Being love as basic state The ocean at rest, immeasurably deep and vast, is a good metaphor for the “state” of being love. The word “state” I put in quotation marks because in this context this word is misleading. The basic homeostatic state of being love is not static »»
Except for the earliest childhood, man never lives in the state of being love for a longer period of time. In the course of his development, the love experience changes from being love and the primary excited love to purposeful love and the secondary excited love. I distinguish three phases. The »»
The healing effect of a loving physical contact is a basic human experience in all cultures. It is an experience that is – or at least should be – very familiar to us. And yet I had to make the astonishing observation – not only with myself but also in everyday therapeutic life – how strongly we »»
Essential qualities of love of being are: Openness, Uncriticism, Naive Wonder, Timelessness, Spacelessness and Permeability, Emptiness, Experience of Freedom and Independence, Eutonic Body State, Tenderness, Aperspectival Experiential World, Oceanic Feeling, Averbal Figurative Process, Contentment »»
My emotional model is composed of five building blocks. Based on this, I will show step by step the transition from the physiological reflex reaction to psychological reactions by means of schemata. In addition, it is important to consider the four levels on which feelings can take place.
