How do you know you are successfully navigating an authentic relationship?

Authentic relationship is one of the most important teachings on the spiritual path. How do you know you are successfully navigating an authentic relationship? If you are in relationship at all. If you are connecting or in relationship with someone, but it's a rule-based relationship, meaning it's static, like all or nothing, black or white, then you're not in relationship.

You are in a codependent pretend relationship. But a real relationship is a multifaceted, highly complex, ever-changing landscape of trust and preferences and focus on yourself and focus on the other. Learn to hold your world and someone else's world at the same time. Learn to hold your safe place in your abdomen that you've cultivated and the scary fear of abandonment in your heart at the same time.

And then the natural relationship that will arise out of holding both at the same time will heal the fear of abandonment. Hi, I'm Scott, a spiritual teacher guiding people through spiritual awakening by embracing our humanness.