One of the main practices in tantric intimacy is to eye-gaze with our partner. Why? Why is this such an important part of genuine connection? This is article #1 of '100 Ways to Create Intimacy in Your Relationship'.
One way to take the passion out of lovemaking is to come into it with goals in mind. It seems natural to gave the goal of ejaculation or orgasm. But these goals are very limited. These are the least interesting aspects of sexual intimacy. These are simply goals of our basic self — the primal self who desires to procreate. All animals have these goals. It is built into our basic survival wiring. But we are so much more than that. This is article #3 of '100 Ways to Create Intimacy & Connection'.
After years of oppression and the idea that sex is taboo, non-spiritual, dirty, and all kinds of other nonsense, our sexual lives have become either something to be ashamed of if we aren’t doing it for procreation or it is something where we focus on achieving a certain level of pleasure — for ourselves or our partner. While both of these things are great, what’s beautiful about sexual intimacy is that there can be so much more.
An empath is someone who feels the emotions of others. Early on in life, this can be very confusing because we can’t discern between the emotions of others and our own. So, we think that we are upset all of the time, when in fact, these are not our emotions at all — they belong to those around us. What happens when an empath is in an intimate relationship?