FROM HERE TO ETERNITY

Time for Exercise: 15 to 30 minutes

Properties Required: bed sheet or other large piece of cloth

Steps:
1.One of you lies down as if you were a corpse.

2.Your lover sets the scene with candles and covers you with the black cloth completely from head to toe.

3.Your lover proceeds to say (or read, if it has been prepared in advance) your eulogy.

Comments:

Eulogies for the dead are often poignantly beautiful. Wouldn’t you find it interesting to know what your lover would say about you before you die? This exercise can be extraordinarily powerful, if you can allow yourselves to feel the emotion. When your heart is open, this exercise can change how you live forever after (see Looking Back).

Excerpted from our new book Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, by Al Link and Pala Copeland, Llewellyn, 2007

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Check also at Amazon.com, Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying (Paperback) by Ram Dass

 

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TOGETHER FOREVER

Lifelong commitment normally means growing old together. Think and talk together about how your relationship will mature as your age advances.

Time for Exercise: five to 30 minutes

Properties Required: photograph of an older couple

Steps:

1.Sit down with your lover and allow your imagination to conjure up images of what your life will be like as you grow old together.

• Consider your health status. Visualize how your bodies will look.
• Visualize the activities you will be engaged in, especially those you do as a couple. Will you be sexually active? What form will sex take? What creative pursuits will you enjoy? What accomplishments will you look back on with satisfaction and pride?
• Where will you live? What will your financial status be? What will be happening in your family?
• Imagine all the ways you have helped to make the world a better place.

2.Frame and display your photograph as a visual symbol of the life you choose to create together as you age.

 

Excerpted from our new book Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, by Al Link and Pala Copeland, Llewellyn, 2007

Available at Amazon.com
 


Also available as an eBook in pdf for Adobe Reader, prc for MobiPocket, or on CD.



Check also at Amazon.com, Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying (Paperback) by Ram Dass
 

 

Al Link and Pala Copeland
 
Sexy Spiritual Relationships
 
 
 

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OUT OF BODY

Time for Exercise: five to 30 minutes

Properties Required: none

Steps:

Each evening as you prepare to sleep, give your deeper consciousness instructions for going out of your body.

1.Relax your body completely.

2.Quiet your mind with a meditative practice.

3.Reassure your ego self that you will be safe while you travel and that you can return to your body whenever you wish to, by associating your return with some simple action such as moving your arms or legs.

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THE MEANING OF LIFE

Time for Exercise: five minutes to one hour

Properties Required: pen and paper (optional)

Steps:

1.Think about things you love to do.

2.Which one jumps out at you as the one thing you love most?

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WHAT’S GOOD?

Be careful what you pay attention to because you are going to get more of it. You can help people focus on what they do want by asking them the simple question, “What’s good?”

Time for Exercise: one minute

Properties Required: none

Steps:

1.The next time you greet someone, instead of usual greetings such as “How are you?” “How’s it going?” “What’s new?” ask “What’s good?”

2.Suggest to everyone you know that they start asking others this simple question.

 
Comments:

If you pay attention to how people use language, you will notice that they often phrase responses in negative terms. For example, if you ask someone, “How are you today?” the most frequent response seems to be “Not bad.” If you ask, “How is everything?” they might say, “It could be worse.” When people talk about what they want, they often mention what they don’t want. For example, “I sure hope I don’t get that flu going around,” or “I don’t want to be sick,” or “I don’t want to be poor,” or “I hope my husband is not fooling around on me.”

Excerpted from our new book Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, by Al Link and Pala Copeland, Llewellyn, 2007

Available at Amazon.com

 

Also available as an eBook in pdf for Adobe Reader, prc for MobiPocket, or on CD.



Check also at Amazon.com, Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying (Paperback) by Ram Dass

 

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Freeing the Fool

Time for Exercise: five to 15 minutes

Properties Required: none

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I Changed My Mind…

Time for Exercise: 10 to 30 minutes

Properties Required: none

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Truth and Dare

All the secrets you hold inside are an enormous weight, a needless burden. This exercise offers an excellent opportunity for you to revisit and let go of things from your past that still bother you. All of us have experiences that have left us wounded: times when we felt humiliated, diminished, attacked, violated, abused, rejected, ignored, or misunderstood. Just to have someone listen to your story without judgment, without comment, and without assuming responsibility can lighten your load tremendously.

Time for Exercise: 10 to 30 minutes

Properties Required: none

Popularity: 3% [?]