Search results for ""author robert augustus masters""

Emotions link our feelings, thoughts, and conditioning at multiple levels, but they may remain a largely untapped source of strength, freedom, and connection. The capacity to be intimate with all our emotions, teaches Robert Augustus Masters, is essential for creating fulfilling relationships and living with awareness, love, and integrity. With Emotional Intimacy, this respected therapist and author invites us to explore: How to deepen our emotional literacy and become intimate with all our emotions • The nature of emotional disconnection and what to do about it • How to identify our emotions, fully experience them, and skillfully express them • Illuminating, resolving, and healing old emotional wounds • Gender differences in emotional intimacy and expression • Steps for bringing greater emotional intimacy and depth into our relationships • In-depth guidance for those facing depression, anxiety, and shame • Why "blowing off steam" may make us feel worse, and the nature of healthy catharsis • The difference between anger and aggression, shame and guilt, jealousy and envy • Individual chapters for fully engaging with fear, anger, joy, jealousy, shame, grief, guilt, awe, and the full spectrum of our emotions There are no negative or unwholesome emotions—only negative or harmful things we do with them. Through real life examples, exercises, and an abundance of key insights, Masters provides a lucid guide for reclaiming our emotions, relating to them skillfully, and turning them into allies—to enrich and deepen our lives.

Read more less

"Why are the people around me so difficult?" "Why do I keep getting in situations like this?" Our shadow side, teaches Robert Augustus Masters, contains the emotions and desires we've disowned, neglected, or hidden from ourselves. If not skillfully worked with, it can easily direct our lives on every level. With Knowing Your Shadow, this acclaimed psychotherapist and author shows us how to illuminate and wisely engage with the endarkened aspects of who we are. Join him to explore in depth the areas where shadow work can most benefit us, including: Discovering and cultivating intimacy with the endarkened aspects of yourself • Identifying and healing your core wounds • Working effectively with anger, fear, shame, guilt, and other difficult emotions • Understanding how your shadow influences those around you, often beyond conscious awareness • Guided practices, meditations, and exercises for developing more authenticity and wholeness in your personal and workplace relationships, your sexuality, and your spiritual path Our moods and relationships often seem to have a life of their own. Knowing Your Shadow offers exceptional support for taking charge of your life at a deep level, providing expert guidance and instruction to discover and make wise use of what lies hidden or otherwise neglected within us. Learn More About: Becoming intimate with your shadow • Relating wisely to shame and guilt • Ending your suffering by entering your pain • Exploring the presence of your past • Freeing yourself from your inner critic • Working with fear, anger, and other darker emotions • Bringing sex out of the shadows—how we eroticize our unmet needs • The signs of spiritual bypassing • Healthy spirituality • Becoming intimate with all that you are Music by Diane Bardwell Course objectives: Discuss how to discover and cultivate intimacy with the endarkened aspects of yourself including core wounds and difficult emotions • Explain how your shadow influences those around you, often beyond conscious awareness • Define the signs of spiritual bypassing versus healthy spirituality • Discuss how to free yourself from your inner critic • Summarize how to become intimate with all that you are • Utilize guided practices, meditations, and exercises for developing more authenticity and wholeness in your personal and workplace relationships, your sexuality, and your spiritual path Knowing Your Shadow—Session Titles Session 1: Becoming Intimate with Your Shadow Session 2: Becoming Intimate with Your Reactivity and Pain Session 3: Relating Wisely to Your Inner Critic, Shame, and Guilt Session 4: Becoming Intimate with Your Darker Emotions Session 5: Bringing Sex Out of the Shadows Session 6: Spirituality's Shadow

Read more less

Many men—despite achieving great jobs and lifestyles—find themselves burdened with dissatisfaction, disconnection, and self-doubt. Robert Augustus Masters has helped thousands of men work through such issues, by facing their unresolved wounds and shame, bringing their head, heart, and guts into full-blooded alignment. With To Be a Man, this acclaimed psychotherapist and relationship expert offers a groundbreaking and deeply insightful guide to masculine power and fulfillment. In this book, readers will explore: • How your past may be dominating your present • Shame in its healthy and unhealthy forms, and how to make wise use of it • How vulnerability can be a source of strength • Emotional literacy—an essential skill for relational well-being • Releasing sex from the obligation to make you feel better • How to disempower your inner critic • Bringing your shadow (whatever you’ve disowned in yourself) out of the dark • What women need from men • Understanding and outgrowing pornography • Discovering the heartland of true masculine power If you’ve read your share of popular advice on relationships and being a man—but realize on a gut level that it’s going to take some serious inner work—To Be a Man is a fantastic entry into the modern challenge of embracing a mindful, considerate, passionate, and fully embodied masculinity. Join Robert Augustus Masters to discover what’s needed to enter a manhood as strongly empowered as it is vulnerable, a manhood at home with intimate relationship and with life itself.

Read more less