As men and women find that they can no longer rely on old roles and formulas to get along, intimate relationships call for a new kind of honesty and awareness, a willingness to let go of old patterns and cultivate new capacities. Journey of the Heart shows how we can rise to this challenge by learning to use whatever difficulties we face in relationships as opportunities to expand our sense of who we are and deepen our capacity to connect with others. This is the path of conscious love.
As men and women find that they can no longer rely on old roles and formulas to get along, intimate relationships call for a new kind of honesty an...
Unlike other guides that focus on how to make relationships work, this groundbreaking book teaches couples how their relationships can make their lives work. Combining the practical advice of Harville Hendrix with the spiritual guidance of Thomas Moore, it shows couples how their relationships can help them discover their sacred selves in such chapters as "The Power of Truth-Telling," "The Inner Marriage," "Men In Relationship" and "Soulwork and Sacred Combat." Along the way, it provides a wealth of practical guidance on how to deal with difficult problems and includes lively dialogues from...
Unlike other guides that focus on how to make relationships work, this groundbreaking book teaches couples how their relationships can make their live...
Can a meditative practice assist and promote the healing relationship between psychotherapist and patient? The notable contributors to this practical book draw on a wide range of Eastern and Western disciplines--psychoanalysis, Gestalt, Aikido, and various Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist contemplative traditions--to show that it can. What they propose is a meeting between the Western psychotherapeutic approach--grounded in working with the personal problems and the need to carve out a strong awareness of self--and Eastern tradition, which emphasizes a larger kind of awareness and equanimity as...
Can a meditative practice assist and promote the healing relationship between psychotherapist and patient? The notable contributors to this practical ...
This powerful collection of essays by such notables as D. H. Lawrence, Robert Bly, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Rainer Maria Rilke focuses on the challenges of love between men and women, addressing the questions and difficulties arising for people in relationships today. Anyone who is, has been, or hopes to be in an intimate relationship with a person of the opposite sex will find this book "must" reading. The first group of essays deals with the contradictions and possibilities inherent in erotic love, leading to the question posed in the next section: What do men and women really want?...
This powerful collection of essays by such notables as D. H. Lawrence, Robert Bly, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Rainer Maria Rilke focuses on the challe...
Wie lassen sich spirituelle Verwirklichung und die psychologischen Einsichten des Westens miteinander verbinden? Wie knnen wir die Entwicklung des Individuums mit der spirituellen Suche nach dem vershnen, das hinter dem Selbst liegt? John Welwood geht diese Fragen mit auerordentlicher Sorgfalt und in aller Tiefe an. Seine Psychologie der Erleuchtung bringt drei wesentliche Bereiche menschlichen Seins zusammen - persnlich, interpersonell und berpersnlich -, die bislang von noch keiner einzigen westlichen oder stlichen Tradition in einen Gesamtzusammenhang integriert wurden. In dieser...
Wie lassen sich spirituelle Verwirklichung und die psychologischen Einsichten des Westens miteinander verbinden? Wie knnen wir die Entwicklung des Ind...
Die Schönheit und Großartigkeit der Liebe ist grenzenlos. Wie kommt es aber, dass es uns in Liebesbeziehungen meist nicht gelingt, dieses unermessliche Potential voll auszuschöpfen?Sensibel und poetisch schildert John Welwood den Grund unseres Scheiterns: Die meisten Menschen leiden unter einer tiefsitzenden emotionalen Verletzung, die all unsere Beziehungen sabotiert.Viele von uns können nicht wirklich glauben, dass sie, so wie sie sind, liebenswert sind.John Welwood hilft den Lesern, diese Wunde des Herzens zu verstehen und zu sehen, wie sie unsere Beziehungen formt. Dabei geht es...
Die Schönheit und Großartigkeit der Liebe ist grenzenlos. Wie kommt es aber, dass es uns in Liebesbeziehungen meist nicht gelingt, dieses unermessli...