Robert Augustus Masters, author of Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters (2010), an instant classic, Transformation through Intimacy, Revised Edition: The Journey toward Awakened Monogamy (2012), and many other excellent books, has published his newest book, Emotional Intimacy: A Comprehensive Guide for Connecting with the Power of Your Emotions (2013), with Sounds True, where he also released the excellent Knowing Your Shadow: Becoming Intimate with All That You Are (2013).
Here is the description of the book from Masters' website:
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
In the two-part podcast below, Sounds True founder and CEO Tami Simon speaks with Masters about his new book, as well as other topics, including shadow work.
Robert Augustus Masters: Emotional Intimacy, Part 1
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Robert Augustus Masters 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. Here, Robert and Tami discuss emotional literacy and how it is lacking in our culture today. They consider differences in cultural conditioning between men and women when it comes to expressing emotions and the need to develop a toolkit to identify and work skillfully with anger. (70 minutes)
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Robert Augustus Masters: Emotional Intimacy, Part 2
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Robert Augustus Masters, an Integral psychotherapist, relationship expert, and spiritual teacher whose work emphasizes embodiment, emotional literacy, and the development of relational maturity. He is the author of 13 books including the new Sounds True book Emotional Intimacy, as well as the audio learning course Knowing Your Shadow. In the second part of their discussion, Tami speaks with Robert about the importance of mutual transparency in relationships, how we can engage in “connected catharsis,” the telltale signs that reveal when we are using spiritual bypassing to avoid emotional experience, and how we can start to identify and work with our own shadow material. (57 minutes)
More from Robert Augustus Masters:
Emotional Intimacy: A Comprehensive Guide for Connecting with the Power of Your Emotions, $12.70
Knowing Your Shadow: Becoming Intimate with All That You Are, $46.87
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