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Pema Chödrön
Ani Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. She attended Miss Porter's School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and...
The Freedom to Love
An Online Training Course to Liberate Your Genuine Heart
Pema Chödrön
from Sounds True
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Do you want to love and connect with others more deeply, but need a little help?
With The Freedom to Love, Pema Chödrön invites you to start wherever you are—with any challenges, frustrations, or fears you may be facing—and use them as the launching pad to awaken the natural and boundless capacity of your heart.
Struggling with Matters of the Heart? This Is the Place to Bring Them
Through six sessions of intensive learning and practice, this beloved and gifted teacher will guide you through traditional Buddhism’s traditional awakened heart training … with a difference.
Pema might have named this course “Working with the Hard Stuff”—because here she’ll be showing us how to use the principles of The Four Immeasurables in our most challenging situations, relationships, and emotional states.
A Multifaceted Course to Awaken Your Boundless Heart
The Freedom to Love will engage you with written teachings, video and audio sessions, weekly self-reflection practices, deep meditation, plus two revealing sessions recorded with Pema Chödrön answering questions from a live audience.
If you’ve ever had the opportunity of attending a dharma talk with her, then you know that Pema’s Q&A discussions often reveal her most unexpected, entertaining, and memorable insights.
Here you are invited to come as you are—calm, confused, or just in need of a heartfulness tune-up—to begin unfolding your natural and joyful qualities of compassion, self-acceptance, connection, and unconditional love.
What you'll receive:
- 2 RECORDED Q&A VIDEO GATHERINGS with Pema Chödrön, where she answers questions and provides support (2 hours)
- OVER 6 HOURS OF IN-DEPTH VIDEO AND AUDIO SESSIONS of learning and guided meditations
- ONLINE WORKBOOK to guide your practice and record observations
Session 1
Staying Open to the Movie of Your Life
- Introduction to The Four Immeasurables—lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity
- Tapping into our inherent nature, the ultimate equanimity, staying open to the movie of your life
- Expanding your capacity to love
- Starting with what you have
- What blocks you is actually a path
- Recommended reading
Session 2
Experiencing Your Infinite Nature in the World
- Opening to receive love
- Trusting in our innate capacities and potentials
- Unconditional love
- Working with our benefactors
- The urgency of spiritual training
- Becoming good citizens of Earth
- Your basic goodness
Session 3
The Roots of Suffering and Happiness
- Wishing happiness for ourselves
- Ceasing to struggle against ourselves
- Working with addictions
- Transforming your relationship with yourself
- The power of open awareness
- Self compassion
- Our fundamental well-being
Session 4
The Practice of Lovingkindness
- Receiving a benefactor’s love
- Practicing lovingkindness with a partner
- Why we’re here
- Our potential for awakening
- Allowing our pain to be present
- Leaning in to the sharp points
- The three kinds of suffering
Session 5
Changing Your Heart Toward Pain
- Unacknowledged fears
- Remaining present with difficult feelings
- Compassion as a cradle for pain
- Contacting your worries
- Receiving compassion
- Beyond us and them
- Working with numbness
Session 6
Cultivating Joy and Gratitude
- Rejoicement therapy
- So much to appreciate
- How joy calls on inner strength
- What do you appreciate?
- Rejoicing in the good fortune of others
- Working with envy or jealousy
- Feelings of deficiency
- Staying present and open
Product details
Self-Guided Video Course: |
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| Contents | Video downloads, Audio downloads, Set of written course materials |
| Date Published | January 19, 2012 |
| Product Codes | 2463n, c2463n, wc02463n |
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