What Is Love?

SUMMARY

This book examines all the main areas where people get stuck in relationships – possessiveness, unrealistic expectations, judgements, projecting into the future, power/control and others – and explains how to move past these issues, and cultivate relationships based on a love that is real.

There are many other books that attempt to do the same thing. The unique feature of this book is that it shows how these stuck patterns relate to the body’s energy system. So the reader is able to understand what is going on not just as a mental concept, but also as a felt experience in the body.

The model used for this new understanding is the Tantric Yoga Chakra system. This system shows how each of the seven chakras (energy centers) governs a particular set of responses in us. The first relates to survival (money, need for security, fear of death); the second to sexuality (desire, passion, pleasure); the third to power (control, assertiveness, expressing wants); the fourth to the heart (love, intimacy, pain); and so on.

By understanding ourselves in terms of the chakras, we have a whole new set of tools for healing and correcting imbalances at each of these four levels.

 In addition to this, the chakra system shows us how to move energy from the lower to the higher centers. When we understand how to do this, we have a unique and powerful way of transforming our relationships from the self-centered energies of the first three chakras (I need, I desire, I want) to the heart-centered energy of the fourth (I share, I care, I love).

We may enter our relationships with the best of intentions, yet find ourselves caught up in arguments, disappointments, demands, possessiveness, boredom and other pitfalls. When we look at what causes this, in energy terms, we see that there are stuck energy patterns in the first three chakras which prevent our energy from rising up to, and awakening the heart.

Most people find that they cannot be loving just by wishing to be. The energetic fuel that the heart needs to open and expand is blocked in the body.

What is Love? gives detailed guidelines for unblocking each of the first three chakras. In addition, the true nature of the heart chakra is explained, and the reader is shown how to develop his/her full potential for sharing love with another person.

This book presents an astonishing new approach to relationships. It shows how to transform our unconscious stuck patterns into real open-heartedness. Through simple, practical steps you discover how to create a relationship that is nurturing and fulfilling to the heart and soul.