How well do you really know each other? How much do you take each other for granted?
Time for Exercise: 15 minutes to one hour
Properties Required: pen and paper
Steps:
Answer the following questions:
What color(s) are your lover’s eyes?
What color is your lover’s ... Views: 602
"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: 601
Happiness 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: 601
I’ll be Watching You
Time for Exercise: two minutes to one hour
Properties Required: none
Steps:
Ask your lover permission to watch as she does things that might ordinarily be completely private. Some ideas of things you can ask for: undressing, dressing, any particular aspect of ... Views: 590
You Go First
The poet Alta once wrote, “Let’s stop hurting each other. You go first.” Somebody has to go first if things are going to change for the better.
Time for Exercise: 15 minutes to one hour
Properties Required: none
Steps:
Identify a contentious issue that ... Views: 590
Baby 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: 589
Integration 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: 584
LIVING 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: 583
Mind Freedom Exercises
Exercises To Do Together
by Al Link and Pala Copeland
Delectable Deliberations
One of the sexiest turn-ons for men and women is the intellectual stimulation of exploring and disagreeing about ideas.
Time for Exercise: the length of a meal
Properties Required: none
... Views: 571
Part 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: 569
Gift Wrapped (for Women)
Time for Exercise: one to two hours
Properties Required: clay and paints
Steps:
With clay, papier mâché, or simple play-dough form a likeness of your yoni (Sanskrit for vagina).
Paint your yoni with stunning colors and symbols.
Wrap it ... Views: 563
Open your heart. Keep your heart open. Open it again every time it closes.
Time for Exercise: one minute
Properties Required: none
Steps:
Imagine the one best thing that could happen for the following people in your life. What if you could grant each of these people one wish? What ... Views: 560
I Changed My Mind…
And she never gives out, and she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
Billy Joel, She's Always a Woman
Time for Exercise: 10 to 30 minutes
Properties Required: none
Steps:
Individually select an issue that has been a bone of contention ... Views: 556
The Whine Cellar
Do you catch yourself whining and complaining needlessly about what ails you and what you don’t like? Do you notice your lover doing the same? Whining and complaining rarely elicit compassion from those around us but rather tend to annoy everyone. Certainly it is ... Views: 554
Completely Committed
Time for Exercise: 15 minutes
Properties Required: none
Steps:
Explain to your partner what your commitment means.
Give evidence that supports your statement and shows your commitment. Below are examples of evidence that commitment is real. The items on this ... Views: 547
One 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: 547
Time 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: 543
I'm Yours
Time for Exercise: 15 minutes to one hour
Properties Required: colored pens with washable ink suitable for writing on skin
Steps:
Take turns writing loving, sexy statements on your body and your lover’s body.
Read each other aloud “like a book.”
... Views: 543
Three Out of Three
“I want you. I need you. I love you.” Could there be any sentences sweeter than these to hear your lover speak?
Time for Exercise: 15 minutes
Properties Required: none
Steps:
Prepare in advance what you will say to your lover for each of these three ... Views: 538
Heart Freedom Exercises
Exercises To Do Together
by Al Link and Pala Copeland
Lovers’ Days
Asking your lover for what you want and giving your lover whatever has been requested are two sides of the same coin—a yin/yang balance of receiving/giving, and passive/active pleasure. Just ... Views: 537
"The First Freedom: Body"
(Part 1 of 7)
by Al Link and Pala Copeland
Body Marvels
Your body is an extraordinary organism, an electrical, chemical, and mechanical marvel. Its trillions of individual cells array themselves in complex combinations to produce the physical wonder that is at once ... Views: 507