COMMUNICATION FOR RELATIONSHIP—EYE TO EYE, NOT SCREEN TO SCREEN

June 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment

NOTE:  Please stop and first read article on “THE CASE FOR DAYDREAMING, AND BOREDOM, AND . . .”  It prepares you for this one.

Communication in a relationship is not a transfer of information.

A relationship missing eye contact by choice or habit is incomplete and unsustainable.

And, human relationships starve without touch.

I promised my son a powerful punch line for this one:

What can you absolutely not do when you have eye contact and touch in a real person relationship?

YOU CAN’T USE TECHNOLOGY !

AND, YOU DON’T NEED IT !

WOW !

That’s wonderful.

Now you’ve arrived.

Can’t beat that.

Can’t touch that.

Can’t improve on that.

Can’t rush that—that rush surpasses a tech rush any day.

Filed Under: Inspirational

THE CASE FOR DAYDREAMING, AND BOREDOM, AND . . .

June 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment

. . . AND SILENCE, AND UNPLUGGED, AND . . .

I’m quite sure that last one made my point.  But there is more.

There is a case for a break—a break from most of what runs our lives today.  But let me just continue the list right now.  I’m aware it’s quite a list, but I’ve never written it down.

The case for . . .

+ DAYDREAMING

+ BOREDOM

+ SILENCE

+ QUIET

+ UNPLUGGED

+ REST

+ STOP

+ ALONE

+ THOUGHT

+ REFLECTION

+ UNHURRIED

+ UNDISTURBED

+ CREATIVITY

+ SENSITIVITY

+ CONSCIOUS INACTIVITY

+ SACRED SUNDAY AFTERNOON NAPS

+ SPECIAL UNTOUCHABLE FRIDAY NIGHTS

+ “CAN’T HEAR YOU NOW”

+ DEFRAG THE HARD DRIVE OF LIFE (I asked my son for that one)

+ UNDIVIDED ATTENTION—ALL BY YOURSELF

+ DON’T ANSWER THAT

+ DON’T EVEN LOOK

+ KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD

+ EYE TO EYE—NOT SCREEN TO SCREEN

+ TECH FAST—FROM FAST TECH

+ FIVE MINUTE TUMMY BREAK AFTER MEALS

+ LAST THOUGHT OF THE DAY—LET IT GO

+ FIRST THOUGHT OF THE DAY—LET IT WAIT

+ LOOKED AT THE STARS LATELY?

+ LOOKED AT THE CLOUDS LATELY?

+ LOOKED AT ONE BIBLE VERSE LATELY?

+ BE STILL (step one)

+ KNOW (step two)

+ I AM GOD

 

(If you can, now go through this list and add “by choice” [except the last line] and reflect on each one.  You may be pleasantly surprised—and we need that.)

Filed Under: Educational, Inspirational, Time