IAM Course 202: Map of the Emotions

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Course 202

Emotions and the Energy of the Heart
Your emotions are the result of the flow of energy through your heart, the same energy that flows through all hearts and all life. The particular emotions you feel most often are the symptoms of constrictions of this energy stream within yourself. These constrictions are partly due to your specialization as an individual, and partly due to your life experience. The objective is to perfect each type of emotion and then move on to the next until all the emotions are flowing like a river through all the conditions of your life.

How We Work With Emotions
All emotions are valuable. Living from the Heart means having the great emotions as our constant companions:

Sorrow for suffering
Joy beyond reason
Longing for happiness
Exuberance for life
Peace that radiates from us

What about negative emotions? They are powerful forces within us, driving us to discard and destroy what we want most. When you see all emotions as energy-in-motion, you try not to waste the energy of any emotion. Every emotion has its cause, its message and its purpose. In each phase of your development, all the emotions of that phase will be present. By using the Map, you'll find you can readily move from a destructive emotion to its corresponding constructive form. Without the Map, we try to make too large a step from one emotion to another -- that's why we get stuck in an emotion that hurts us.

Benefits You Can Bring Into Your Life
This workshop will give you an in-depth understanding and experience of the phases of emotion. From the experience, you will learn:

To draw upon the energy of the heart
To identify and experience your full range of emotions
To gracefully handle life’s situations
To use your everyday emotional challenges to foster personal growth
To revere the heart of each person
What is your current focus in the development of your heart, and what is your next step.

The Flow of the Emotions
To make the emotions flow, you need to experience the source and destination of the river of emotion, and the purpose for its movement. The Map of Emotions offers that experience. In this course, we access each of the emotional phases, which are always present in the depth of the heart. The four emotional phases are:

1. Loss »» Gratefulness »» Bliss
2. Acceptance »» Forgiveness »» Contentment
3. Confidence »» Empowerment »» Joy
4. Creativity »» Magnanimity »» Fulfillment

As most people have little conscious contact with their emotions, and then only a narrow range of over-used emotions, the experiences of this course are vital to widen and deepen the heart's experience. This will give you access to all the emotions of your heart, which you can draw upon according to the situation. Ultimately, all emotions resolve into peace, like colored lights merging into white.

What You'll Learn
The areas that we'll explore together include:

Identifying the four fundamental phases of emotion
Moving from one phase to another
Recognizing your path from the three paths in life
Stages 1-3 of Heart Rhythm Meditation
Invocation of the emotions by the sounds of the heart
Recorded and sung music
Drawing upon personal experiences

Expect to feel your heart stir and move within you. The heart loves to be discovered again and again. You will receive materials describing the method so that you can recreate your experience at the seminar of the cosmic emotions within yourself.

We Honor All Emotions
At IAM, we honor all the emotions of the heart, which we channel into creative and useful expression. When you're not aware of your inner emotional state, self-destructive behavior is inevitable, but when you give attention to your heart, your emotions construct harmonious actions. Living from the heart becomes natural when your heart is your focus.

Of course, you would like your behavior to express your love, and you would like to live in the love of others. But you can't live from your heart by willpower or good intentions.

The life you want is possible when you understand and harness your emotions, because the power of life itself is in them.

One's emotional development is primarily determined by one's path in life. We recognize three primary paths, like the primary colors:
The Master. The path of the master is struggle, within and without. The Master is responsible for improving conditions, which she does by achieving goals. She has a much greater effect on the world than the world has upon her. The Master is concerned with self-discipline and will-power.
The Saint. The path of the Saint is love, harmony and beauty, yet not everyone can take his path. The Saint's work is to develop appreciation of the way things are and to comfort individuals and the world. The Saint is concerned with purity, patience, and happiness.
The Prophet. The bearer of a message, the prophet is an educator and communicator. The work of the Prophet is service, the concern is for the state of humankind.

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