The Conscious Heart
Seven Soul-Choices That Create Your Relationship Destiny
Published on 30. December 2009
320 pages
978-0-307-57308-7 (ISBN)
Description
Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks are two of today's foremost relationship experts. Their bestselling book Conscious Loving has already become essential reading for tens of thousands of couples. Now, in The Conscious Heart, they identify the seven commitments that can transform from the inside out.
These seven simple--but powerful--choices enable couples to:
Use conflict to create greater understanding
Overcome the fears and defenses that block intimacy
Resolve struggles for control
Increase generosity and appreciation
Deepen passion, commitment, and aliveness
Release the creativity of each partner
Filled with numerous true-life stories--including how the authors survived and grew from their own midlife marital crisis--The Conscious Heart is an inspiring and instructive affirmation of the ultimate power of love.
These seven simple--but powerful--choices enable couples to:
Use conflict to create greater understanding
Overcome the fears and defenses that block intimacy
Resolve struggles for control
Increase generosity and appreciation
Deepen passion, commitment, and aliveness
Release the creativity of each partner
Filled with numerous true-life stories--including how the authors survived and grew from their own midlife marital crisis--The Conscious Heart is an inspiring and instructive affirmation of the ultimate power of love.
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Seven Soul-Choices That Create Your Relationship Destiny
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Persons
Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., and Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., are nationally known psychotherapists, teachers and workshop leaders. They have been partners in life and work for twenty years, and direct the Hendricks Institute in Santa Barbara, California.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments and Gratitude
- A Personal Welcome
- Part One: The Path of the Conscious Heart
- Introduction: Plum-Blossom Courage
- One: How We Found the Conscious Heart of Our Own Relationship
- Two: The Master Commitment That Opens the Conscious Heart
- Three: Seven Soul-Commitments That Allow the Conscious Heart to Thrive
- Four: How to Keep from Sabotaging Your Commitments
- Five: Moving Through Seven Waves of Intimacy, Navigating with Seven Soul-Choices
- Part Two: Sex, Money, and the Conscious Heart
- Introduction: Sex and Money Are Springboards to Essence
- Six: Breakup or Breakthrough How We Confronted a Sexual Crisis
- Seven: Consciously Creating Abundance Dealing with Money Issues
- Part Three: The Conscious Heart in Action
- Introduction: Twenty-one Lessons on the Path
- 1/ Finding Balance
- 2/Cultivating Curiosity
- 3/When a Troublesome Pattern Repeats
- 4/When You Don't Feel Loved
- 5/Creating Space for Essence
- 6/The Essence of Play
- 7/Expressing Gratitude
- 8/Blending a Family
- 9/Deepening Your Connection with Essence and Creativity
- 10/Respect
- 11/When Roles and Rhythms Change
- 12/Dealing with a Life Transition: Menopause
- 13/Sexual Energy as an Evolutionary Force
- 14/Stretching Your Relationship
- 15/Dealing with a Betrayal
- 16/Finding Stillness in the Midst of Busy-ness
- 17/Dealing with Illness and Aging
- 18/Removing Projections
- 19/Synchronicity: Making Friends with the Universe
- 20/Healing Old Traumas
- 21/Moving from Persona-Sex to Essence-Sex
- Part Four: The Essential Practices
- Introduction: Six Exercises in Transformation
- 1/Conscious Listening
- 2/Making Soul-Commitments
- 3/The Essence-Meditations
- 4/Balancing Power
- 5/Ending Control Struggles
- 6/Developing Appreciation
- About the Authors
