This is a book about making contact―with yourself, your partner, and everything around you―at the deepest level possible. The basis for this connection is what Dr. Judith Blackstone calls fundamental consciousness―what we all are in our essence. In The Intimate Life, this innovative teacher and psychotherapist shares 17 relational practices from her unique approach to embodied spiritual awakening known as the Realization Process. Offered to help us relate “core to core” with compassion, understanding, and joy, The Intimate Life explores:
“Our spirituality flowers as we bring love alive in our lives. In The Intimate Life, Judith Blackstone guides us in how to release resistance to authentic contact and how to realize our inherent oneness with all beings. Her teachings are lucid, powerful, and wise―this book is a gem!”―Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance
“With grace and profound insight, Judith Blackstone presents wise guidance on how we can more genuinely connect with and recognize the luminous depth of each other―and the world.”―Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author, Love for No Reason and Happy for No Reason
 Attuning to Unified Consciousness―how to let go of our conditioned perceptions and behaviors to foster spiritual maturation • Overcoming boundary problems―how to embrace the paradox of oneness and separateness • Awareness, emotion, and physical contact―the three main pathways of interpersonal connection • The spiritual essence of sexuality―spiritual exercises that apply unified consciousness to sexuality to enhance pleasure, liberate the body’s subtle energy, and more To genuinely love other people is one of the central ideals in every spiritual tradition. It’s also one of our greatest challenges. Here is a transformational guide to becoming “lovers of life” and experiencing the full potential of our intimate relationships.

The Intimate Life: Awakening to the Spiritual Essence in Yourself and Others

Self-Help

Blackstone PH.D., Judith

Relationships

SOUNDS TRUE.

A Step-By-Step Course in Embodied Spiritual Awakening
It is possible to live more deeply, more intimately in touch with yourself and with the world around you. It is possible to experience your interconnection with everything, even as you express your own utter uniqueness. All it takes is a subtle inner attunement to your own body and mind. With The Realization Process, Dr. Judith Blackstone shares for the first time a complete audio training course in her original method for embodied spiritual awakening, through a series of transformational exercises taught here step by step.
Attunement to "Fundamental Consciousness"
At the heart of this work is what Dr. Blackstone calls fundamental consciousness―a primary dimension of being that is the basis of both our individual sense of self and the transcendence of our separateness. This is not something we can grasp conceptually; we need to touch it directly. "As fundamental consciousness, we pervade both the subject and the object of experience," she explains. "We move from imagination to actuality―to truly see, truly touch, truly hear." For the past 25 years in her psychotherapy practice, Dr. Blackstone has developed meditative practices for attuning to fundamental consciousness in oneself and in others. On The Realization Process, she guides you through beginner and advanced versions of these practices, including the core breath technique for accessing the body's central energetic pathway; seeing, hearing, and moving with fundamental consciousness; attuning to the three qualities of fundamental consciousness (awareness, emotion, and physical sensation); and relational exercises for healing and growth in intimate partnerships.
Highlights
Undoing the "holding patterns" that impede spiritual realizationThe subtle core―your entryway into fundamental consciousnessThe maturation of the egoHow to stabilize and expand your spiritual awakeningFollowing your body's energetic "circuitry" as a path to deeper embodimentSix hours of insights and guided exercises for transforming your experience of yourself, your relationships, and the world

The Realization Process: A Step-by-Step Guide to Embodied Spiritual Awakening

Profound empathy. Clear insight. A gift for healing. These are just some of the talents of the “spiritually sensitive” person―yet these apparent blessings can often become a source of loneliness, self-doubt, and limitation. Belonging Here is a lifesaving book that shows how our spiritual gifts become entryways into both the depths of human connection and our innermost selves.
Written by one spiritual sensitive for another, Belonging Here draws from Dr. Blackstone's personal story as well as her 30-year psychotherapy practice, which has focused on teaching clients how to integrate personal healing and spiritual awakening through an embodied approach she calls the Realization Process. Join this pioneering teacher to explore five of the most common challenges of the spiritually sensitive, along with exercises and meditations for living mindfully and compassionately with each, including:
Thin Skin―how to create strong but permeable boundaries between ourselves and the external environment • Landing on Earth―staying grounded within the whole of one's body by mending inner fragmentation • Hearing the Cries of the World―how to open to our own joy even as we respond to the suffering in the world around us • Shape Shifters―removing the protective masks of the false personality • The Stranger―how to make the return from self-exile to self-acceptance You can live authentically in a world that once seemed alien. You can find happiness and acceptance where isolation and confusion have reigned. You can come home at last, with Belonging Here.

Belonging Here: A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

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The Intimate Life: Awakening to the Spiritual Essence in Yourself and Others

The Realization Process: A Step-by-Step Guide to Embodied Spiritual Awakening

Belonging Here: A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person