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Centering And The Art Of Intimacy

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The Centering And The Art Of Intimacy Handbook

 

by Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks

Now you can enjoy Centering And The Art Of Intimacy, the first book Gay and Katie wrote together thirty years ago, and The Centering And The Art Of Intimacy Workbook, the subsequent compilation of activities that they developed in sharing their work over many years.  Centering and The Art of Intimacy introduces whole-body learning and the somatic perspectives that distinguish the Hendricks’ work from other approaches to relationship transformation. You may recognize the seeds of concepts that Gay and Katie have continued to explore and refine, such as the Upper Limits Problem. Centering and The Art of Intimacy Handbook gives you dozens of reliable activities and processes that emerged from years of sharing these radical new concepts with groups of singles, couples and professionals. Together these books give you a comprehensive, body-wisdom approach to thriving relationships and deep intimacy.

 

From Centering and the Art of Intimacy:

 

“Beneath all the strivings for recognition, power, money and things, what human beings really want is a total, permanent experience of love… But what keeps us from feeling it? The reason is this… The love and positive energy that is generated between two people brings problems… stemming from past experiences… to the surface, and we either deal with what comes up in a way that lets more love in or shuts it out…We retreat from the other person and blame the problems on a lack of love in the relationship… There are myriad ways of shutting out love. There are only a few ways of letting more love in… These few secrets are so powerful that we really do not need more. All we need to do is learn what they are and how to use them properly.”

 

Centering and the Art of Intimacy

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Contents

 

Prologue / 5

one / The Secret, 7

two / How to Get Close, 14

three/ On Getting Separate, 22

four / The Differences Between a Relationship and an Entanglement, 26

five/ How to Create Enlightening Relationships, 33

six/ The Intentions and Agreements Essential to an Enlightening Relationship, 38

seven/ Look and Feel Like in the Body, 45

eight / Projection: A Major Barrier to Enlightening Relationships, 53

nine / Solving the Upper-Limits Problem: Learning to Handle More Positive Energy, 59

ten / Specific Problem-Solving Strategies, 72

eleven / Sex and Money in Enlightening Relationships, 80

twelve / Experiments in Enlightening Relationships, 87

Epilogue / 105

 

Centering and the Art of Intimacy Workbook

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Contents

 

PART ONE: A NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS

Introduction: In the Laboratory of the Human Heart / 6

Chapter 1. The Essentials of Close Relationships / 8

Chapter 2. Love in Action: A Couple Transforms Their Relationship / 19

Chapter 3. Our Story: How Our Own Relationship Developed / 25

 

PART TWO: THE WORKBOOK: YOUR MANUAL FOR TRANSFORMING YOUR CLOSE RELATIONSHIP

Introduction / 35

Chapter 4. The Activities / 37

Assessing Your Intimacy Level / 37 T

he Fundamental Communication Activities / 39

Truth Telling / 40

The Aliveness Experiment / 46

Sorting Feelings / 47

The Feeling Inquiry / 53

Agreements and Aliveness / 55

Your Relationship Dance / 56

The Bottom Line / 57

The Enlightening Relationship Two-step / 58

Experiments in Getting Close / 60

Choosing Closeness / 60

Exploring Getting Close / 61

Moving Closer / 62

Breathing Together / 63 E

xperiments in Autonomy / 64

Getting Separate / 64

The Autonomy Clues / 66

Learning to Take Space / 67

Establishing the Foundation: The Intentions and Agreements Essential to an Enlightening Relationship / 68

Communicating Intentions / 69

Envisioning the Future / 70

The Persona Work / 71

The Persona Worksheet / 71

The Persona Interview / 76

The Costs and Payoffs of Attachment to Personas / 77

Integrating Personas / 78

Exercises on Projections / 82

Who Is Seeing? / 84

The Projection Theater /84

Moving Through Projection / 85

Problem Solving / 86

Learning to Love Yourselves Together / 87

Becoming Aware of Your Underlying Intentions / 88 T

he Delicate Art of Giving Feedback / 88

Interrupting Routines / 90

Choosing Relationship / 91

Strategies for Getting Unstuck / 94

Creating a New Future / 95

Taming Your Upper-Limits Dragon Activities for Enhancing a Relationship that Already Works / 96

The Four Essentials Increasing Your Spice Quotient / 104

Moving Together in Harmony / 106

Dream Sharing / 106

Fluffing the Body Energy / 108

Supporting Creativity / 108

Afterword / 110

 

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