Pleasure

Author: Alexander Lowen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974373720
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
One of the world's leading innovators in the field of psychology shows you how to expand and realize your capacity to feel your body's aliveness, natural freedom, and spontaneity. A more creative life through pleasure is the promise of this revolutionary book. Defining pleasure as a bodily experience, Dr. Alexander Lowen states that there is no such thing as pure mental pleasure and points out that the capacity for pleasure is also the capacity for creative self-expression. In most adults, however, the struggle for power competes with the striving for pleasure, undermines creativity, and causes muscular tensions. Pleasure offers a way out of this dilemma through a series of bioenergetic exercises. These exercises are described in easy-to-follow detail. Their aim is to help the body regain its natural freedom and spontaneity and to release not only pleasure but also joyous creativity.

Pleasure: A Creative Approach to Life

Author: Alexander Lowen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1938485114
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
In Pleasure: A Creative Approach to Life, Alexander Lowen shows how the experience of pleasure or pain determines our emotions, thinking, and behavior. Lowen views the body as the outer manifestation of the spirit and defines grace as the divine spirit acting within the body. For the healthy individual the divine spirit is experienced as the natural gracefulness of the body and is reflected in the person's behavior. In a healthy body, movement, feeling, and thinking are integrated in grace and harmony. This book includes body-psychotherapy techniques and exercises aimed at alleviating muscular tension and restoring the body's natural grace. This spiritual grace involves a sense of connectedness to a higher order. In this state of grace we feel a kinship with all living creatures, and recognize our connection to our environment and to the world.

Fear of Life

Author: Alexander Lowen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974373706
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
An internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author challenges the fears that prevent men and women from experiencing healthy, joyful and fulfilling relationships. Alexander Lowen, M.D., world famous psychiatrist and creator of Bioenergetic Analysis shows you how to resolve your fears and allow yourself to: surrender to love, let go rather than control, be rather than do, flow rather than push. Bioenergetic Analysis helps you: love in anew way, discover sexuality as authenticity, find the courage to truly be, harmonize the mind and the body, use bioenergetic exercises to heal emotional conflicts.

Joy

Author: Alexander Lowen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101501650
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
Surrender to your body and recover joy Alexander Lowen, famous student of Wilhelm Reich and founder of Bioenergetics, reveals in this book how to reclaim a natural, childlike state of joy through exercises that revive the body's vitality and liberate the energy of suppressed feelings. Using examples from four decades of clinical practice, Lowen shows how painful emotional experiences—from sexual abuse and fear of dying to the anger and heartbreak all human beings experience in life—are manifested in bodily symptoms. He then instructs readers how to listen for and answer the unique signals in the body that serve as internal cries for freedom. The vibrant health that results has a wide range of holistic benefits for the total being, including enhanced sexual pleasure and heightened spirituality. Joy, the culmination of Lowen’s life work, is a wonderfully hopeful and transformational guide from one of the pioneers of body/mind therapy.

Embodiment

Author: James B. Nelson
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451410235
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Few would doubt that this is a time of transition in our understanding of human sexuality. The confusion about sexual morals and mores is the more obvious evidence of this. But there is something else. For too long the bulk of Christian reflection about sexuality has asked an essentially one-directional question: what does Christian faith have to say about our lives as sexual beings?

The Pursuit of Pleasure

Author: Arsen Dallan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3838269500
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
This important book unveils how the pleasure principle has taken humanity hostage to the powers of branding and consumerism, steering our most basic desires. Radically re-evaluating the notion of pleasure and arguing for a deep societal change, it shows the way to a new humanist culture.

The Ultimatum of Pleasure

Author: Arsen Dallakyan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761869441
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
This book is dedicated to the research of the “pleasure phenomenon” as the most important factor in individual and socio-cultural development. In a society of mass consumption, pleasure—having turned into a commodity and a means of manipulation—defines civilizational development. The authors theorize that the pursuit of pleasure can destroy one’s self, culture, and environment. The recent rapid technological expansion has turned pleasure into a societal challenge. This study emphasizes the necessity of intrinsic transformation of marketing in the 21st Century which would shift the focus from seeking pleasure to controlling desires in a way that would benefit self, society, and the world.

The Evolution Of Psychotherapy

Author: Jeffrey K. Zeig
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317736907
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
A collection of papers from the third Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference. The Evolution Conferences are organized by The Milton H. Erickson Foundation. The Erickson Foundation is a nonprofit educational organization. First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Art of Creative Thinking

Author: Robert W. Olson
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061990310
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
DO IT!That's the simple, eloquent message of The Art of Creative Thinking. It will teach you how to nurture, develop and exercise creative abilities and provide tools that enable you to recognize opportunities and develop fresh insights into everyday, on-the-job problems.The techniques of the DO IT process combine the systematic approaches of business and engineering with the intuitive approaches of art and music.The Art of Creative Thinking will show you how to Define the problem, Open your mind, Identify solutions and Transform the problem.These are skills you can learn. As you practice The Art of Creative Thinking you will find that along with increased productivity come increased health and happiness as well.

Planning for Retirement

Author: United States. Adjutant-General's Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Retired military personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description