Intimacy
Individual Need for Gratification
Thursday, April 29th, 2010In our era, many relationships reach a crossroads at which desire for individual need gratification begins to yield in greater or lesser degree to the urge to assist one another on the spiritual path. There is an expanding literature now on the topic of intimate relationship as a vehicle for personal […]
Disillusion and Suffering with Egoistic Relationships
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010Moments of intense pleasure and passion are possible in egoistic relationships, but these moments are transitory, always followed by disappointment as the pleasure fades and the apparent faults and flaws in the other person and in the situation reassert themselves, causing disillusionment and suffering. Lovers who practice tantric disciplines may […]
The Struggle between Ego and Love
Thursday, April 15th, 2010Precisely because perinatal scripts reflectour karmic agendas so accurately, intimate relationships offer us compelling opportunities for new learning. The love for another person—be it a child, a parent, a friend or a lover—can challenge as nothing else the power of personal desire for pleasure, power, and other forms of ego […]
Conception, Prenatal Experience and Adult Relationships
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010The emotional climate of interaction between parents at the time of conception seems to set the pattern for intimacy in later life, especially intimacy between lovers and marriage partners. Mother’s issues while we are in the womb can also have a profound influence on our ways of experiencing intimate relationship, […]
Sheila’s Third Block: Backache
Friday, January 15th, 2010Sheila’s headache was gone now, revealing her third block: pain in
her back. I asked what her backache wanted to say. “You never supported me. All you cared about was my going to school and earning money. You never came to any of my softball games or even read the poetry I wrote. All you cared […]
Impact of Parental Attitudes at Conception on Our Feelings about Sex
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Karmic Therapy focused on conception is often the quickest and easiest way to deal with sexual dysfunction and other difficulties with intimacy. Among the many hundreds of patients I have seen over three decades, I can’t recall a single instance where the patient could not recall anything about conception.
Rhonda, a woman in her late twenties, […]
LEARNING ABOUT INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS IN KARMIC THERAPY
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Intimacy Starvation
Saturday, April 19th, 2008Reflecting on our culture, perhaps it is lack of true intimacy that lies at the root of our blindness and excess. Maybe we are trying to compensate for absence of deep contact, with ourselves and with others, by spending more, working longer hours, playing harder, obsessing about our bodies, abusing the environment out of short-sighted […]