I'm sure you have heard people prattling about being positive, thinking positive and changing your life. Honestly, I was a skeptic for sometime because it seemed rather magical. I mean how is it that just thinking about something makes it a reality? Experience seems to show otherwise but soon I realized that my skepticism was misdirected. The idea that your thoughts can change your life is true but the way it is marketed and advertised isn't always so.

The desire to love is compelling. It is a force so strong that it is difficult to overcome. Relationships are a natural consequence of the fundamental need to love.  It forms an integral part of the process of growth and maturity. The yearning to be in a loving relationship is inescapable because of powerful hormonal drives, innate motivational forces and socio-cultural influences. It is a developmental necessity, and therefore an undeniable aspect of life itself.

Nostalgia doesn’t serve you. Many are either living everyday in the glory of their past accomplishments or using the hope for a better future as a way of escapism. People use it to get away into a perceived state of elation. And what are they escaping? They are escaping the much-dreaded present.

Love is a very powerful thing and conveying the language of love is easier said than done. Are you willing to go through all that? Would you desire to learn and connect with people and set up strong and reliable linkages? Then the 5 love languages can help you along the way.

We yearn for the truth about things that can affect us. We seek it. We crave it. It is part of our programming as human beings. This desire to know springs from the necessity to feel safe and secure. We are driven by the need for certainty and what may threaten it. But must we really know the truth all the time and in every circumstance? Do we really wish to discover what people think of us? Does knowing the secrets of those dear to us truly matter?

We have heard this before, about how forgiveness can help us move on instead of being stuck in an abysmal rut. In theory, it is easy to put out suggestions to follow simple steps for freedom from bondage. When it comes to implementing the idea, it does get quite difficult and there are hardly any takers. I am going to look at this purely from a practical perspective based on that let us take it a step at a time. Here are some ideas and the reasoning behind the ideas that causes us to stay put, remain stuck in a rut, do not opt to forgive and so on and so forth.

At home or work front, women have to confront situations where being emotionally intelligent pays off. How do you actually achieve emotional intelligence? Read on for insights.

Whether you have just begun dating, or are ending a serious relationship, or even a marriage, a heartbreak can be difficult to deal with if you do not know what to do. You may experience different levels of heartbreak at different phases of your lives, but no matter where you are on the scale, dealing with it effectively, and moving on can not only save you a lot of misery, but also make you a more mature person.

Relationships such as marriages, live-ins, romance or any other kind of love relationship can be sustained with a happy note to them if you follow some of the secret rules. A relationship is completely subjective and there are no clear cut rules that can be executed on it and yet, when you follow certain guidelines, it may help you make your relationship a happy one. Here is how.

Many couples struggle with the idea of keeping their love alive and keeping the flame still burning. After a couple of years of marriage things might be getting dull. But keeping the love alive is possible. All you need is creativity and some time on your hands.