The Secret Wisdom of Ancient Parable: Lessons for Living Positively
All You Need To Know To Attain The Life You Want: The wisdom found in parables is universal, immune to changes in culture, time or place. While these stories originate from many different traditions, their messages transcend how we conceive reality, reaching far into the depth of our psyches as well as touching the edges...
Fantasies and Gender
Research has shown that sexual fantasies differ along gender lines. In general, because of many social influences, men and women tend to think about sex differently. Women more commonly connect sex with love, while men more frequently detach sex from affection and experience it as recreational. Menâs fantasies tend to objectify women and emphasize body...
What Do Our Fantasies Say About the Past?
Where do our fantasies and erotic images come from and what do they tell us about the deeper nature of who we are? We have been led to believe that our sexual fantasies are random imaginings, but nothing could be further from the truth. At their base lies fragments of our history, conflict, and strife...
The Advantage of Sex
Sex is an affirmation of life. By making sex a prominent part of itâplacing it on the top of our list of prioritiesâit helps us face daily challenges in other parts of our lives. No matter what struggles there are, we put them aside and establish a time and place to embrace desire and pleasure....
What Attracts You?
Itâs not always easy to grasp the complexity of our sexual attractions. Much that of what happens is invisible. The following exercise will help identify those specific characteristics and traits in others that excite the deeper psychological and spiritual aspects of our sexualityâthose that create the feeling of chemistry. Here’s an Observational Exercise: The next...
Why Smart Sex is Better Than Great Sex
I have been a psychotherapist in New York City for thirty-five years. During this time, I have counseled innumerable patients. In nearly every case, regardless of whatever problem that led someone to seek therapy, the conversation will inevitable turn to sex. Some patients express disappointment over the amount of sex in their lives, some are...
Cracking the Code of Sexual Chemistry
âSexual attraction is not at all a purely physical event. The soul is always in search of whatever will complete its desire, and our physical eyes are never separate from the eyes of the soul.â -Thomas Moore Weâve all had the experience of seeing someone on the street or in a social setting and feeling...
