6th Invitation -- Love Like You're Dancing
Reading and study – Setting Your Heart on Fire, p. 172-213
In the Sixth Invitation, love calls you to transform all your relationships into a dance of self-discovery.
Author Cushnir gives us a new way to see relationships, a much deeper way to enter into them, through partnerships that celebrate wholeness (see pp. 175-180). We are shown how to examine a relationship using the first five Invitations and how to surrender routine by using the sixth Invitation, creating growth opportunities for both parties.
Being fully present: In the early stages of a relationship, practicing patience and relying on messages from our bodies can help us be fully present. As you read pages 183-185, bring to mind a new or relatively new relationship, see if you were trying to force clarity before its time, playing the “what if” game, in a new relationship.
Recurring themes: In pages 186-189 we see how recurring themes, if identified and examined with our Invitations, create healing opportunity. What patterns and themes can you identify in your relationships? Begin to look deeply and courageously with the exercise on page 188.
Conflict as a tool: Real conflict can be an instrument of love through introspection. As you read the scenario found in pages 196-198, can you think of an instance in which you might have delayed conflict and used introspection to create a more open and loving outcome?
Physical and emotional boundaries: We explore boundaries in pages 199-203. Do the physical boundary experiment and find your safety zone, paying attention to where and how you know it. Then, using your imagination, do the emotional boundary experiment. Are you ignoring or resenting boundaries? Are you willing to move toward a greater degree of closeness?
Diagnosing a relationship: In pages 209-212 we see how looking at a problematic relationship through the questions of the first six Invitations can lead to knowledge about the relationship’s future. Have you been, or are you now, in a situation where using this technique could make a great difference in achieving clarity?
Accepting the Sixth Invitation:
To the best of my current and evolving ability, I resolve to: