Imagine: you and your partner sit on the floor opposite each other. Between you is a bowl of water.
You must silently look into each other's eyes for exactly 7 minutes, and then simultaneously lower your hands into the water. Sounds like a shamanic ritual?
This is exactly what couples in the Amazon tribes did when they felt that the connection was weakening.
Modern psychologists, having studied this ritual, have discovered something amazing: synchronous actions without words activate the same areas of the brain as the first months of falling in love. But why does it work?
When we are silent, social masks disappear - only body language remains. You notice how your partner blinks, how his lip trembles with tension, how the rhythm of his breathing changes.
It takes you back to the moment you first met - before words, promises and expectations. But most couples fail the first time. The reason?
We have forgotten how to be vulnerable. One starts laughing from nervousness, the other looks away. This is normal. Try repeating the ritual every other day, reducing the time to 3 minutes.
Within a week, you'll find a new kind of intimacy emerging between you—as if you were learning to love all over again. And yes, a cup of water is optional.
Even washing dishes together in silence will do. The secret is not in magic, but in stopping filling the silences with words.
