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The connection between the ‘bondage of mind’ and the ‘bondage of the body’ as found in the southern ideology justifying slavery; The notion of slavery seems foreign to the majority of people today, but for our ancestors and Frederick Douglass it was a very real part of life. The concept of slavery is one that people today find unfathomable, particularly in the justification of slavery and why people owned slaves. The institution of slavery is as old as civilization itself existing in various forms throughout the world, history and remarkably, continues to exist in some people’s lives today. The historical common denominator is that enslavement of another human being has been more often than not involuntary. Sometimes people sold themselves into slavery as a means of survival as is seen with English indentured servants coming from England to the “New world” in the early 1500’s. These indentured servants would enter a contract with their master and after a period of time would fulfill their obligation and then be released to continue and pursue their lives. However, most forms of slavery were not voluntary and these people would be forced into enslavement via becoming prisoners of war, punishment for illegal or criminal conduct, failure to pay debts, sold by parents or chieftains, birthed by a slave, or transferred from one master to another through sale or inheritance.

Toxic relationships are the most addictive drugs to the heart. They become the air to our lungs and the reason for our hearts to beat. However, realizing how harmful they are and letting go seems to be like taking in the last breath. Officially ending my hazardous relationship of over five years seemed to be detrimental to my life. However, closing the door to my past life opened up new opportunities for me such as learning to love myself, improving myself and connecting with others.

Throughout our lives, everyone that we share bonds with and interact with on a regular basis, either forms or has some sort of influence on our identity. Consequently, the majority of us naturally find ourselves striving to fit in with these people, especially during the tough transition from childhood to adulthood. It is this part of the human condition that makes us feel as though we must forge ties with something outside of ourselves in order to establish a strong sense of existence and a clear understanding of who we are. Although most individuals are able to make these connections with others naturally, others who stray from the social norm might not be so fortunate, but rather than

Relationships are basically, what makes the world go round. All provide a sense of personal fulfillment, whether it'd be positive or negative. A good example are companies. Companies make strong relationships with their customers, in turn, customers spend more money buying their wares. Another example is the relationship between parents and children. Two texts that focus on these relationships are; “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan. The texts heavily revolve around the familial connection between a parent and a daughter. Actually, it s so emphasized on that connection, you might say to yourself,”Why is this so important?” It's important because connections go hand in hand with personal fulfillment. Explanations

The four spheres of relationships are as follows; the relationship with God, the relationship with family or home, relationship with church and believers, and the relationship with the world. The most important sphere is the relationship with God. This sphere or the relationship with God needs to be vibrant, fresh, and personal. All of the other spheres will work or be in line when our relationship with God is in line.

Loyalty brings people together and keep bonds between spirits close, even if two are not together

Yet, Cobb additionally realized that the North, and in fact the vast majority of the rest of the Western world, accepted subjection was on a very basic level wrong and unethical. In this manner, one of Cobb 's objectives in his Inquiry was to persuade legal counselors outside the South that bondage was steady with American law, great open arrangement, Christian ethical quality, and the regular request of things. Cobb did not simply team up with an arrangement of malevolence, he strived to recast the very thought of shrewd to expel subjugation from inside its definition.

There has been many assumptions and analyses of how African and African American slaves felt about their bondage and how they perceived freedom without ever experiencing it. Kenneth M. Stampp, Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, and Eugene Genovese have each made analyses detailing the different aspects of slave attitudes and key viewpoints backed up with factual evidence to support their ideas. These interpretations present personal slave accounts and can be construed in many ways.

One example comes from a young woman in her mid-twenties who was sought to keep everyone at arms distance, never getting close to anyone, indicative of an avoidant attachment style. When confronted about her distance from others, the client explained to me that it is dangerous to let others’ get close (personal communication, 2017). Thinking from the attachment theory perspective, having parents who did not attend to her needs led my client to understand that she must keep others at a distance because will not take care of her, her internal working model. With the understanding of her internal working model and attachment style, I approached treatment by helping the client learn to create a safe attachment with me where I modeled appropriate boundaries and helped the client balance her closeness and distance, working to help heal her attachment style and change her internal working model. Over the course of treatment, the client learned she could begin to trust and develop a relationship with me which, in turn, increases her ability to create a relationship with others in her life and future therapists with whom she may engage in treatment with in the

According Stroebe & Schut, (2005 p. 477 cited in Root & Exline, 2014) continuing bonds can be defined as a “presence of a continuing inner relationship with the person who is deceased by the bereaved person”. For example, continuing bonds could be holding onto the memory of the deceased person by remembering the deceased, telling stories related to the deceased and keeping possessions that once belonged to the deceased (Root & Exline, 2014).

Your relationships also need optimal support to repair the damage caused by toxic thoughts and actions, to rebuild

Another characteristic of the Christian mystical union is the concept of a spiritual or heavenly marriage. The use of the image of sacred and spiritual marriage between God and one’s soul is a symbolization of the mystical union. The idea of a wedding is the biblical metaphor of the Jewish covenant between Israel and God. The ultimate goal of the mystical experience is the union between oneself and the divine presence and of the contemplative way. The mystical union is arrived at in stages of

Connection, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary: “A relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or associated with something else”. We make connections every single day. Some connections are prominent and some are short lived and insignificant. Connections help shape us and are the base of our beliefs and values. For some people, connecting with people means being friends with them, or knowing them extremely well. For me, connecting to someone is as simple as holding the door open for someone at the movies, or picking up something a classmate drops instead of stepping over it.

When a client attends individual therapy, the focus is traditionally on the client and their internal thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. A relational therapy would encourage an inward look, but also a recognition that the goal of therapy is to help the client not to understand themselves through introspection, but to relate to others well and to experience belonging (Slife & Wiggins, 2009). RACT theorizes that interpersonal problems are often what bring clients into the therapy room and good relational connections with the therapist and others is often what they are looking for. As Wachtel (2008) explains, relational therapy is less of an interview or an examination and more of a conversation. Relational therapy is a relationship and has the potential to be a good healing one as therapist and client(s) work towards common goals.

Within the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Sacred Mystery of Marriage recognises, under the church, the union of the couple; however God's union of the couple has been in progress throughout the relationship. The married couple's unity represents the unity between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; the joy, sadness and suffering that the couple experiences throughout their marriage emulates Jesus' own life, death and resurrection.