Emotional Intimacy: A Comprehensive Guide for Connecting with the Power of Your Emotions - Softcover

Masters, Robert Augustus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604079398 ISBN 13: 9781604079395

Publisher: Sounds True Adult, 2013

Synopsis

" Emotions link our bodies, thoughts, and conditioning at multiple levels. And the capacity to be intimate with our emotions, teaches Robert Augustus Masters, is essential for creating fulfilling relationships, relationships in which awareness, love, passion, and integrity function as one. With Emotional Intimacy, this respected psychospiritual teacher and author invites us to explore: . How to deepen our emotional literacy . Cultivating intimacy with all of our emotions . The ways that we numb our unwanted feelings, and how to revive them and welcome them back . How to identify our emotions, fully experience them, and skillfully express them. . Resolving and healing from old emotional wounds . Gender differences in emotional literacy and expression . Steps for bringing greater intimacy and depth into our relationships . In-depth guidance for those facing depression, anxiety, and crippling shame . Why ""blowing off steam"" can often make us feel worse, and what constitutes healthy catharsis . Navigating activity and stimulus overload, a collective emotional pandemic of our times . 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 useful insights, Masters provides a lucid, exceptionally comprehensive guide for reclaiming our emotions, relating to them skillfully, and allowing them to resonate in ourselves and with others more deeply and richly, immeasurably deepening our lives."

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Review

"Understanding our emotions and working with them and through them has never been more important. Personally, relationally, globally, the maturing of emotion is the first step toward peace. In Emotional Intimacy, Robert Masters creates a thorough geography of the heart, offering detailed understandings and extensive ways to practice being human. A true resource for individuals and those in the helping professions." --Mark Nepo, author of Seven Thousand Ways To Listen and The Book of Awakening

"There is wisdom and power in this remarkable exploration of emotional intimacy. The author journeys into unexpected regions of the human heart and with rare discernment explores the dark and light of that which allows for a new order of coming together." --Jean Houston, PhD, author of The Search for the Beloved

"From the moment I opened Emotional Intimacy and treated myself to a long look at - better to say "drink of" -its contents, something in my heart and whole being relaxed and released. I knew I was in the presence of one of the most precise analyses and deeply comforting (which means, strength-giving) contemplations of human emotion ever written, any time, anywhere, by anyone. Over half a million books are now published every year. Very few deserve reading by many of us. Hardly any should be read, imbibed, deeply absorbed and used by just about every adult and most teenagers on the planet. This is one of them. I'm a fairly well respected teacher of such things myself, and I'm marveling at it. I intend to go to school in this masterwork by Robert Augustus Masters for a very long time to come. I can hardly praise it, and thank Robert, enough." --Saniel Bonder, co-founder, Waking Down, and author of Ultimaya 1.0: The Trouble with the Wishes of Leopold Stokes

"Emotional Intimacy is a godsend. Open it on any page and you will experience the truth within your emotions. I recommend this wonderful book to everyone!" --Christiane Northrup, MD, author of the New York Times bestsellers Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

"This is one of the best books on human emotion I've read. What I particularly like about it is its practicality. Dr. Masters has obviously done his fair share of work on his own relationships; his insights and suggestions show the signs of one who has been there in the heat of action." --Gay Hendricks, PhD, author of The Big Leap and co-author of Conscious Loving with Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks

"Emotional Intimacy sets out a perfectly clear and accurate map of the all-too-often confused dimension of our emotional territory, and the result is everything you could ever want from a book on this topic: it is concise, useful, beautifully succinct, exquisitely well-executed, and a deeply joyful book to read. I highly recommend this book for professional and laypeople alike--it has something deeply important to offer each--and you won't regret it!" --Ken Wilber, Integral philosopher and author of A Brief History of Everything

"This remarkably helpful, lucidly written book provides an exceptional road map on how to work creatively and constructively with all of our emotions. I was particularly impressed by Masters' emphasis on intimacy throughout the book, including the art of developing intimacy with each of our emotions. For those of us who wish to deepen our capacity for emotional intimacy with another human being, Masters' offering is a beautiful place to begin." --Katherine Woodward Thomas, author of Calling in "The One"

"In Emotional Intimacy, Robert Masters offers a primer on emotions--from the most primary to the most subtle. Whether you are currently in a relationship or wish to be in one, this is a very worthwhile book to pick up and select a chapter from which to taste, digest, transform, and heal. As a couples' therapist, I will definitely recommend this book to my clients." --Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, author of Wired for Love

About the Author

Robert Augustus Masters
Robert Augustus Masters, PhD, is an integral psychotherapist, relationship expert, and spiritual teacher whose work blends the psychological and physical with the spiritual, emphasizing embodiment, emotional literacy, and the development of relational maturity. He is the author of fourteen books, including Transformation through Intimacy and Spiritual Bypassing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sounds True Adult
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1604079398
• ISBN 13: 9781604079395
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312