Tantric Dating: Bringing Love and Awareness to the Dating Process
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Tired of the conventional dating scene and it's cold, rejecting non-loving atmosphere? Tantric Dating easily teaches you a new mindset and shares exercises to help you bring love and awareness to the dating process.<
Catherine I Auman LMFT
Catherine Auman LMFT is a licensed therapist with advanced training in both traditional and spiritual psychology with thirty years of successful professional experience helping thousands of clients. She has headed nationally-based psychiatric hospital programs as well as worked through alternative methodologies based on ancient traditions and wisdom teachings.
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Tantric Dating - Catherine I Auman LMFT
CONTENTS
Introduction
TANTRIC DATING MINDSET
What Do We Mean by Tantra?
Tantric Dating Vs. Conventional Dating
Society is Against Love
The Appearance Issue
The Whole Issue of Chemistry
and "Trusting
Your Gut"
Is It Really Rejection?
What About Toxic People?
We’re All Spiritual Brothers and Sisters Helping
Each Other Grow
Blaming Other People for Why We’re Not Loving
It’s Up to Me Whether I Love You or Not;
It’s Not Up to You
The Invention of Romantic Love
The Pain of Romantic Love is Good for You
(To a Point)
I’m Going to Live in Love
How Do I Open More to Love?
Advocating for Love
TANTRIC DATING EXERCISES
EXERCISE #1: The Eyes—Your False Friends
EXERCISE #2: The Egg Meditation
EXERCISE #3: Tantric Dating Metta
EXERCISE #4: Tantric Dating Tonglen
EXERCISE #5: Practicing Tantric Dating
Principles
EXERCISE #6: The Perfect Beloved in This
Moment
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Connect with Catherine Auman
The Tantric Mastery Series
Works by Catherine Auman
INTRODUCTION
It was a major birthday—one of those years when you take stock of if you’re where you want to be. In most areas of life, I had to admit I was doing great: successful in my chosen career, great health, lovely friends, a cute apartment, financially stable—most of the things that everyone wants—except for the only thing that had ever really mattered—being in a soulmate relationship with my Perfect Beloved.
Not that I hadn’t tried. Ever since I first discovered boys (outside my brother) in kindergarten, I’d been trying. After countless blind dates, bad dates and bad boys, relationship advice books and columns, online and in-person dating, an early foray (a bit unwillingly) into free love
culture, endless hours of therapy, many, many relationships and two failed marriages, I had to admit: I was a Dating Disaster.
I recounted all this to a long-time friend in the Bay Area who asked how she could support me. Since she was actively involved in online dating, I suggested we cheerlead each other a couple times a week. We began chatting frequently late at night, reviewing dates and deciphering texts. Then she promptly met someone and with that, I was alone again.
I made the decision to go for it. Really go for it this time, no matter what. I was going to get to the bottom of this and become a Master of Dating and Relationships. I decided to hack dating once and for all, whatever it took. And for me, it took a lot.
Sitting on my couch on Saturday nights, watching Netflix while sipping a glass of wine wasn’t working. I needed to get into action. I joined five online dating sites and over twenty Meetups (which is great because you are always getting invitations in your inbox). I downloaded an app which had a calendar of all the art openings in town and ventured out to art gallery openings (free wine and intriguing hipsters). I went back to therapy to complete some still-unfinished business from childhood (I had been in therapy a lot, but still … sometimes when you come from a difficult childhood it takes a while), and hired a coach. An unusual dating coach—I hired a Pickup Artist.