Alchemy of Love
Finding Love, Harmony and Happiness
1st Edition
Published on 30. May 2014
334 pages
978-1-78279-115-7 (ISBN)
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The ultimate is to have love and find happiness. All aspects of love, from biochemistry to Buddhism, from passion to peacefulness, and from yang to yin, converge on happiness. Your spiritual journey to love and happiness involves first overcoming traumas and disillusionment. Your journey becomes lovely through alignment with your immutable inner being and its beauty. Love then begins to radiate from you and to you through natural law. This blooming of love is alchemical, where the dark tyranny of your ego is outshone by the illuminated world of beauty and love. Finding true romance involves understanding our deep emotions and biology, while being aware of higher consciousness. This leads to happiness through enthusiasm and joy. This book shows you how to discover love, harmony and happiness following ancient paths combined with a modern knowledge of how we feel relative to our greater awareness and functioning of the cosmos.
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Michael Samways has a PhD from London University and is Professor and Chair of the Department of Conservation Ecology & Entomology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- 1 How this book came about
- The overall picture
- My personal journey
- 2 Life's formula
- Your life plan
- Feeling fundamental love
- How do we know that there is inner being and beauty?
- How do we give out love?
- The path towards full consciousness
- You and your connections with all the cosmos
- On death and delight
- Life's Formula - summary
- 3 A strategy for getting on track
- Better to have done it than never tried
- What sort of person are you, really?
- Our deep roots
- The Mexican fisherman
- Beauty, and passion too
- What we can learn from Helen Keller
- The 50 percent rule
- A Strategy for Getting on Track - summary
- 4 You are free to choose your path
- Time of ages
- Who said life was easy, or even fair
- Dealing with downers
- Big knocks, small steps forward
- Living the moment
- Experiencing love, giving love
- Never too late
- You are Free to Choose your Path - summary
- 5 Finding your life path
- Having a clear picture of your spiritual goal
- Positive thinking, with sincerity
- Know yourself
- Recognizing your talents
- The envy trap
- Setting goals
- Being in control of your own destiny
- Your beliefs are important
- Finding your Life Path - summary
- 6 Becoming aware of your inner being
- Be content with yourself
- Your universe
- Deflect pressures from the ego
- Value the quiet moments
- We make the bed that we lie in
- If it's not working, move on, now
- Carpe diem
- Happiness is a reward, not a goal
- Knowing your loyalties
- Stand back and look at yourself
- Dealing with your bad thoughts
- Dealing with obsessions
- Your no-regret strategy
- You are still learning!
- Becoming Aware of your Inner Being - summary
- 7 Love your body
- Self-image and appreciation
- Being brave
- Hygiene and health
- Appreciating the chakras
- All things in moderation
- Little treats
- Your physical environment
- Vive la difference!
- Beautiful body signals
- Love your Body - summary
- 8 Feeling beauty and finding enjoyment
- The breath of life
- Water love
- Think young
- Laugh and feel good
- Just make it happen
- Pas de panique!
- Exercise
- 3 × 8 rule
- Feeling Beauty and Finding Enjoyment - summary
- 9 Senses, passion and motivation
- Seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting
- Colors to enhance your life
- Resonating with your inner beauty
- Passion
- Comfort and security
- Proactivity, love and happiness
- Motivation
- Feel, no matter how busy you are
- Senses, Passion and Motivation - summary
- 10 Tuning into your subtle senses
- Mysticism
- Sacredness
- Chakras and color therapy
- Colors, tones and hues
- Rapid appraisal
- Realizing your intuition
- Giving thanks
- The discipline of staying tuned
- Seeing behind you
- Fine tuning intuition
- Releasing fear
- Feeling what is right and good
- Tuning into your Subtle Senses - summary
- 11 Finding your partner
- You and your special zone
- Going about the search
- Striking up a conversation
- Body harmony and touch
- Growing a relationship
- Physical passion
- When it does not go as well as you thought it would
- Finding your Partner - summary
- 12 For men only
- It is ok: we are biologically different!
- What women really want
- Wooing a woman
- Reading the rings
- Messages from other jewelry
- Fallacy of the fantasy of being single
- Understanding a woman
- A bit of the beast
- For Men only - summary
- 13 Loving family and friends
- Simply saying hello
- Empathy
- Support and caring
- Honor
- Home harmony
- Better communication, better relationships
- Kindly criticism
- Finding a mutual path of progress
- Respect in a relationship
- Truth in a relationship
- Prosperity and your financial comfort zone
- Your beliefs
- Loving Family and Friends - summary
- 14 Traveling your path
- The unfolding of your path
- Love and time
- Balancing goal setting with enjoyment of life
- Organizing your life, your day
- Letting go, and dumping anger
- Overcoming 6s and 7s
- Creative thinking
- Po
- Enjoy a challenge
- Nothing ventured, nothing gained.together
- Perseverance
- Building buffers
- Get into a positive feedback cycle
- Always end on a positive note
- Traveling your Path - summary
- 15 A personal guide for discovering the Alchemy of Love
- Life's formula
- A strategy for getting on track
- You are free to choose your path
- Finding your life path
- Becoming aware of your inner being
- Love your body
- Feeling beauty and finding enjoyment
- Senses, passion and motivation
- Tuning into your subtle senses
- Finding your partner
- For men only
- Loving family and friends
- Traveling your path
- Notes and references
