October, 2008

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Writing Wedding Vows–How to Keep the ‘High Watch’

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Writing wedding or commitment vows is the opportunity each of you have to talk about the highest and best intentions that you can imagine for yourself and for your partner.

Your vows are the place where you promise to support yourself and your partner in becoming the highest and best each of you can be.

The first of the 10 Commandments of Marriage is Honor Yourself. The second commandment is Honor Each Other.

It may seem strange that the first commandment is about yourself. Yet if you hold yourself high with integrity and self respect and never compromise your values you can trust each other absolutely.

This trust is the basis for everything else that defines your life and your marriage.

Write this in your wedding vows: “I promise to hold myself high with integrity and self respect and never compromise my values.”

When you stay ‘high’ from living out of your core values and practice doing what makes you come alive, you have more patience, more love, more compassion for everyone including your partner

Here’s a priceless quote from Marianne Williamson:

“Part of working on ourselves, in order to be ready for a profound relationship, is learning how to support another person in being the best that they can be. Partners are meant to have a priestly role in each other’s lives.

“They are meant to help each other access the highest parts within themselves.”

You are meant to access the highest parts of who you are and in the process learn to see the best in your partner.

Constantly strive to expand your capacities for learning, playing, loving, trusting, praying (whatever that means to you) and playing.

The strongest relationship develops when each partner can hold the ‘high watch’ for the other.

This means that when your partner has forgotten who they are, where they are, what they are doing, or where they are going, you remember for them.

You continue to treat them as though they were still present in their fullness.

You continue to see the best in them.

You practice forgiveness!

This may not be easy to do. That’s why it’s important to keep reading your vows over and over and over again.

Every day affirm that you are awake, aware, and living your highest and greatest good.

Write this in your vows and then put it on a card in the present moment so you have to look at it every morning:

“Everyday I will remember to live my life from the highest perspective I can imagine.”

It helps you remember every day who you are, who your partner is, where you are going and how to recognize when you are off the path.

Can you see what an amazing tool writing your own wedding or commitment vows can be? They are your compass, your map, and your course correction.

Look and read them often and you will never get lost; you will be able to continue to see the best in yourself, and the best in your partner.

Love, light and laughter,

Rev. Linda Bardes, The Wedding Vow Coach

Helping couples write down the dream and then live it!

Linda has a unique and innovative approach to writing wedding vows and how to keep living the dream!  You can read more at www.WeddingVowsandCeremonies.com.

Be sure to download a copy of the FREE ebook, 30 Minute Miracle. I originally wrote this for people who show up at the web site looking for help but they have only a few days or minutes to write their vows. The phrases, words, poems and other materials are helpful to everyone. See sign-up box at top. or go to main page, www.WeddingVowsandCeremonies.com 

Writing Wedding Vows–No Bull in Your Comfort Zone

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Writing wedding or commitment vows are an opportunity to get to the core of not only the dream you have for your life together but also to create an opportunity to discuss the behaviors and habits you return to over and over again when you feel vulnerable or afraid.

What I’m asking you to do is not be so ‘bullish.’

This is a fascinating phenomena: In the bullfighting arena expert matadors have long gained an edge by pinpointing a bull’s comfort zone. In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns over and over.

Each bull has a different querencia, but as the bullfight continues, and the animal becomes more threatened, it returns more and more often to his spot. As he returns to his querencia, he becomes more predictable and more vulnerable.

Sticking with what’s comfortable might be one of the deadliest habits of all.

Each of us has our own ’spot.’ It’s a behavior or habit we retreat to when we become frightened, angry, sad, frustrated, or disappointed.

When we feel vulnerable we become predictable.

What is the comfort zone that you return to when threatened?

In other words what is the habit that you repeat over and over that makes you feel safe but doesn’t serve your highest and greatest good?

Perhaps you retreat into yourself and ‘cave’ up. You build a wall around yourself and won’t talk. You push other people away. You sit alone and feel sorry for yourself.

One of my daughters used to put up a wall so thick no one could ever get through. You knew it by her body language and if anyone attempted to get through she became so angry that people ran from her. Sometimes forever. When I recognized this was her ‘comfort zone’ I simply wrapped my arms around her and held on, physically and emotionally.

Maybe you talk and talk and talk about ‘it.’ You talk about ‘it’ so often that eventually you become so distant from the situation you never resolve it. People don’t even want to be around you. This is death to a relationship! If you haven’t kept your vows in front of you you won’t even see it.

Maybe you go to the gym and ‘work’ it out. Except what you are doing is actually working it in where you will have to deal with it again sooner or later.

In preparation for writing your wedding vows ask yourself, “What is it that I do over and over again that does not help me stay on course or grow?”

Once you understand what that is, talk to your partner and ask him or her to help you to find a more productive and positive way of handling your disappointments, frustrations, anger, sadness, etc. Ask them to not be intimidated. Ask them to see something bigger and better for you.

Write this into your wedding or commitment vows.

“I will stay open to new ways of doing things, both for myself, and for us as a couple. I will not be afraid to move away from my comfort zone when it is important to my growth, or your growth or the highest and greatest good of our marriage and partnership.”

Your personal and unique wedding or commitment vows are so much more than you think. They are the most important tool you can ever have in your own personal toolbox and the toolbox of your marriage!

Love, light and laughter,

Rev. Linda Bardes, The Wedding Vow Coach

Helping couples write down the dream and then live it!

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Linda has a unique and innovative perspective on writing wedding vows in shared conversation. She outlines her guidelines for writing vows in her Ebook, THE SECRET LIVE OF VOWS

She wrote the 30 Minute Miracle for couples and individuals who come to the web site at the last minute and do not have time to use her more dynamic guidelines. The lists of phrases, words and readings are a good companion for anyone. Use link or sign up box at top.

Be sure to pick up the totally free, 10 Commandments of Marriage. You don’t even have to leave your Email. This is a gift for you from Rev. Linda.

 

Writing Wedding Vows–’Jumping the Shark’

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

When you write your unique wedding or commitment vows in shared conversation infusing a dream into them and promising what you will do to keep that dream alive, you are ‘jumping the shark.’

‘Jumping the shark,’ is a phrase that came as a result of an old Fonzie episode on TV.

It’s accepted meaning is to do something radical and unusual to get back on course. But there are negative connotations also. Some definitions would say that it’s all over ‘when the Fonz has jumped.”

However, what those descriptions do not seem to take into account is that after that episode where the Fonz actually jumped on water skies over a shark contained in an enclosure, the show went on to produce 100 more episodes!

I want you to ‘jump the shark’ even before a jump is needed.

I want you to get very clear about the dream you have for your marriage. (That’s the core of my philosophy.) But I also want you to talk about an experience that sooner or later is going to come up in your marriage:

You are going to find yourself going off course . . .

You are going to realize that your relationship is in danger of becoming mediocre . . .

You will realize that your relationship needs an infusion of intimacy, energy, laughter, and conversation.

Take all this into account when you sit down together to talk about the dream you have for your marriage. Be honest with each other that sooner or later your relationship is going to need a little reinvigoration; that you are going to need to give it a little boost.

I am suggesting that you to ‘jump the shark’ now and build that course correction into the writing your wedding vows.

“But, Rev. Linda,” you say. “We are so madly in love. That’s not going to change!”

I want remind you that divorce statistics prove otherwise: Fifty percent of 1st time marriages will end within 4 years.

Somehow those couples who were madly and gladly in love fell sadly and madly out of love!

If you spend some time up front that won’t happen to you. Here’s what I want you to do:

  • Write your wedding or commitment vows in shared conversation.
  • Talk about the dream you have for your life together.
  • Be honest that the dream you gave voice to will sometimes get a little flat and the core values you established may be compromised.
  • Promise to be the first to take the initiative to get things back on course.
  • Write that promise into your vows: “I promise that I will be mindful our our promises to each other and take the initiative if I realize that things are not measuring up to our standards.”
  • Reread your vows every day even after the ceremony. This keeps the dream and the promises right in front of you. You will be more able to recognize when things are veering off course.

What you want to do is to ‘jump the shark’ before there’s even a shark to jump. Having fun and being intimate on an ongoing basis will help you keep your dream alive and thriving.

  • Make love on the kitchen floor!
  • Go out for a long walk.
  • Hold hands for 1 minute every day.
  • Take a ’sleepover’ trip even if it is only for one night in a hotel close to home.
  • I had a friend who wrapped herself in saran wrap and waited at the front door with a scissors in her hand!
  • This same friend had a picnic on the living room floor in winter complete with bathing suits and an ant farm.

By writing your own vows, reviewing those vows, taking time to have fun and talk, your marriage or partnership will continue to so strong that there will be no fish big enough to need jumping!

Love, light and laughter,Rev. Linda, The Wedding Vow Coach

Helping couples write down the dream and then live it!

For more about my innovative philosophy about writing wedding vows and what it could do for you see the Main Web Page


Writing Wedding Vows-The Sneaky Approach!

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Getting your partner to agree to and participate in writing wedding or commitment vows might seem like a stretch of your imagination but I can give you a way to make writing your vows fun and he/she won’t even know that you are doing it until it’s too late to turn back.

This may be a bit sneaky and shameless but considering that writing your wedding vows can be one of the most important things you can ever to do to ensure the longevity, passion and intimacy of your relationship, I know you want to do everything you can to get this into motion.

Here’s what you are going to do. You and your partner are going to create a vision board!

This is just one of the idea generators you can find in my Ebook, THE SECRET LIFE OF VOWS-How to Write Vows That Create Powerful Marriages.

A vision board is where you paste pictures and phrases that represent the dreams and goals you each have for yourselves and the dream you have for your marriage. Your vows will reflect those dreams. Maybe we could call your marriage or commitment vows ‘vision vows!’

Because that’s really what your vows are. The more energy in your vows, the more power there is to attract to you everything that you want and need to support your perfect dream.

Start collecting magazines on all sorts of subjects including travel, houses, furniture, family, fitness, etc. Make sure that you have the sort of print media that your partner is interested in. You should know him or her well enough to get the perfect stuff.

You can go to Google and click on ‘Images’ then keyword in what you are looking for, find something you can print out and you have instant images of your life together. Maybe you have phrases in mind. You can print out these also.

Ask your friends for magazines. If you are in a dentist or doctor’s office and the magazines are really old ask if you can have the one that you want.

Get together pictures taken of the two of you doing fun things and pictures that represent the emotional and physical closeness that is the cornerstone of a relationship and marriage.

You will need glue and scissors and poster board or foam board (for longevity). The pictures and words will represent aspects of your life.

Don’t get too bossy or direct the outcome. Just tell your partner that the two of you are going to cut out and glue pictures and words that represent what it is that you want to attract into your life and let the process unfold. Have fun. Don’t be too serious.

When you have finished the board each of you explain to the other the meaning of the pictures and phrases. Between the two of you most subjects will be covered.

Here’s where some of the sneaky stuff comes in. When your partner talks about the meaning of the images and words on the board ask questions to get to the heart of the overall dream for the marriage.

“What does that mean to you? How do you see ‘us’ in that picture?”

“What do you think we can do to make that happen?”

“There are no children in the picture. Don’t you want children?”

“Who will handle the money? How can we share this responsibility so that we are saving to be able to have what we want?”

That will give you some idea. You can come up with your own.

What I am asking you to do is to get to the essence of the dream for your life together.

That dream is what you build into your vows. You wedding vows are not the dream explained; they are the foundation that the vows are build on.

Your vows are for the purpose of making promises to each other explaining what you will do to support the dream.

Now it’s time to tell your partner what you have done.

Use reason here. Don’t get cocky and say something like, “Ha, Ha, I tricked you into telling me your secrets.”

Tell him or her that you want to write vows based around what you just talked about. Get out some paper and then begin to write down those promises. If you can do it right then and there that is best because the emotion and expectations of and for the dream are at their peak.

Here is what you can say: “Let’s write down what we are going to do to keep our dreams alive?”

“I promise to keep myself physically and emotionally healthy for both our sakes.”

“I will love you by encouraging you to be successful in everything you do.”

“I promise to read our vows every day to keep the dream alive and active.”

You can find more helpful phrases in the FREE Ebook, 30 Minute Miracle. I wrote this for couples who don’t have time to use my longer version. It would be helpful for you using this ‘vision board’ process. (See sign up box)

There you have it. Your ‘vision vows.’

Was that fun or what!

Love, light and laughter,

Rev. Linda Bardes, The Wedding Vow Coach

Helping couples write down the dream and live it!

www.WeddingVowsandCeremonies.com

Writing Wedding Vows–Whose Model is it Anyway?

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

You will write your own personal and unique wedding vows based on certain expectations you have for your life. I refer to this as the dream you have for your life together. By being clear about the way your want your life together to be, writing it down as vows and then pledging and promising what you will do to keep those vows alive, thriving, vital and intimate you stand a better chance of living the life of your dreams.

Yet what if those dreams are almost entirely driven by the models you have had in your life? Your parents, your grandparents, your friends parents, and other couples close to you. All of them have influenced your life in ways you can’t imagine.

Those models drive the behaviors that run your relationships. Those behaviors are what I am referring to as your default operating system.

So I will ask you two questions: Are you repeating the behaviors of the people who came before you? Do you want to repeat those behaviors?

This is not a judgmental question. I ask it just so you will have to think about the answer.

Were your models strong, loving, supportive models or were they weak or dysfunctional?

That awareness and honesty can change your life!

I want you to get as clear as you can how you want your life to be like. Forget the ‘what is my purpose’ stuff. You can’t wait around to find out your purpose. Get clear about what you want your life to be like and create a dream from that. Your purpose will appear as you live your best life.

You do not have to throw out the baby with the bathwater, however. Be aware of what aspects of your models you want to keep. Forget about what you don’t want. You want to focus on the positive and life-enhancing attitudes and habits.

What you focus on is what you will reproduce! Which is why it is good if you train yourself to see only what supports the life you want to lead.

Review those vows over and over again. As you do that you keep that dream of the life you want to live in front of you. The way you react to life, to each other, to situations and experiences will begin to change because you begin to reprogram your default operating system.

You are going to add new emotional software that little by little erases and reprograms your life.

Then if anyone asks you, “Whose life is this anyway?” you will be able to answer, MINE!

Love, light and laughter,

Rev. Linda, The Wedding Vow Coach

Helping couples write down the dream and then live it!

www.WeddingVowsandCeremonies.com

Your Wedding Vows–A One-Page Miracle in Disguise

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Your wedding or commitment vows are actually a dream in disguise. They have the potential to attract to you, with absolute precision, what you really, really want, in your individual lives and the life of the marriage.

That won’t happen if you don’t have a clear and powerful dream and vision:

  • For yourself
  • For your spouse or partner
  • For your marriage or partnership

This is what I want you to know about why you must write your own wedding vows so they have a life beyond the end of the ceremony. . .

So they keep going and going and going . . .

So they live as long as the two of you do . . .

So they really can become a One Page Miracle!

You write your vows together in shared and inspired conversation, infusing the dream you have for your life together into every letter, word and sentence. You don’t actually write your dream word for word into your vows, however. Your vows are for the purpose of promising what it is you will do to keep the dream alive and sizzling. They are for the purpose of creating a one page miracle!

I want you to take a little time to get yourselves prepared before you sit down together to talk about your life and your vows.

Do you realize that most couples never take the time to talk about important things. Things like money and sex–the two most quoted reasons for divorce–and children and careers and spirituality or religion, or in-laws, or houses and cars and things are often never brought up.

Amazing!

Here’s a quote from someone who picked up one of the brochures for my one day event:

“I am going through a divorce right now. When I read your brochure I realized that my husband and I did not take any time to talk about important areas of our life. If we had a program like this I believe things would have been different!” Anne S.

Before you sit down together to write your vows take a little time to think about some of those areas of your married life.

Write each aspect or area out on a separate card. Then every once in a while pick up one card and carry it around with you. Place it in a conspicuous spot so you will be reminded of it. Then pay attention to the thoughts that pop into your head. Or the conversations you hear around you.

You may find articles in magazines, or turn on Oprah and right there is someone discussing that very topic. You will be surprised at where and how insights and thoughts or answers come to you.

When I say ‘you,’ I mean the two of you. This is not good if both of you are not engaged on some level in ‘big’ thinking.

I want you to come up with what some of the big thinkers refer to as Big Hairy Audacious Goals. You want your goals and your dreams to be too big for the two of you to effect on your own. I want you to tap into an invisible power that knows how to bring to you everything you need to be ‘living’ that BHAG.

You are going to have an amazing life that just keeps going and going and going and going because you are going to use one of the most important discoveries ever!

It’s this: Your subconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between what is real and what is imagined!

That one discovery about how the mind works has vast and very important implications for you because you can make your mind believe whatever you want.

You create a BIG dream, you write it into your vows by promising to do whatever it takes to live that dream, and then you keep reviewing those vows over and over and over until you have installed those vows as your personal operating system.

All that from your vows. I would call that a mega miracle in disguise!

Love, light and laughter,

Rev. Linda Bardes, The Wedding Vow Coach

Helping couples to write down the dream and then live it!

I help you to write down the dream in my Ebook, THE SECRET LIFE OF VOWS-How to Write Vows that Create Powerful Marriages and Partnerships.

Writing Wedding Vows–Tap Into the Sizzle of the Universe

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

The time around your wedding or commitment ceremony and the writing of your personal vows is the most highly charged time you will ever experience as a couple and you can consciously use it.

What happens is that there is all this energy and creative excitement focused around you and You and YOU! The florist, the caterer, the cake maker, the wedding planner, the wedding attire people, your family, the guests, absolutely everyone is focused on your best life.

This creates an energy that sizzles like an electrical storm. It’s the entire world praying on your behalf with absolutely no doubt of the outcome. Whatever you introduce into this storm is what will get taken up and reproduced in magical and mystical ways. I want you to consciously tap into this spiritual or universal potential. I want you to create strong, powerful personal wedding vows.

Those vows are like a super strong magnet. They become synergistic. That means that 1 + 1 does not equal 2 it equals 11!

There will only be a few times in your life as a couple that will carry the same positive attention and energy of so many people. This highly charged energy can be consciously directed to create a powerful future.

The power and potential that I am talking about comes from sitting down and having a shared conversation about what is important: To the marriage and to each of you individually. Do not go off into corners to write vows and surprise each other. I want you to weave magic by creating a strong and powerful intention and that has to be done together!

When you are mindful about what it is that you want to experience in your relationship and marriage, talk it out, play with it, shape it a bit, and write it into your vows. When you do that your vows become a powerful blueprint or intention for the future. You literally explode the probability of that dream being true.

Since the mind doesn’t know the difference between what is true and what isn’t–science has proven this–your mind and Higher Power goes to work bringing in people, things and experiences that support those powerful desires.

Please . . . do not squander this time.

Write powerful wedding or commitment vows. Dream BIG. Give the Universe something splendid to unfold for you. It’s just waiting for you to choose.

I can help you do that with my guidelines for writing ‘vows that create powerful marriages.” Check out the Secret Life of Wedding Vows.

Love, light and laughter,

Rev. Linda, The Wedding Vow Coach

Helping couples write down the dream and then live it.

Writing Personal Wedding Vows is Like Putting Money in the Bank!

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Wedding or commitment vows are for the purpose of creating dreams that give a couple passion for life and each other, according to Linda Bardes, ‘The Wedding Vow Coach’

The reason a couple writes their own personal wedding or commitment vows is to create an opportunity to sit down together and have what may well be the most important conversation the couple could ever have in their entire married life.

What I’m asking you to do is take a little time to create a mental picture of the life you want to lead. I want you to dream the biggest dream you can think of then deposit that into the treasury of your subconscious mind to create a Law of Attraction.

By talking about money and sex, careers, children , in-laws, religion or spirituality, houses and cars, travel, food, health, and philanthropy or any aspect of their marriage that will be of importance in the next 5-10 years, you will begin to infuse that dream into what could be called the operating system of your lives.

As you talk about the dream write it down on paper. This is for the purpose of getting it out and down on paper.

The dream is not the vows. The vows are a result of the dream. The vows are the promises you make to each other saying what each of you will do to keep that dream alive.”

I want you to be so inspired by the dream or vision you have of your life together that you will be willing to invest attention on making daily deposits into the emotional bank account of your marriage. Because, sooner or later you will have some challenges and if the bank account of your marriage is empty there will be nothing to draw on.”

Another aspect of writing vows that is is equally important is revisiting the vows.

When the ceremony is over, you are not finished with your vows. The power is in repeating those vows over and over and over again. Just like a pianist practices a symphony until it is installed in memory, so you will continues to review your vows every day until those vows becomes the chief operating system of your lives.

Sometimes you will read those vows alone and other times together. By reading them together you open doors for conversation. That way no problem or situation ever gets so completely off tract that you forget what the real problem is.

When you install your dream into your mind and your body so that it becomes a way of life, through the Law of Attraction everything you need to support your dream–the people, things, opportunities, ideas, and experiences–will show up almost effortlessly. Like a miracle.”

Indeed, you could call your vows a one-page-miracle because of the spiritual and emotional power infused in them.

I don’t want to tell you that there won’t be challenges. But if you keeps the vision or dream alive and vital, investing small amounts of physical and emotional currency, the marriage doesn’t have to be hard work. Intimacy thrives.

Reading those vows and putting attention on the little things, like saying ‘I love you’ every day, praising and complimenting each other often, never going to bed angry, holding hands for one minute every day, reading the vows every day, writing little notes, are all currency that will pay big dividends.”

You can find out more about Rev. Bardes and her work around writing wedding or commitment vows by following the RSS feed and at the main web page.

Love, light and laughter,

Rev. Linda, The Wedidng Vow Coach

Helping couples write down the dream and then live it!

 

Writing Wedding Vows–Start With ‘Thank You’

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Your personal wedding or commitment vows reflects the energy of the dream that you have for your life together. Every word, sentence or paragraph contains the whole of the dream even if the actual words do not. Why not start out with something like, “Thank you for being in my life.” or, “Thank you for seeing the best in me.” or, “Thank you for being willing to dream a big dream with me.”

The 4th commandment from the 10 Commandments of Marriage is: Say ‘Thank You” every day. Every day find a way to show appreciation to people you love and people who give you service. This also includes clerks, salespeople, wait staff, people who hold doors open, people who let you in traffic, etc. “Thank you,’ is Universal currency that pays BIG dividends.

This alone is an amazing tool. However, if you add commandment 5 and 6 every day you multiply the effects by 100. (See link below to access all commandments.)

Now, I don’t know if it’s 100 or 50 or 500 or 1,000. I do know that there is a universal law that is called cause and effect. What this means is that you are presented with the most amazing opportunities and gifts that reflect your thoughts, and your actions.

If you practice 4, 5, and 6 every day you automatically make everything a lot easier. Why make things hard if you don’t have to!

Follow this link to a printable copy of the 10 Commandments of Marriage. Print it out and put it up in a conspicuous place as an ‘in your face’ reminder of how to live your life and the life of your marriage or partnership.

Here’s a bonus for you. Today the weekly column from Harvey Mackay arrived in my mailbox with a fabulous message about showing appreciation and saying ‘thank you.’ It is well worth your while reading.

Love, light and laughter,

Rev. Linda, The Wedding Vow Coach

Helping couples write down the dream and then live it!

www.WeddingVowsandCeremonies.com

 

Writing Wedding Vows–It’s Wake Up Time For Your Cells

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

In case you thought I was joking about biochemistry and how it drives our lives and how by writing your own wedding vows and continuing to review those vows on a regular basis you can actually affect and sustain the level of intimacy in your relationship, I am adding a little copy that came in an Email from Joe Vitale. He is promoting the book, Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton.

“The Biology of Belief” will forever change how you think about your own thinking. Stunning new scientific discoveries about the biochemical effects of the brain’s functioning show that all the cells of your body are affected by your thoughts.

Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., a renowned cell biologist, describes the precise molecular pathways through which this occurs. Using simple language, illustrations, humor, and everyday examples, he demonstrates how the new science of Epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between mind and matter and the profound effects it has on our personal lives and the collective life of our species.

The line to pay attention to is the line ” all the cells of your body are affected by your thoughts.”

Remember that silly song, “Every little cell of my body is happy. Every little cell of my body is fine?” You can wake up your cells, introduce some positive affirmations (your wedding or commitment vows) and permanently live the life you have imagined.

I am suggesting that you write your wedding or commitment vows as a result of a shared conversation. Talk about your life together and visit aspects of your marriage or partnership, such as money, sex, family, careers, houses, cars, etc. Get emotional, exaggerate your dream.

What you are doing is energizing, entertaining and installing an actual physical chemical pattern. When you continue to revisit and reinvigorate that pattern by rereading your vows over and over and over and over again eventually it becomes permanent. At some point, just like learning to play the piano, you will have committed that pattern to memory and you will be playing, or living, it with ease.

I am asking you to consciously give voice to a dream or vivid vision that you pledge or promise to support in your vows and then continue to review those vows over and over and over and over.

In your case you are not so much trying to change your thoughts as to take the passion and persistence that you arrived at in your relationship and maintain it, heighten it and expand it in beautiful and measurable ways that then becomes your every day experience. With ease. That’s what I mean about your vows affecting your biochemistry.

This is incredible stuff.

As Jeff Herrick, the Article Guy says, “Go use this stuff!” (GUTS)

There’s a link to Bruce Lipton’s book, Biology of Belief, on the sidebar and here’s a link to my Ebook, THE SECRET LIFE OF WEDDING VOWS. This will help you get that cell transforming dream down on paper.

Love, light and laughter,

Rev. Linda Bardes, The Wedding Vow Coach

Helping couples write down the dream and then live it!

www.WeddingVowsandCeremonies.com