Deepening Our Relationships, A Chassidic Overview

This maamer gives a recipe for achieving more emotional stability and consistency in our relationships with others and with The Other – God. The method is a mindful one; emphasis on the word mind. 

Emotions are powerful – yet liquid and moody. Our mind grabs us less, with less intensity of presence, but offers the value of stability and consistency. By relating to an other from the mind, from an awareness of the importance of the other, the heart is stabilized and tamed; offering us more control and, ultimately, more heartfulness in a relationship. 

This is not about sacrificing heart for mind, emotions for commitment. Rather, it’s about realizing that emotions are at their strongest when they are guided by commitment.

Part 1 - Understanding the emotional playing field. 

Part 2 - Understanding the tools we have to guide emotions and nurture them.

Part 3 - Understanding what a synchronized mind-heart relationship might look like and how we can move towards that.