The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy by Mark Whitwell

Author:Mark Whitwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books

CHAPTER 9

The Promise of Partnership and the Promise in Partnership

Sex becomes sublime in the garden! Just wait and see! Your base is united with your crown, your inner with your outer, and you are making love with your world in the mutual embrace of passion and respect.

WE ALL NEED TO MOVE BEYOND THE FAIRY TALES OF contrived love and the social pressure to find a partner and develop a sincere, lasting relationship. Your Seven-Minute Wonder is a short and achievable practice that will allow you to develop the necessary sensitivity to receive another in an intimate relationship, and the practical means to develop and sustain it on every level. It is a catalyst for entering into relationship, helping you become strong for others and receptive to others. You can cut a pathway through society’s dysfunction and find somebody who is compatible with you. By choosing to engage in this process, you learn to value your partner as much as you value yourself. Your practice is the gift of touch and connection. It is desire and attachment—the natural giving and receiving of life’s energetic flow. It is compassion in action: breath, movement, and making love.

Relationships require investment and commitment, and the desire and intention to connect with another is a beautiful and necessary part of life. To ensure that your intimate relationship is supportive and nurturing for both parties, you must be ready to acknowledge sex and intimacy as essential parts of the human experience. That requires releasing any ideas that limit your ability to feel and relate. You have it completely within your power to create a nurturing and supportive reality that is inclusive of your intimate partner—you simply have to stop looking and start living.

Fiona’s Story: Space to Develop Intimacy

Following the Promise has, in a most real and tangible way, revealed and enhanced a deep fullness and intimacy between my partner and I. These simple yet profound teachings, so easy and enjoyable, have opened up an untapped depth of relationship I had always longed for but had previously found elusive. From my heart, these words are for everybody who, like me, desires to be connected to his or her true and natural state. As each soft breath is received and released, I feel like I am drinking from an eternal well—the very source of life—that I see to be in us, as us, and all around us. This connection to breath, this breath that is life, I feel deeply in my body, in the heart of my heart, expanding and encompassing an exquisite, innate joy of intimate love and connection with another. It is so effortless and natural, breathing together, moving together, participating in the dance of life together. Separateness and boundaries dissolve as he surrenders himself to me, and I receive him wholly. I feel his love move through me, as me. This is the essence of sex as love, of knowing another as yourself. Strength and softness received from simply inhaling and exhaling, being with body, being with breath.

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