The Evolution of a Conscious Relationship

Couples in long-term relationships frequently offer advice on how to sustain a healthy relationship across the span of a lifetime. In the July 2022 Science of Mind magazine, Barbara Doern Drew and Dr. Walter Drew share their journey to creating a marriage based in consciousness and creativity.

“With no map to this uncharted territory,” they write, “we realized that here was another opportunity to draw even more deeply on the spiritual practices and everyday rituals that sustained and supported us individually and in our 33-year relationship. We faced challenges to which we wanted to bring our greatest consciousness and commitment.”

They explain that part of the larger context for their relationship is an acknowledgement of the existence of the one Divine Source. They affirm knowing this Source “expresses Itself uniquely in, as and through all creation, including us."

Shown here on their wedding day in 1989, the Drews today focus on setting their affairs in order as their latest life phase unfolds. They add: “Our goal is to become more available to the opportunities and creativity of this unique stage, treasuring each moment and making a meaningful contribution for as long as we are here.

“We savor both the knowns and the unknowns, the flowing times as well as the halting ones, knowing they are all part of the colorful tapestry that is our life together. We are grateful for it all — this wonder-filled experience of the conscious evolution of our loving, committed relationship.”

Three Spiritual Practices

to Co-Create a Conscious Relationship

What, you may wonder, is a “conscious relationship”? A consensus definition includes a number of identifiers: Each partner being responsible for their own happiness; seeing each other with compassion; creating space for honesty, vulnerability and accountability; accepting and appreciating each other without trying to change the other person.

Clearly, a conscious relationship is a journey rather than an endpoint. Here are three spiritual practices to help guide your travels:

1. Consciously invite stillness into your life. In a world filled with distractions, learn to be present in the moment through stillness.
2. Consciously co-create a life together. Set meaningful and significant common goals to keep the spark lit.
3. Join a conscious community. Surround yourselves with conscious people to help expand your own conscious vibes.

Learn more at: www.relationshipzen.ca/blog/how-to-co-create-a-conscious-relationship.

Meditation on a Happy Family

By Ernest Holmes

Believing that God is an actual presence within and around me and in and around each member of my family, I now affirm that this family is a household of God. Each member is deeply rooted in the one Divine spirit of love, of harmony and of unity. Each desires the good of the other.

Here is tolerance, understanding and peace. Here is a unity of thought, purpose, plan and action. Here is sympathy and understanding. And here is the joy of living and the happiness of being together. There is at all times, a deep sense of security and safety, a feeling of comfort and well-being. There is a feeling that we all belong to each other and that we all belong to Life Itself. We are in partnership with Life and with each other, joining together in mutual confidence.

This family lives and moves and has its being in God. Each is a person within himself, uniting with all others and joined together in love. There is always a sense of peace, of protection and of happiness. For this is God's good family here on Earth.

—Excerpted from the July 2022 Science of Mind magazine.