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Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart
While most of us have moments of loving freely and openly, it is often hard to sustain this where it matters most—in our intimate relationships. Why, if love is so great and powerful, are human relationships so challenging and difficult? If love is the source of happiness and joy, why is it so hard to open to it fully and let it govern our lives? In this book, John Welwood addresses these questions and shows us how to overcome the most fundamental obstacle that keeps us from experiencing love's full flowering in our lives. Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships begins by showing how all our relational problems arise out of a universal, core wounding around love that affects not only our personal relationships but the quality of life in our world as a whole. This wounding shows up as a pervasive mood of unlove—a deep sense that we are not intrinsically lovable just as we are. And this shuts down our capacity to trust, so that even though we may hunger for love, we have difficulty opening to it and letting it circulate freely through us. This book takes the reader on a powerful journey of healing and transformation that involves learning to embrace our humanness and appreciate the imperfections of our relationships as trail-markers along the path to great love. It sets forth a process for releasing deep-seated grievances we hold against others for not loving us better and against ourselves for not being better loved. And it shows how our longing to be loved can magnetize the great love that will free us from looking to others to find ourselves. Written with penetrating realism and a fresh, lyrical style that honors the subtlety and richness of our relationship to love itself, this revolutionary book offers profound and practical guidance for healing our lives as well as our embattled world. A workshop based on this book is also available in audio. For more information, click here. .
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Journey of the Heart: The Path of Conscious Love
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Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation
How can we connect the spiritual realizations of Buddhism with the psychological insights of the West? In Toward a Psychology of Awakening John Welwood addresses this question with comprehensiveness and depth. Along the way he shows how meditative awareness can help us develop more dynamic and vital relationships and how psychotherapy can help us embody spiritual realization more fully in everyday life. Welwood's psychology of awakening brings together the three major dimensions of human experience: personal, interpersonal, and suprapersonal, in one overall framework of understanding and practice..
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Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship
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 Welwood's workshops that dynamically illustrate his core ideas. Men and women are searching for deeper meaning and purpose in their everyday lives and relationships. Love and Awakening fills this need. It is a book couples will want to read together..
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Ordinary Magic
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Challenge of The Heart: Love, Sex, and Intimacy in Changing Times
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? The contributors ten explore marriage as an ongoing path of personal transformation. That opens into a look at sexuality itself as an especially vivid meeting of two different worlds. The book closes with a group of writings that consider relationship as a vehicle for developing power, wisdom, and inner truth. Carefully selected, threaded together by Welwood's insightful commentary, the essays presented here approach the challenge of intimacy with bravery and gentleness, inspiring the reader toward becoming a "warrior of the heart.".
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James Welwood: Physician To The Glorious Revolution (Signpost Biographies)
Dr. James Welwood (1652-1727) might have preferred a quiet life of medicine and Classical scholarship. Instead, he had the fortune, or misfortune, to be a talented political writer during the turbulent years of England's transition from the Stuart to the Hanoverian monarchy. Having to choose between Scottish and German claimants to the throne left many Englishmen with mixed feelings, and the contending factions needed skilled writers to turn out political pamphlets and newspapers, aimed at the increasingly literate British public. It was in this arena that Dr. Welwood was to find his true calling.Welwood was born into a Scottish family heavily involved in the convoluted religious debates of the day. Political, religious, and scientific issues of the time tended to overlap, and Welwood's early years in Scotland proved to be good training for a political career later in life. During the 1680s, the political situation in the British Isles finally became too hot for Welwood, forcing him to flee to the Continent, where he eventually got his medical degree. During the years of exile Welwood became acquainted with the Dutch prince William of Orange and his English wife Mary. When William and Mary were offered the throne of England as part of the so-called "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, Welwood returned to Britain with them. William and Mary's supporters in Parliament soon recognized Welwood's writing ability and drew him into the numerous controversies that plagued the rest of the reign. Welwood was given several official medical posts, but used his position, not for personal gain, but to advance the latest scientific discoveries against the entrenched English medical establishment. After the deaths of William and Mary and their successor Queen Anne, the nearest heir to the throne was Prince George of Hanover, staunchly Protestant, and thus acceptable to the majority of Englishmen. James Welwood's later years were devoted to his family, his private practice and his scholarly writing. However, the elderly court physician was to be drawn into one last intrigue shortly before his death. A potential scandal had developed between the Prince of Wales, his mistress, and the lady's husband. Due to his long personal acquaintance with all involved, Welwood was asked by court officials to discreetly negotiate a settlement in the case.Elizabeth Furdell's biography is a colorful evocation of England in the "Augustan" age, whose studied manners concealed a world of intrigue and discontent. This unique era produced the writings of Welwood's famous contemporaries Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, and Jonathan Swift. .
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