Intimacy: A Guide for Lovers How to Pursue Your Authentic Self and Achieve a Deep Intimacy and Passionate Love in You Life

Extensive social research has consistently demonstrated what we all know instinctively--that having a passionate, intimate relationship is the most important thing people want in order to achieve happiness and fulfillment in life. Intimacy: A Guide for Lovers How to Pursue Your Authentic Self and Achieve a Deep Intimacy and Passionate Love in Your Life is a book that simplifies how to achieve this fundamental need. It is a work to instruct and inspire individuals and couples in becoming the lovers they ache to be. It doesn't matter who you are, you were built to be a lover. This groundbreaking book will help readers understand what intimacy is and how it is different than love. The focus of the book is reducing intimacy to the simplest steps that we all need to practice in order to achieve a relationship that is passionate and fulfilling, i.e. one that is deeply intimate. We all need intimacy in different ways and in different relationships. The book simplifies the nature, types and steps of how to achieve intimacy in general but the focus is helping readers achieve intimacy in a primary romantic relationship. In order to be intimate with another person, you have to first become intimate with yourself. This is a noble quest. Self-intimacy, that is knowing yourself, is a fundamental need you have to meet before you will have the capacity to sustain a deep passionate love with another. This book teaches you how to pursue and achieve your authentic self through developing this deep level of self-awareness. Achieving your highest potential and self-actualization is a conjoint process of self-growth and having a passionate intimacy. This book also guides readers towards better social intimacy and world-centricity. It has new information about reciprocity and compatibility. It discusses roadblocks to intimacy and how to manage the vulnerability of opening yourself to another. It spells out the processes of becoming an intimate lover, and discusses gender differences that relate to achieving intimacy. It discusses sexuality, current trends, with shifting gender roles, and how to practice mindful sex. It includes information on restoring intimacy that is absent, complacent, or damaged by infidelity. It also discusses the process of intimacy over the course of a lifespan. Spirituality and sexuality are discussed in the context of the quest of achieving your highest self. In this space, lovers achieve their greatest capacity to love themselves, their lover and all that is. Compassion, non-judgement and love for all is the vision of the loving eye space—it is the vision of lovers. This book is a scholarly work that presents the material in a non-scholarly fashion. It is accentuated with examples from the author's clinical practice. It has useful discussion topics at the end of each chapter to guide individuals and couples into deeper thought, awareness, communication, growth—and intimacy. It also has suggested readings for each chapter.