October 15, 2007

Taking Action – Body Freedom (Part 7 of 7)

"Taking Action – Body Freedom"

(Part 7 of 7)


The best way to learn—and unlearn—is to take action. Remember that your Body Freedom is your responsibility. It is neither mandatory nor automatic. You can claim your Body Freedom with the following actions:


1.Pay attention to your body. Listen to what it tells you about how it feels and what it wants and needs to function at its best, such as good food, enough rest, adequate exercise, and sensory delight.

2.Identify the body-negative messages you give yourself, that others give you, and that you give to others. Replace them with body-positive communication.

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October 13, 2007

Claiming Your Body Freedom – Body Freedom (Part 6 of 7)

"Claiming Your Body Freedom – Body Freedom"
(Part 6 of 7)
 
Divesting yourself of your body’s armor, so that you can be fully at ease in your body and share it completely with your beloved, requires learning a few new things and unlearning some old ones. In addition to the common misperceptions already mentioned (people naturally know how to make love, and touch is optional), you’ll come up against others. You’ll need to replace limiting, sabotaging notions with body-affirming and relationship-building ideas. This transformation includes:

Letting go of  “Pleasure, touching, and sex are dangerous, bad, and sinful” and affirming that “Pleasure, touching, and sex are biological, emotional, and spiritual needs—sensual nutrition.”

Shifting  “My lover is responsible for my pleasure” to “I am responsible for my pleasure.” No matter how skilled, adoring, or attentive your partner may be, unless you allow yourself to open to pleasure, you won’t experience it. 
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October 3, 2007

The First Freedom: Body (Part 1 of 7)

"The First Freedom: Body "
(Part 1 of 7) 

Body Marvels

Your body is an extraordinary organism, an electrical, chemical, and mechanical marvel. Its trillions of individual cells array themselves in complex combinations to produce the physical wonder that is at once uniquely you and at the same time like every other human being. Bodies have more exciting bits and carry out more strenuous tasks than you’ve probably ever imagined. For instance, although you’ve not likely counted them, five million hairs sprout from the 36 to 60 square feet (3.3 to 5.6 m²) of durable, waterproof covering you know as skin. Beneath this living overcoat are three types of muscles, your “movers and shakers,” more than 600 in all, which connect to, and are supported by, the 206 bones forming your skeleton. This lightweight framework is not only flexible, but also incredibly strong. Your thigh bones, for example, are pound for pound stronger than reinforced concrete.

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October 1, 2007

The Four Freedoms

The Four Freedoms

The desire to love someone through and through and to be loved that way in return, for a lifetime, burns in almost every heart. Although we are all truly worthy of such love, it is not something that will usually happen by itself. A superb relationship, one that satisfies and stimulates to the core, is an extraordinary accomplishment, comparable to supreme achievement in realms of business, the arts, science, and sports. Such relationships are rare not because people lack the capacity for loving but because they don’t know how to make the shift from falling in love to sustaining that love over many years by creating and recreating it again and again.

You might believe that continuously creating love is an impossibly daunting task. Perhaps you’ve been through painful unions before, and your heart is battered and broken. Or your present relationship, although comfortable, has become just a little boring, stuck in a rut of mundane sameness. Then again, you might be at the outset of a wondrous romance and only slightly  haunted by a niggling suspicion that your passion will eventually fade. Whatever your present circumstances, do not allow preconceptions and fears to impede your heart’s aspirations. Living a lifelong, passionate, and intimate union is not a complicated undertaking. On the contrary, it is quite simple and well within your abilities. The fundamental requirement? Rediscover and reunite your Four Freedoms: Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul. These Four Freedoms are the essence of human nature, yours and everyone else’s.

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September 30, 2007

Relationship Happiness and The Four Freedoms

"Relationship Happiness and The Four Freedoms"
 
SLSCover.jpgRight this moment, just as you are, you have four unimaginably powerful resources at your command. With them you can accomplish miracles. They are your Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul.

Although you are already innately aware of these elemental forces—their strength, dynamism, and wonder—the wise inner voice of your higher self becomes overwhelmed in a world of speed, superficiality, and complexity. Reclaiming your Four Freedoms helps you to hear truth again, to remember who you are and why you are in a body, and to gain emotional stability and courage as well as mental clarity and focused attention. The Four Freedoms framework gives you a secure platform when your world begins to tremble and quake.
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