Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks are two of today''s foremost relationship experts. Their bestselling book Conscious Loving has already become essential reading for tens of thousands of couples. Now, in The Conscious Heart, they identify the seven commitments that can transform from the inside out. These seven simple--but powerful--choices enable couples to: Use conflict to create greater understanding Overcome the fears and defenses that block intimacy Resolve struggles for control Increase generosity and appreciation Deepen passion, commitment, and aliveness Release the creativity of each partnerFilled with numerous true-life stories--including how the authors survived and grew from their own midlife marital crisis--The Conscious Heart is an inspiring and instructive affirmation of the ultimate power of love.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Here is a powerful new program that can clear  away the unconscious agreements patterns that  undermine even your best intentions. Through their own  marriage and through twenty years'' experience  counseling more than one thousand couples, therapists  Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks have developed precise  strategies to help you create a vital partnership  and enhance the energy, creativity, and happiness of  each individual. You will learn how to: Let go  of power struggles and need for control; Balance  needs for closeness and separateness; Increase  intimacy by telling the "microscopic truth";  Communicate in a positive way that stops  arguments; Make agreements you can keep; Allow more  pleasure into your life. Addressed to individuals as  well as to couples, Conscious Loving  will heal old hurts and deepen your capacity for  enjoyment, security, and enduing love.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks are two of today's foremost relationship experts. Their bestselling book Conscious Loving has already become essential reading for tens of thousands of couples. Now, in The Conscious Heart, they identify the seven commitments that can transform from the inside out.

This book shows you a new way to experience more love in your life. If you use the three simple tools described in the book, your relationships will undergo a spiritual transformation. Specifically, you will feel a deeper sense of your own spiritual center, while at the same time seeing the spiritual essence of your partner more clearly. What allows this transformation to take place? It’s the power of Presencing, a new set of relationship-enhancing techniques that enable you to slip free of the shackles of the past into a new space of creative freedom.Based on work with more than 3,500 couples and 20,000 single and divorced people, Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks discovered that relationships flourish when each person develops a body-sense of spirit. This means that each person must get deeper than the level of spiritual concepts to feel a living sense of spirit inside. Using the three specific tools described in the book: Presencing Wonder, Presencing Spirit, and Spirit-Centered Listening, couples feel more love and harmony flowing into their lives, and single people find it much easier to attract genuine love to them.

Are you passionately dedicated to experiencing your full capacity for love? If so, you are in for a thrilling ride on the greatest journey imaginable.If that sounds like a tempting invitation, keep reading, and prepare to take in some life-altering truths: That as you get older, your love life can get better. That instead of fading, your relationships can flourish. That you can have more exquisite love and more passionate sex in the second half of life than you ever had before. Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks, the pioneering authors of the original best-selling book Conscious Loving, show you how in this guide to creating vibrant and joyful connections from your mid-40s onward.Midlife is a time when we all face a choice: to settle into fixed routines and beliefs or to expand toward new horizons. With candor, compassion, and plenty of humor, drawing on experiments in the "living laboratory" of their own marriage as well as stories from their clients and colleagues, Katie and Gay offer insights and practices to help you:   • Expand and enrich love by making your own creative essence your top priority   • Take blame and criticism out of your communication with those you love   • Use "presencing" to tap into the flow of intimacy in every moment   • Attract new love into your life   • Enjoy the best sex everWhether you’re partnered or single, Conscious Loving Ever After can light your way through the layers of unconscious relating that so many of us get caught in. From a set of powerful Fear Melters, a Ten-Minute Stuff Talk, and a Ten-Minute Heart Talk to a range of whole-body learning processes designed to translate ideas into action, here are the tools you need to transform your romantic life so you can thrive in your full capacity for love.

Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks are two of today''s foremost relationship experts. Their bestselling book Conscious Loving has already become essential reading for tens of thousands of couples. Now, in The Conscious Heart, they identify the seven commitments that can transform from the inside out. These seven simple--but powerful--choices enable couples to: Use conflict to create greater understanding Overcome the fears and defenses that block intimacy Resolve struggles for control Increase generosity and appreciation Deepen passion, commitment, and aliveness Release the creativity of each partnerFilled with numerous true-life stories--including how the authors survived and grew from their own midlife marital crisis--The Conscious Heart is an inspiring and instructive affirmation of the ultimate power of love.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Here is a powerful new program that can clear  away the unconscious agreements patterns that  undermine even your best intentions. Through their own  marriage and through twenty years'' experience  counseling more than one thousand couples, therapists  Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks have developed precise  strategies to help you create a vital partnership  and enhance the energy, creativity, and happiness of  each individual. You will learn how to: Let go  of power struggles and need for control; Balance  needs for closeness and separateness; Increase  intimacy by telling the "microscopic truth";  Communicate in a positive way that stops  arguments; Make agreements you can keep; Allow more  pleasure into your life. Addressed to individuals as  well as to couples, Conscious Loving  will heal old hurts and deepen your capacity for  enjoyment, security, and enduing love.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks are two of today's foremost relationship experts. Their bestselling book Conscious Loving has already become essential reading for tens of thousands of couples. Now, in The Conscious Heart, they identify the seven commitments that can transform from the inside out.

This book shows you a new way to experience more love in your life. If you use the three simple tools described in the book, your relationships will undergo a spiritual transformation. Specifically, you will feel a deeper sense of your own spiritual center, while at the same time seeing the spiritual essence of your partner more clearly. What allows this transformation to take place? It’s the power of Presencing, a new set of relationship-enhancing techniques that enable you to slip free of the shackles of the past into a new space of creative freedom.Based on work with more than 3,500 couples and 20,000 single and divorced people, Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks discovered that relationships flourish when each person develops a body-sense of spirit. This means that each person must get deeper than the level of spiritual concepts to feel a living sense of spirit inside. Using the three specific tools described in the book: Presencing Wonder, Presencing Spirit, and Spirit-Centered Listening, couples feel more love and harmony flowing into their lives, and single people find it much easier to attract genuine love to them.

Are you passionately dedicated to experiencing your full capacity for love? If so, you are in for a thrilling ride on the greatest journey imaginable.If that sounds like a tempting invitation, keep reading, and prepare to take in some life-altering truths: That as you get older, your love life can get better. That instead of fading, your relationships can flourish. That you can have more exquisite love and more passionate sex in the second half of life than you ever had before. Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks, the pioneering authors of the original best-selling book Conscious Loving, show you how in this guide to creating vibrant and joyful connections from your mid-40s onward.Midlife is a time when we all face a choice: to settle into fixed routines and beliefs or to expand toward new horizons. With candor, compassion, and plenty of humor, drawing on experiments in the "living laboratory" of their own marriage as well as stories from their clients and colleagues, Katie and Gay offer insights and practices to help you:   • Expand and enrich love by making your own creative essence your top priority   • Take blame and criticism out of your communication with those you love   • Use "presencing" to tap into the flow of intimacy in every moment   • Attract new love into your life   • Enjoy the best sex everWhether you’re partnered or single, Conscious Loving Ever After can light your way through the layers of unconscious relating that so many of us get caught in. From a set of powerful Fear Melters, a Ten-Minute Stuff Talk, and a Ten-Minute Heart Talk to a range of whole-body learning processes designed to translate ideas into action, here are the tools you need to transform your romantic life so you can thrive in your full capacity for love.