Lektion 1
The Conflict Within
The source of your misery is not the other person. In this lesson, learn what is the source of the destructive frustration and distress that often accompanies and outlasts conflict. Also in this lesson, important guidelines about the nature of the practice I'm teaching are provided.
Lektion 2
The Impossible Goal
During a heated conflict, we expend enormous energy trying to accomplish what is impossible. We try to convince, to fix, to be heard, or to make the difficult feelings simply go away. These goals are a non-starter and only lead to more intense frustration and misery. In this lesson, you will learn to recognize these self-defeating patterns and see how they set you up to fail.
Lektion 3
Self-Blame And Self-Shame
We're devastated by conflict, not because of the way the other person is treating us. Though their behaviour may be completely unacceptable, it's the way we treat ourselves during conflict that is the underlying source of our misery and the way conflict wreaks havoc on our entire lives. We feel disconnected from the person we believe we are, and that's what hurts the most. Underneath our fury at the other person is a hidden anger at ourselves.
Lektion 4
Conflict Can Be The Deepest Practice Of Your Most Beloved Values
In this lesson learn how practicing mindfulness during conflict, for even one moment, can transform your experience of conflict, bring healing to your relationship and deeply strengthen your ability to bring your most beloved practices to every other area of your life. Because if you can do it there, just a little, you can do it anywhere.
Lektion 5
The Most Important Compassion To Practice During Conflict
More important than noticing the humanity of the other during conflict is to prioritize self-compassion. Since self-blame and self-shame are at the root of the destructive misery of conflict, self-compassion is the most important practice.