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- Body Freedom Exercise (17): Body Painting - by Submitted on Feb 28, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandBody Painting Time for Exercise: 30 minutes to two hours Properties Required: washable body paints, drop sheet Steps: Place the drop sheet (an old bed sheet or large piece of plastic) on the floor to protect it. Get naked. Take turns painting each other’s bodies. ...
Views: 1083 - Body Freedom Exercise (16): Stunning Sensory Stimulation - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandStunning Sensory Stimulation We rely on our eyes, sometimes at the expense of our other senses. They can become dulled without attention and use. This fun-filled exercise awakens you once again to the mystery of sound, touch, smell, and taste. Time for Exercise: 30 minutes Properties ...
Views: 780 - Body Freedom Exercise (15): Touch Time - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandTime for Exercise: 20 minutes to several hours Properties Required: water, oil, or silicone lubricants (optional) Steps: Set aside a special lovemaking time for learning about how you each like to be touched. Decide who will touch and who will be touched. The toucher says, ...
Views: 522 - Body Freedom Exercise (14): High On Hugs - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandHigh on Hugs Time for Exercise: 10 seconds to one minute per hug Properties Required: none Steps: Give your lover different kinds of hugs. Ask your lover to guess each hug’s meaning. Here are some suggestions for hugs with different qualities and various degrees and ...
Views: 947 - Body Freedom Exercise (13): Touch Me Like This - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandTouch Me Like This Time for Exercise: 20 minutes to several hours Properties Required: water, oil, or silicone lubricants and sex toys (optional) Steps: Invite your lover to an erotic demonstration of some ways you would like to be touched sexually. Set a time frame or leave time ...
Views: 789 - Body Freedom Exercise (12): The Parts Party - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandThe Parts Party Ignorance about human anatomy is monumental. Find out about each other’s parts, where they are, what they do, and how they are related to reproduction, sexual function, and sexual pleasure. Time for Exercise: five to 15 minutes per session (several sessions highly ...
Views: 1002 - Body Freedom Exercise (11): Pleasure Points - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandPleasure Points Acupressure releases muscle tension and eliminates the toxins held in muscle tissue, enabling energy and blood to flow freely. As blood circulation increases, oxygen and other nutrients can nourish more areas of the body, naturally heightening your sensuality. Many of the same ...
Views: 12930(1 vote) - Body Freedom Exercise (10): Minute Massage - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandBody Freedom Exercises Exercises To Do Together Minute Massage Massage makes your body happy. Its many benefits include stress reduction, lower blood pressure, enhancement of inner security, increased self-worth, relaxation, smooth energy flow within the body, and, of course, pleasure. You ...
Views: 812 - Body Freedom Exercise (9): Body Sounds - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandBody Sounds The body makes very interesting internal sounds, including: digestion as food moves through the stomach and intestines, breathing, heart beating and pumping blood, and eating food, including chewing and swallowing. Listen to these sounds, become familiar with them, and notice how ...
Views: 805 - Body Freedom Exercise (8): Baby Body - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandBaby Body Safety, security, acceptance, and belonging are universal human needs. The Baby Body exercise offers these things as unconditional gifts of love. Time for Exercise: five minutes Properties Required: none Steps: One of you holds the other with unimaginable tenderness, as ...
Views: 571 - Body Freedom Exercise (7): Sweet Feet - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandSweet Feet Time for Exercise: 15 minutes to one hour Properties Required: plastic dishwashing pan, two towels, bar of fine soap, sloughing cream, pedicure items, e.g., pumice stone, toenail clippers, nail file, nail buff, nail sticks, nail polish, foot creams, and lotions Steps: Gather ...
Views: 609 - Body Freedom Exercise (6): Sacred Bathing - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandSacred Bathing Time for Exercise: 15 minutes to one hour Properties Required: fine bath soaps, bath oils, bath salts, bubble bath, fresh or dried flower petals, shampoos, incense, essential oils, music, candles, refreshments (optional) Steps: Make sure the room is wonderfully warm. ...
Views: 588 - Body Freedom Exercise (5): Sensational Scents - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandSensational Scents Your sense of smell is intricately connected to your brain’s memory function and is a source of great erotic pleasure. Time for Exercise: one or more hours Properties Required: private vehicle or public transportation Steps: Identify the locations you ...
Views: 997 - Body Freedom Exercise (4): Tantalizing Tastes - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandTantalizing Tastes Time for Exercise: 15 minutes to one hour Properties Required: cookbook, pen, and paper Steps: Pick a recipe from any cookbook. Add sexy words and images to any part of the recipe to create an erotic poem. (Food and poetry are so deliciously ...
Views: 912 - Body Freedom Exercise (3): Yummy Yoni (For Women) - by Submitted on Feb 07, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandYummy Yoni (For Women) Women are often taught, subliminally or overtly, that their genitals are smelly, dirty, and ugly. This exercise will help you see the power and the glory in your beautiful yoni (Sanskrit for vagina or vulva). Time for Exercise: 10 minutes to one ...
Views: 4331 - Body Freedom Exercise (2): Body Gazing - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandBody Freedom Exercises Exercises To Do On Your Own by Al Link and Pala Copeland Body Gazing The commercial media encourage you to see your body as an ongoing renovation project—one that will never be completed and can never quite conform to the ideal type, no matter what you do. ...
Views: 833 - Body Freedom Exercise (1): Fit For Sex - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2008 from Al Link and Pala Copeland4 Freedoms Exercises Reclaim your 4 Freedoms through awareness and action. Manifest the ideas you’ve just read about by engaging in these exercises. Delight your body, awaken your mind, open your heart, and free your soul. Exercises are organized under the following headings: ...
Views: 1106 - Integrating Your 4 Freedoms (Part 9 Of 9) - Vision And Purpose - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandVision and Purpose Choice is the foundation of all Four Freedoms. You reclaim your freedom by making new choices and acting consistently to support those choices. Although you won’t get what you want if you don’t know what it is, you don’t have to know exactly what you ...
Views: 655 - Integrating Your 4 Freedoms (Part 8 of 9) - Mate Relationship and Summary Of The 4 Freedoms - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandIntegration in a Mate Relationship A mate relationship is a superlative setting for integrating your Four Freedoms. A relationship is the ideal arena for learning to become whole. Lovers do not complete each other but rather comprise one whole relationship. Not only is committed ...
Views: 572 - Integrating Your 4 Freedoms (Part 7 of 9) - Desire As Freedom - by Submitted on Jan 31, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandJust as we are sometimes taught that pleasure is a sinful path to follow, so are we warned of the terrible power of desire. Desire can lead us to overindulgence, to betrayal, and to misery. “The abstinent run away from what they desire, but carry their desires with them. When a man ...
Views: 630 - Integrating Your 4 Freedoms (Part 6 Of 9) : Pleasure - by Submitted on Jan 30, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandLIVING A LIFE OF PLEASURE The true nature of reality is obviously a mystery. There is no “objective reality” to fasten onto as a conclusive guide for living. This can be frightening or freeing, for if there is no absolute certainty, then your reality is up to you. You create ...
Views: 559 - Integrating Your 4 Freedoms (Part 5 Of 9) - An Experiment In Awareness - by Submitted on Jan 29, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandDeveloping an Empirical Awareness of the Four Freedoms You can do simple experiments to comprehend that all elements of you are interconnected. For 30 seconds think a very negative thought, for instance, your partner has left you, you have been fired, or your home has burned down. Stop the ...
Views: 663 - *** Tantra And Enlightenment: Illumination-The Absolute Brightness of Being - by Submitted on Jan 29, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandIllumination—The Absolute Brightness of Being We are Al Link and Pala Copeland. We have been practicing Tantric sacred sexuality since 1987 and teaching since 1997. Al had the enlightenment experience in January 2008 and within minutes made a direct transmission to Pala. This came after ...
Views: 1882(3 votes) - Integrating Your 4 Freedoms (Part 4 of 9) - Ultimate Reality: Consciousness - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandUltimate Reality: Consciousness If the difference between particles and waves is so slippery, and if time and space are so easily transcended, what is the fundamental nature of reality? What is real? One answer is consciousness. Consciousness is original and fundamental, everything ...
Views: 634 - Integrating Your 4 Freedoms (Part 3 of 9) - Remote Viewing - by Submitted on Jan 24, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandRemote Viewing Experiments Outside the realm of physics, other experiments have shown that there are connections between mind and matter that can’t be explained by the old model of separation. Studies starting in 1972 and lasting over two decades were conducted under the sponsorship ...
Views: 763 - Integrating Your 4 Freedoms (Part 2 of 9) - String Theory - by Submitted on Jan 23, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandString Theory The theory of strings, sometimes referred to as the theory of everything,i is considered by many physicists to be the most promising explanation to date for the nature of ultimate reality. It suggests the possibility that there is a connection, as well as a separation, between the ...
Views: 768 - Integrating Your 4 Freedoms (Part 1 of 9) - Quantum Reality - by Submitted on Jan 22, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandIntegrating Your 4 Freedoms Separation or Unity – What is the Nature of Reality? The Western world loves to compartmentalize, creating boxes of separation so that the complexities of life are easier to comprehend and simpler to cope with. We separate work from family life, spiritual ...
Views: 799 - Happiness - Soul Freedom (Part 7 Of 7) - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandHappiness is your birthright. Happiness does not need to be a fleeting, momentary, and fragile thing. Happiness is a natural accompaniment to Soul Freedom. Soul finds happiness in simplicity, in the mystery of everyday life—the warmth of a lovers’ touch, the interplay of stimulating ...
Views: 584 - Ceremony And Ritual - Soul Freedom (Part 6 of 7) - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandThrough ritual, ceremony, and energy practices, we touch the unknown and the unknowable—the divine mystery. Ritual and ceremony are the language of the soul. They activate the awesome, magical possibilities in the imaginal realm of our creativity. We are amazed, astonished, and filled with ...
Views: 901 - Meaning of Life - Soul Freedom (Part 5 of 7) - by Submitted on Jan 17, 2008 from Al Link and Pala Copeland"The Meaning of Life and The Meaning in Life" The meaning of life is forever a mystery. Some mysteries are unsolvable and best left that way. But the meaning in life is entirely different. Life is not a problem needing a solution; it is an experience to be lived fully in the present, ...
Views: 1089 - Passionate Detachment - Soul Freedom (Part 4 of 7) - by Submitted on Jan 16, 2008 from Al Link and Pala Copeland"Passionate Detachment" Carlos Castaneda has written a series of remarkable books in which he describes his shamanic apprenticeship with the Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan. Don Juan advises Castaneda that a man of knowledge (an impeccable warrior) chooses a path and follows it with heart, acting as ...
Views: 3172 - Surrender - Soul Freedom (Part 3 of 7) - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2008 from Al Link and Pala Copeland"Surrender" The challenge and opportunity of faith is to surrender to God’s will (the Divine rhythm, the flow of the Tao) believing that however badly things might be going in this moment, in the long term you will attain your heart’s true desire and your life will unfold in a way ...
Views: 677 - Freedom And Responsibility - Soul Freedom (Part 2 of 7) - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2008 from Al Link and Pala Copeland"Freedom and Responsibility" The essence of Soul Freedom is faith. Science is what you believe because of the evidence. In spiritual matters, faith is what you believe, despite evidence to the contrary. Faith enables you to keep going when all appears hopeless and to say, “That ...
Views: 666 - The Fourth Freedom: Soul (Part 1 of 7) - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandOne and All You are a soul that has a body, not a body that has a soul. At first glance this might seem a petty semantic difference, but on further consideration the difference is profound. Instead of being a body with a soul trapped inside longing to escape back to the One, the All, the ...
Views: 523 - Heartbreak As Teacher - Heart Freedom (Part 8 of 8) - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2008 from Al Link and Pala Copeland"Heartbreak as Teacher" In your quest for Heart Freedom, there is value in the pain of a broken heart. It gives you feedback to learn about changing and growing. Pain can be seen not simply as arbitrary suffering but as a teacher. Emotional discomfort and pain are inevitable parts of the human ...
Views: 830(1 vote) - Keeping Your Heart Open - Heart Freedom (Part 7 of 8 ) - by Submitted on Jan 09, 2008 from Al Link and Pala Copeland"Keeping Your Heart Open" As you proactively manifest Heart Freedom, in the context of a monogamous committed relationship, your burden of fear, pain, and insecurity declines continuously and sometimes dramatically. You can heal wounds from childhood to the present quite naturally without ...
Views: 603 - Men in Relationship:The Superhero-Heart Freedom (Part 6 Of 8 ) - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandIn popular culture such as the cinema, superheroes are rarely associated with mature, fulfilling, sexual relationships. However, they can and should be. Doing so would begin the process of popularizing a model worthy of emulation, the hero as warrior and lover, all rolled into one glorious human ...
Views: 738 - Men In Relationship - Heart Freedom (Part 5 of 8 ) - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandPart 5 of 8 "Men in Relationship: The Hero Who Admits He Is Afraid" Many men are reluctant to embrace relationships but relationships are the marquee event in the Olympics of Life. Winning the gold medal in relationships is as good as it gets in this world. Ask yourself: Is a great ...
Views: 710 - The Keys To Heart Freedom - Heart Freedom (Part 4 of 8 ) - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandPart 4 of 8 "Twelve Keys to the Kingdom of Your Heart’s Desire" Thought cannot heal a broken heart, and thinking will never open a heart that is closed. Only feeling can accomplish such miracles. As Blaise Pascal said long ago, “The heart has its reasons which reason knows ...
Views: 655 - Emotion And Health - Heart Freedom (Part 3 of 8 ) - by Submitted on Jan 03, 2008 from Al Link and Pala CopelandPart 3 of 8 Healthy Emotions for Healthy Lives A direct connection between your heart (emotion and feeling) and the rest of your body affects your state of health. Neurobiologist Candace Pert and a team of researchers with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified ...
Views: 551 - "The Essence Of Heart Freedom: Emotion - Heart Freedom" (Part 2 of 8) - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Al Link and Pala CopelandPart 2 of 8 The essence of heart is emotion. Heart Freedom enables you to experience a bountiful variety and complexity of feelings. The supreme emotion is love, which by its very nature implies a relationship, the lover and the beloved. In modern Western culture, couple relationships are ...
Views: 948 - The Third Freedom: Heart - by Submitted on Dec 28, 2007 from Al Link and Pala CopelandEssence of Emotion Poets, mystics, philosophers, and scientists have long pondered the mysteries of the heart. Religious thought claims the heart as the center of spiritual love. Christianity associates divine love with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Hindus revere Shiva’s sacred heart, ...
Views: 599 - "Transforming Your Relationship - Mind Freedom" - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Al Link and Pala CopelandPart 8 of 8 When you turn the keys of Mind Freedom, you unlock the potential for a truly satisfying union. By paying positive attention to your relationship, focusing on the qualities you want it to exhibit and seeing your part in its evolution, you can break free from limited societal ...
Views: 879 - Mind Freedom In Relationship: Conscious Attention To What Matters - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2007 from Al Link and Pala Copeland"Mind Freedom in Relationship: Conscious Attention to What Matters" Mind Freedom -Part 4 of 8 The world is demanding and constantly changing. People tend to ignore one of their most important anchors for intellectual sanity, emotional security, and spiritual wisdom—their primary ...
Views: 605 - Levels Of Consciousness - Mind Freedom - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2007 from Al Link and Pala CopelandLevels of Consciousness – Mind Freedom Part 2 of 8 by Al Link and Pala Copeland Imagine that consciousness is like water: Your personal consciousness is the supply of water you can carry around in a canteen, as if it belonged to you privately, for your exclusive use. With this personal ...
Views: 795(2 votes) - The Second Freedom: Mind - by Submitted on Dec 13, 2007 from Al Link and Pala Copeland"The Second Freedom: Mind" Part 1 of 8 by Al Link and Pala Copeland Center of the Cyclone Your mind, center of the cyclone of consciousness, is a remarkable servant. When set to work with clear purpose and direction, it can guide you through a myriad of concepts and activities, from the ...
Views: 717(2 votes) - Taking Action - Body Freedom - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2007 from Al Link and Pala CopelandTaking Action – Body Freedom" (Part 7 of 7) by Al Link and Pala Copeland 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 ...
Views: 589 - Claiming Your Body Freedom - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2007 from Al Link and Pala Copeland"Claiming Your Body Freedom – Body Freedom" (Part 6 of 7) by Al Link and Pala Copeland 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. ...
Views: 575 - Sacred Sex - Body Freedom - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2007 from Al Link and Pala Copeland"Sacred Sex – Body Freedom" (Part 5 of 7) by Al Link and Pala Copeland Although most couples want a really good sex life, many are afraid that it’s unattainable because they personally don’t know how to create it. They bury their sexual dreams under the weight of ...
Views: 1219 - Sexual And Non-sexual Touching - Body Freedom - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2007 from Al Link and Pala Copeland"Sexual and Non-sexual Touching – Body Freedom" (Part 4 of 7) by Al Link and Pala Copeland Contrary to the stereotypes that men primarily want sexual touching and women mostly want affectionate touching, both forms are equally important for enduring, satisfying relationships. Men and ...
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