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Mindful Loving
10 Practices for Creating Deeper Connections
Limited 10 students
The New England Institute of Buddhist Studies’
3 month course, called Mindful Loving: 10 Practices for Creating Deeper Connections, which is offered in April 2010.
This program will offer a great book to read, discuss, and opportunities to apply practical and life changing ideas to your
everyday life. If you are seeking spiritual transformation or want to learn how to truly love yourself and others in your
life, you are invited to join us. This course is perfect for the beginner to advanced student.
“In
this groundbreaking book, Dr. Henry Grayson shares his breakthrough techniques for creating deeper and more lasting connections
with our loved ones. Henry Grayson, a psychologist, relationship counselor, psychoanalyst, and former minister who has been
working with couples and individuals to improve their relationships for over thirty years, has found that most people are
actually more unhappy after marriage counseling or couples therapy. In Mindful Loving he sets aside the traditional methods
of therapy to show you how to look at your relationships from a completely different perspective. By getting to the root of
our relationship problems, which stem from our thoughts and beliefs and mistaken ideas about our own identities, Grayson creates
a whole new framework - one where psychology, spirituality, and science meet in which to view intimacy.”
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Excerpt from the book Mindful
Loving
Book Selection
Mindful Loving: 10 Practices for Creating Deeper Connections
by Henry Grayson PHD
The Course
No Prerequisites
Education: Participants
should read the book and do the assignments which are geared to enhance understanding and practice. Do not worry, like all
NEIBS courses, there are no grades. The assignments are easy to manage and comprehend are will be experiential rather than
written exercises. Homework is sent via email and the first assignment is due on the first class.
Practice: Buddhism
should not be approached just on an intellectual basis but must be applied in daily life, which, through committed and diligent
practice, will transform the mind and heart. To get most out of the course, participants should try to practice deep hearing
(reflection) while reading the book, practice voice, sitting or walking meditation, and attend sangha gatherings at the Buddhist
Faith Fellowship to hear the Buddhist teachings on a regular basis. Students should strive for 75% attendance.
Commitment: All participants
must read the book. It will be divided into three sections, a third will be discussed in each class. All participants are
allowed just one absence from a class but assignment must be delivered via e-mail before the missed class.
Discipline: All assignments
should be completed and handed in at the time of the class.
Donation: $120 for non-members and $96 for members, and the book in included as a gift (a $15 value).
All donations less the $15 gift book are tax deductible.
Time and place: The course will
meet once a month, (Dates: 4/18, 5/16, 6/07) on
a Sunday afternoon, after regular sangha gathering from 12:30 pm to approx 2:00 pm. Classes will be 2 hours each.
What Will Be Studied?
Some of the topics to be learned include the following:
- Rethinking the Purpose of Marriage
- The New Physics of Love: A Spiritual Approach
to Relationships
- The Power of Thought to Heal Relationships
- Breaking into the Vicious Cycle
- Choosing Love, Not Fear
- Erasing Traumas and Changing Negative Core
Beliefs
- Identifying Your Barriers to Love
- Unblocking the Flow of Love
- Learning to Trust in the True Self
- A Deeper Knowledge of the Spirit Through
Quieting the Mind
“Mindful
Loving teaches how to respond to life's challenges by thinking in a different way.”
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