Lesson 1
Love - What Is That, Actually?
The word "love" is a term we are all familiar with. However, like "God" or "freedom", it can have many meanings, creates certain images in each of us that are shaped by personal experience, and in most cases remains rather abstract. On this course day, you will learn what forms love can take and what benefits a heart-based practice can bring us.
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Lesson 2
About The Heart Chakra
In both the West and the East, we often locate our ability to love in the heart. On this course day, we will talk about the nature of the chakras and how they shape our experiences in life. Learn how chakra work can help us to become more present with ourselves and our world - and how this helps us to make these encounters ever more loving.
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Lesson 3
Following Your Joy
In many cultures, love has often been archetypally associated with sacrifice, bondage, and suffering. In this lesson, find out what often prevents us from connecting love with joy and what you can do to dissolve these blockages.
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Lesson 4
Self-Love And The Inner Critic
Do we really accept ourselves? This question is crucial to whether we can love ourselves. Important stumbling blocks on the path to unconditional self-love are our inner critic and deep-seated family or societal beliefs. On this course day, we will look at how we can use the technique of "cognitive reframing" to energetically discharge such inner stumbling blocks and transform them into supportive structures.
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Lesson 5
Acknowledging The Good Within
From our earliest childhood, most of us have learned to want, or even need, to improve ourselves. In this lesson of the course, we look at how we connect with the fundamental good in us - where we are already perfect without having to learn or improve.
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Lesson 6
Everything Is Relationship
The ancient tantric philosophers tell us that everything is connected to everything else. Even our body, our earthly shell, can only live because each of our cells is constantly interacting with a multitude of others, forming organs and controlling life processes. Above all, we are all part of large organisms - family, friends, society and Gaia, the world, as a whole. On this course day, you will learn how to get more and more into a deep relationship with the world around you.
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Lesson 7
Attachment Styles
Whether with ourselves, other people, things or life itself: love always unfolds in relationship. Our ability to feel love is directly linked to our ability to relate. On this course day, we will explore the four human attachment styles from psychology and you will learn how they influence your personal ability to love.
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Lesson 8
The World As A Mirror
Not only every living being, but also all other things and situations that we encounter every day hold a mirror up to us. If this reflection is less pleasant, we often tend to project guilt or negativity outwards onto the external circumstance or influence that triggers these feelings in us. On this course day, you will learn how to see yourself more clearly and release old blockages that may still be preventing you from living a life of maximum joy.
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Lesson 9
The "Right" Point Of View
In this session, we will talk about Aloha, love in the Hawaiian tradition, non-judgment, and how we can feel the principle of love and inner peace even better in our everyday lives. You will also find out more about the value of simplicity as a quality of the heart.
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Lesson 10
Radiating Love
Opening the heart is not just about cultivating emotional love, but about establishing a lasting feeling of sensual connection to all of existence - the rapture of the mystics on communing with the world as beloved, as we find it so beautifully described in the verses of the Sufi mystic Rumi or the Kashmiri master Lalla. On this course day, you will receive some final impulses on how you can bring this rapture and amazement at the wonders of this world more and more into your life.
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