The Power of Love by Lion Goodman and Carista Luminare

In this opening module, you’ll explore what love has to do with power, and how can you use the power of love to change your world. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, healer, engineer or leader, how you relate to yourself and others impacts both the quality of your experience and the results you produce in your life. In this session, you’ll learn:

• Why are you so confused about love?
• What is healthy love?
• The LoveStyles Model: Secure vs. Insecure Attachment
• The Neuroscience of Love: How the brain triggers your heart
• The difference between Human and Divine love

In this module, you’ll learn to cultivate the power of love through expressing and embodying love in three areas. You’ll explore:

• How you relate to your Self and experience self-love
• Ways to empower your True Self worth and values and end negation and self-disrespect
• How you relate to others, in all your relationships, including personal, social, and professional arenas
• How you use (and can expand) your sense of love as “acts of service” to help others less fortunate, or to improve the world

Beliefs can be empowering and uplifting, or limiting and detrimental. You learned “what love is” from your parents – so it’s no wonder that you’re confused! Most of us repeat patterns we learned from observing and mimicking our parents. We then added beliefs about love that we got from other family members, friends and lovers, our religious training, and the media. These beliefs operate unconsciously – until you change them consciously. In this session, you will:

• Examine and release childhood patterns that enabled you to survive and thrive, but are now interfering with your life
• Move beyond old, limiting beliefs that prevent you from engaging and enjoying intimate relationships
• Learn to free yourself from old programs that stop you from giving freely and openly in support and service to others

Love is knowing how to bond positively with another (care), and deal with the hurtful reactions we can cause each other (repair). It’s a deliberate practice of caring about the other person’s reality, and the impact you’re having on them. In our culture, many people missed out on this basic understanding of how to mindfully create loving and empowering connections. If you communicate your feelings and needs with heartfelt kindness, you generate a different experience than if you share your truth with judgment. In this session, you will learn:

• How to overcome the challenges of narcissism (in yourself and others)
• The difference between feeling fully and reacting from your feelings
• How to create secure attachment bonds with others (and within yourself), including with your children (if you have them)
• The keys to releasing the past through forgiveness and amends
• How to bring romance into full blossom by understanding ideal love vs. real love

Love cannot be mentioned without full consideration of the body’s response to closeness. Seeking warmth, comfort, sensuality, and sex is as universal as seeking food and water. Humans have an extraordinary variety in appetite and preferences in this arena. One thing is clear: we are social creatures, and we need touch to thrive. Your individual self-care and daily life balance practices impact the quality of your relationships. In this class, you’ll explore:

• The role of touch (and oxytocin) in your well-being.
• The 4 neurotransmitter systems that optimize your happiness
• How to balance the forces of masculine and feminine within yourself and within your partnership
• The dangerous trap of sex, love, and porn addiction – and how to overcome them
• How to “care & repair” in your relationship whenever things go badly

Love is a Virtue, yet it is made up of many different types of loving acts, each of which is its own virtue. Virtues must be practiced in order to be embodied. In this module, you’ll learn:

• Identifying your personal love and compassion virtues
• The three virtuous powers: integrating love with wisdom and will
• How to bring the virtues into your life: a daily practice to optimize your relationships
• The role of the soul as a the source of divine love and wisdom
• Engage, express, and embody! 3 steps to master and manifest love

The Power of Love produces extraordinary benefits when it’s consciously integrated into your daily life. It produces a healing force that can be directed into your own body-mind and also outward to others. It can be used to raise vibrant children, and build healthy communities. It can be used to create peace within, and peace between people. In this final session, you’ll learn:

• The difference between selfishness, selflessness and self-care
• How individualism separated us and broke our social contract – and how to begin its repair
• The power dynamics that come from competition, and how collaboration can be used to get things done in a loving way
• Ways you can participate in social action as intentional acts of love for future generations
• Keys to mastering and embodying the “Wisdom and Will to Love”