Robert Augustus Masters

Psychotherapist and spiritual teacher Robert Augustus Masters offers this new and insightful guide to masculine power and fulfillment. "I've got it all-so why am I so dissatisfied with my life? Why am I never happy in my romantic relationships? How do I become more courageous and powerful, without becoming that jerk everyone hates?" Masters has helped thousands of men address these issues. And for nearly all of them, he's found that one solution is clear: we must face our early wounds and the shame that holds us back-and then bring our "head, heart, and guts into full-blooded alignment". To Be a Man" shows readers how, as they explore: emotional mastery, awakening courage and strength, sexuality and intimacy, outgrowing pornography and other addictions, the power of vulnerability, deepening relationships, and more.

A Guide to True Masculine Power

To Be a Man

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.

A Comprehensive Guide for Connecting with the Power of Your Emotions

Emotional Intimacy

"Our shadow," teaches Robert Augustus Masters, "is our internal storehouse for the parts of us that we’ve disowned or rejected, or are otherwise keeping in the dark." Everyone has a shadow, but all too many of us are unaware of it. It holds the feelings and beliefs that we are most ashamed of or cannot accept about ourselves. For some, it may contain unacknowledged anger or grief. For others, pain or fear. Our shadow contains our unfaced conditioning. And the more unaware we are of our shadow, the more it influences and controls us. Based upon Masters's four decades as a psychospiritual therapist and guide, Bringing Your Shadow Out of the Dark invites readers to understand and skillfully work with this rich yet neglected dimension of ourselves. With depth and clarity, he illuminates the process of meeting our shadow in beneficial ways, and how we can embody a more complete and life-giving experience of who we are. In this book you’ll discover: • The nature of our shadow and how to optimally work with it—exploring our conditioning and core shadow elements, including in the domains of shame, fear, aggression, resistance, addiction, death, and spirituality • How to work with the child within, self-sabotage, narcissism, sexuality, dreams, and other matters deeply influenced by our shadow • Why turning toward our pain is an essential part of shadow work—making wise use of our pain • Collective shadow domains we share with family, social groups, political party, or nation—bringing them and their associated traumas into the light When we uncover and work in-depth with our shadow, we free ourselves from its control and gain the opportunity to put its contents to work for us instead of allowing them to work against us. Bringing Your Shadow Out of the Dark shows us how to navigate the full terrain of our emotions, drives, needs, and depths of who we are. Foreword by Lissa Rankin, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over Medicine, The Fear Cure, and The Anatomy of a Calling.

Breaking Free from the Hidden Forces That Drive You

Bringing Your Shadow Out of the Dark

In a book that offers insight into how we use and abuse religion in unconscious ways, a psychotherapist provides an in-depth look at the unresolved or ignored psychological issues often masked as spirituality, including self-judgment, excessive niceness and emotional dissociation. Original.

When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters

Spiritual Bypassing

An Odyssey to the Heart of Hell and Beyond ; Meditations of Sanity, Suffering, Spirituality, and Liberation

Darkness Shining Wild

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.

A népszerű párkapcsolati tanácsadó, Robert Augustus Masters világszerte több ezer férfinak segített már fontos önismereti kérdéseket feldolgozni és szembenézni saját árnyaival, múltból hozott sérelmeivel. A Férfierő című könyve olyan kérdéseket feszeget, amikről általános pszichológiai aspektusból kevésbé szoktunk elgondolkodni – és most kifejezetten a férfiak szemszögéből nézhetünk rá a témára. A férfilét alapkérdései kerülnek terítékre. Milyen az igazi férfi? Milyen az igazi maszkulin erő? A szakértő minden olyan témát feldolgoz, ami a férfi társas működéséhez, önismeretéhez, önfejlesztéséhez szükséges. • Hogyan befolyásolhatja a múlt a jelenünket? • Hogyan használhatjuk jól a minden férfiban munkáló egészséges és egészségtelen szégyenérzetet? • Hogyan lehet a sebezhetőség az erő forrása? • Érzelmi műveltség – egy alapvető készség a kapcsolati jólléthez • A felszabadult szexualitás • Hogy hallgattasd el a belső kritikusodat? • Éned árnyékos oldalának felfedezése • Amire a nőknek szükségük van a férfiaktól • A pornográfia megértése • Az igazi férfias erő felfedezése A könyv őszintén és nyíltan beszél szexről, nemi erőszakról, miközben sorban kitér a legfontosabb párkapcsolati kihívásokra is. A gyakorlatok segítenek szembenézni személyiségünk árnyékos oldalaival, útmutatóul szolgálnak ahhoz, hogy kiteljesedett, elégedett férfiként élhessünk. Robert Augustus Masters, PhD kapcsolati szakértő, integrált pszichoterapeuta és pszichoszexuális tréner. Pszichológia doktori fokozattal rendelkezik, számos nagy sikerű könyvet írt, melyek közül elsőként a Férfierő címűt olvashatjuk magyarul.

Bátorság, hősiesség, büszkeség, leleplezett agresszió

Férfierő

Intimate relationship has long been viewed and lived as a lesser alternative to spiritual life. More recently, the need to integrate our spiritual and intimate lives, rather than maintaining separate spheres and relationships on autopilot, has become increasingly apparent. Given the high rates of infidelity and divorce, it would seem that the possibilities of freedom through intimacy have not been explored in much depth. Too often we pull away when relationships become difficult, missing out on the rewards of connecting more profoundly. The passage from immature to mature monogamy is not only a journey of ripening intimacy with a partner, but also a journey into and through zones of ourselves that may be very difficult to accept and integrate with the rest of our being. Transformation through Intimacy explores intimate relationships through a four-stage lens: me-centered, we-centered codependent, we-centered coindependent, and being-centered. Bringing his many years of experience as a psychotherapist and spiritual practitioner to the subject, Masters shows readers not only how to navigate the thickets of reactivity, conflict, shame, anger, fear, and doubt, but how to understand them in a new light so that a deeper level of relating to oneself and one's partner becomes possible, opening new levels of trust, commitment, and love.

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