A Conscious Love: Fifty Ways to Remain in Love

By Tonya Molton

Self-love is the beginning of any good relationship and is vital to all connections. Self-love is the breath of life to a relationship. What you put into any association is what you will get out of it. Love is the key to living a full life.

A Conscious Love, by author Tonya Molton, offers an interactive daily awareness journal revolving around the theme of love. Each selection offers a spiritual-based discussion of love, relationships, life, and living. It provides little pearls of wisdom and asks life-changing questions which promote conscious thinking about love. Space at the end of each chapter allows you to chart daily your thoughts and growth.

In A Conscious Love, Molton communicates that love isnt easy so we must consciously make an effort and put in the work to grow any relationship of love, the love of a spouse, a partner, a child, a family member, or simply a friendship.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Aug 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781532002847

Tonya Molton

Tonya Molton, is a single mother, an author, an inspirational speaker, poet, and a real estate broker. She is an advocate for self-wholeness and is dedicated to spiritual growth and uplifting others. Tonya is the author of A Conscious Love and Baby Boy, This Is for You & My Sisters, Too. She currently lives in Tampa, Florida.

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Contents

1 Prepare My Walk

2 Limit My Heart

3 Attract Me to My Love

4 Golden Years

5 A Foundation That Stands

6 Love Lives Where It’s Accepted

7 Wisdom Works

8 Love That Resonates

9 My Daily Fresh Start

10 Walking Backward, Moving Forward

11 Crossing the Bridge

12 Soaring (Going Higher)

13 Roots That Connect

14 Rivers That Run Deep Silently Flow

15 Rekindle

16 Soft Words

17 Speaking Words That Count

18 Touching Where It Hurts

19 Your Childhood Developed Your Heart

20 Blinded Eyes Do See: Everyone Has Faults

21 Accumulating Clouds

22 A Sealed Heart Can’t Feel

23 A Path That’s Walked Brings New Discoveries

24 Water That Flows Freely Fills Empty Places

25 How You Feel Exudes from Your Daily Living

26 Ears Can Feel the Heart: Listen, Don’t Speak

27 A Captured Mind: What You Think Is How You Will React

28 Grace Is a Gift

29 A Love That Lifts

30 Success Is Being Prepared and Always Learning

31 Eyes Tell the Story

32 Love Is a Beautiful Gift

33 Heaven on Earth

34 Plan to Be Happy, and Work at It

35 Plan and Prepare to Be Married

36 Plan to Stay Married: Continuing Education and Work

37 Twenty Years Starts Today

38 Look Deep: The First Page Isn’t the Entire Book

39 What You Entertain Will Be Your Life

40 Let Your First Date Be Your Last Date

41 A Sincere Heart Loves the Hardest

42 Spoken Words Build Your Home

43 Connecting Flights

44 Live Your Best Life: It Will Show

45 Stay in Your Lane: Don’t Cross the Road

46 Head in the Sand

47 Wait for Self-Love before Attempting to Love Another

48 Time Will Tell, So Stop Watching the Clock

49 Sell Yourself, Not Your Soul

50 Who You Are Inside Will Attract and Mirror Who You Are Outside

Dedication and Prayer

Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will succeed.

Proverbs 16:3 NLT

Thank You, God, through whom all my blessings flow. Lord, thank You for the opportunity to receive love and to give love freely.

Bless and keep my grandsons, Ely and Emari, and surround them with love. I will always love the both of you! Poo Pooh!

Love mirrors the heart and soul. What’s reflecting from you?

1

Prepare My Walk

All our preparation for any task is useless without God. But even with God’s help, we must do our part and prepare. His control of the outcome does not negate our responsibilities. God may want you to produce a great book, but you must learn to write. God will accomplish His purpose, and He will be able to use you if you have done your part by being prepared.

Great relationships aren’t built overnight. Couples that have been married for a long time will tell you that they had to put work into what is always in progress. Keeping the fire going and keeping their marriage intact took time and patience, and most important, they had to work at it. It didn’t just happen.

We look at some people and think, Look at those two lovebirds. I wish my spouse would hold me like that and stare into my eyes too. Yes, we hear fireworks bursting in the air; we see the band marching behind them and the sun slowly setting as their backdrop. Everything seems like the perfect picture. But we only get to see a glimpse of their relationship: the upside of their down. The truth is they are where they are in their relationship because of hard work and dedication to each other. That happy couple took the time to invest in their relationship.

In O magazine’s February 2003 issue, an article called Old Wives Tales includes information from interviews of several couples, asking how they stayed together for so long.

The wives were asked three simple questions:

1. How did you know he was the one?

2. What made it last?

3. What advice can you give?

Everyone had a different story to tell, but the answers boiled down to respect, honor, and loving one another.

There is no magic wand to wave, no hocus-pocus, and certainly no magic when it comes to making a relationship work. I love the answers that some of the wives gave, but one stuck to my heart like glue. When asked What made it last? part of her answer was "We stimulate each other intellectually; and