Handling Conflicts with your partner

I will start this off with a short game which we played at one of Art of Living Courses.

You will need one partner for playing this game , just ask for your brother , sister or friend or anyone nearby which you can ask for playing this game for a while.

Got one partner ,shall we start ?

These instructions are for both you and your partner , just go through all of these and then you are ready to play.

Just close your eyes , and think of any one corner of the house in which we are sitting in your mind , don't speak up just think of that corner in your mind and try to see what you can see at that place.

Both of you can open your eyes , now by any means you have to take your partner to corner which you thought in your mind , your partner have to take you to that place which he thought in his mind.

Just play this game and come back within 1 min..... I will tell what we did that other day when we played the game and what lesson we learnt with this game.

All of people which were present in the course were pushing and fighting with each other to force each other to take him/her to corner of house in mind which they thought of , in time span of 1 min we all were fighting pushing each other hard , and ....time was over....we all were in the same place pushing each other , no one was able to take his or her partner to place he thought of.....

Getting something? still no?

Our teacher called all of us back and asked us to review what we were asked to do?

We said , we have to take our partner to our corner by any means?

Then teacher said , were you able to do that , we all said NO.

We said time was less and we all were not able to do that within that time ,

Teacher said was this solution possible

You could have told your partner , which corner you thought of and which corner your partner chose. And within time limit you could have ran to cover both of corners.

Stunned !

We all were , we were just busy fighting and time ended up.Often we end up in deadlock and conflicts with our spouses at home on minor issues which are all possible to be dealt with talks. Almost 95% of conflicts which we face each day can be easily dealt with talks and conversation.

Just think over for this , I hope you enjoyed the story , thanks for reading keep sending your comments , I shall be very happy to reply to you.