Rekindling Pleasure: Seven Exercises for Opening your Heart, Reaching Out and Touching Gently

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  • Bennett Shapiro

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https://doi.org/10.30820/0743-4804-2009-19-53

Palavras-chave:

heart, reaching, touching, pleasure, energetic, exercises

Resumo

The purpose of this article is to help you open your heart, reach out, touch gently and by doing so gain more pleasure in your life. Section I, Introduction, outlines the normal biological pattern of opening your heart, reaching out and touching gently. It introduces a developmental model explaining how internal conflicts are formed that could inhibit the pattern in yourself as an adult and thus reduce your pleasure. Section II, Seven Energetic Exercises, explores internal conflicts through a sequence of exercises that aims to reduce muscular, energetic and emotional inhibitions and increase pleasurable sensations. The exercises are useful both in a therapeutic setting and as self-help. Section III, Rekindling Pleasure in an Ongoing Relationship, demonstrates the importance of seeing your partner as a source of pleasure, and adapts six exercises from Section II for self-help use to address problems that arise in your relationship.

Biografia Autor

Bennett Shapiro

Bennett Shapiro, PhD, is a member of the IIBA Faculty and teaches in the U.S, Canada and Europe. He has a private practice in Victoria, B.C. Canada. He has written more than 30 papers on various aspects of Bioenergetcis, and is now extending and consolidating them into six workbooks, entitled Explorations in Energizing Psychotherapy.
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Shapiro, B. (2022). Rekindling Pleasure: Seven Exercises for Opening your Heart, Reaching Out and Touching Gently. Bioenergetic Analysis, 19(1), 53–84. https://doi.org/10.30820/0743-4804-2009-19-53

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Vol. 19 N.º 1 (2009)

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