As stated in the book, staying conscious is really at the center of our ability to have fulfilling relationships. But how often do we find ourselves sleeping at the wheel? I guess we need constant reminders and nudges and this book was just that for me. I found myself apologizing to a few people in my life immediately after reading the book, realizing I had gotten stuck into needing to be right. The person I had the disagreement with was really pleased I buried the war hatchet and we had our first proper conversation in weeks...The book was an excellent reminder of what is important and what is not, encouraging us to stay conscious enough in our dealings with our significant others, so that we may operate from Spirit rather than ego, so that we may grow together with love, compassion and mutual respect. All in all, a very pleasant read and a wonderfully inspiring little book.