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Sexuality: Sleep … Perchance to Dream Sexually

ScienceDaily (June 15, 2007) — In detailed research conducted at the Universite de Montreal investigation of the actual nature and content of sexual dreams was undertaken.  In a large sample of dream reports from both men and women, approximately eight percent of everyday dream reports from both genders contain some form of sexual-related activity.

In this  study, authored by Antonio Zadra, PhD, over 3,500 home dream reports were collected from men and women. Sexual intercourse was the most common type of sexual dream content, followed by sexual propositions, kissing, fantasies and masturbation.

The study found that both men and women reported experiencing an orgasm in about four percent of their sexual dreams. Orgasms were described as being experienced

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Abundance: Live — and Love — Abundantly!

Does it seem as though abundance is far, far away? Have you felt overwhelmed by the dire predictions rampant on the news wires? Are you fighting panic … and afraid you don’t know where to turn?  Have you found that this gets in the way of being close to those you love?

Here’s what you can do: You can start NOW and take control of your own experience! You can stop listening to predictions of perdition and begin to create your own prosperity … your own intimate relationship experiences.  And you can begin to do so Right Now! And you need not go further than your own Mind.

It is the very nature of your subconscious mind to CREATE. What does it create? Your subconscious mind creates your thoughts! Your subconscious mind takes the contents of your mind … and brings it into reality. Your subconscious mind—by its very nature—manifests your thoughts in your life!

So, if you believe that the economy is doomed … it is! If you believe your relationship has gone as far as it can … you are right.  Not because—objectively—it has to be.  Rather, because you believe it to be so, it has to be. This is termed “self-fulfilling prophecy”.

But self-fulfilling prophecy works on POSITIVE thoughts, too! So, I challenge you to turn your thoughts in the MOST positive directions your imagination can conceive. Claim this as a part of your life … of your relationship … then carefully notice as it comes to be!

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Emotion Power: Expressing Your Intimate Feelings

Feelings are an incredibly important part of you … and of your relationships! Your emotional responses provide you with valuable information that allows you to live your life in an effective, satisfying, complete way. Other sources of this information include your perceptions, your sensations and your thoughts. Through the use of these aspects you derive guidance, motivation and the wherewithall to make sense of the events that occur.

Your emotional responses also add texture and color and variety and uniqueness to your experience of being alive. Because of the extreme variety that your feelings

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Sexuality: With Age, Better Health Means Better Sex

TUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) – New research looks at sexuality and sexual activity in a scientific way.  In a deviation from the frequent scientific focus that often centers on illness, this new study looks at health and well-being.  It looks at elements that affect quality of life – having a good sex life being critical to overall quality of life.

According to research conducted by University of Chicago’s Program in Integrative Sexual Medicine, better health equates to better sex lives.  These researchers also found that healthy people were more likely to engage in sex — and good sex at that.  Those in good health were more apt to express an interest in sex.

This new research also found that this association held firm into middle-age and later life as well.  This research was published in the March 10 issue of the British Medical Journal.

The study authors examined two different samples of more than 3,000 adults each – in one, the subjects were aged 25 to 74; in the second, the subjects were aged 57 to 85.  Both groups contained an equal number of men and women. Subjects were interviewed and filled in questionnaires on their marital status, their health (rated on a scale from excellent to poor), the quality of their sex lives and how often they had sex.

The study’s authors created a novel
measure called “sexually active life expectancy.” According to this new measure, men aged 55 could expect another 15 years of sex while women of the same age could expect about 11 more active sexual years.

This research provides even-more evidence of the far-reaching benefits of good health.  An active sexual relationship nourishes intimacy and satisfaction.  Having good sexual interaction — both in frequency and in level of gratification — in turn, can function to deepen a relationship, providing stronger, more enduring partnerships.

In order to have good health in older age, it is important to attend to good health TODAY!  Good health today makes for a stronger, healthier body today, tomorrow and throughout tomorrow’s tomorrows.  Good health is an experience that requires attention each and every day … and the best time to start is NOW! What one thing can you do — today — to implement stronger, better health for the GOOD of your life?  I invite you to do it … and to do it each and every day thereafter.

If you are a smoker, perhaps, your one thing might be to stop nicotine.  For help to do so, visit our stop-nicotine website today.  If you are overweight, perhaps, your one thing might be to get your weight to a health level.  For help to do so, visit our weight management website today!

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Intimacy Therapy: Get Your Nose into the Act!

Are you looking for a quick, simple way to spark up your Relationship Intimacy?  Look no further than your — and your partner’s — sense of smell!

Smells work on the limbic system to release neurotransmitters.  The limbic system of the brain not only controls drives of hunger, thirst and sex, but it also influences more subtle responses of emotion, memory, creativity and intuition.  Within the limbic system resides the regulatory mechanism of your highly sensitive inner life, the core of your being.

The olfactory nerves (nerves in the nose) are directly connected to your brain’s limbic system.  Hence, even subtle aromas cause immediate

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Sexuality: The Power of Fantasy to Increase Sexual Desire

ScienceDaily — Scientists of the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the University of Granada have released a new study.  Researcher Juan Carlos Sierra Freire studied how some psychological variables such as
* positive attitude towards sexuality
* sexual fantasies
* anxiety
are related to sexual desire in human beings.

The Study

Using the Sexual Desire Inventory, 608 subjects aged 13 to 43 were studied.  Researchers found that 32% of inhibited sexual desire in men was associated with a negative attitude toward sexuality, as well as some sexual fantasies. Eighteen percent of such inhibited sexual desire in women was due to increased anxiety and decreased sexual fantasizing. According to researchers, these figures show that psychological factors, which have a role in sexual response, depend on gender.

The Power of Imagination

The results of this research reveal
an important relation between sexual desire and positive attitude toward sexuality in men. Men responded more positively towards sexual stimuli and thoughts, and they accepted them more easily. The male population has an attitude that, together with sexual fantasies, heightens sexual drive.

In turn, women also share the imagination at play. The more sexual fantasies they have, the more sexual desire they experience. However, “women normally present more anxiety disorders than men” regarding transitory emotional stages such as anxiety, because anxiety strongly affects women’s sexual function.

This study highlights the importance of sexual fantasies in sexuality. In fact, sexual fantasies are used in sex therapy to diminish levels of anxiety of execution or of sexual activity, provided that there are no organic anomalies (lack of hormones, endocrine disorders, etc.).

The Importance of Education

These Spanish researchers point out that education on sexual stimulation and response as well as healthy attitudes towards sexuality is extremely important. In this way, sexual intercourse is more pleasurable and there is less probability of having sexual dysfunctions.

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Sexuality … Healthy & Vibrant Sexuality!

Healthy Sexual expression is a necessary part of being a fully-alive, fully-functioning human being.  Since each human person is a sexual being, every action that you perform is an expression of yourself as a sexual being.  When you recognize that sexuality is both normal and natural to life, it can become easier for you to explore the aspects of what comprises healthy sexuality.

For many people, looking honestly at sexual wants and needs is akin to doing something wrong and/or bad. For many, there are a lot of proscriptions and “shalt nots” where sex is concerned.  Focusing on improving your sexual health starts with positive ideas about what are normal and natural aspects of sexuality specific to you.

I hope this blog will provide you with ideas that allow you to be more comfortable with your sexuality and yourself as a sexual being.  I urge you add your “comment”s here — just click on the “comment” tag and type out your pertinent thoughts.  I invite you to add your ideas in ways that enhance the openness that is important to sexual expression.

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Sexuality Communication: Listening is Important for Sexuality!

Communication includes 2 very specific elements:  1) a participant who is speaking; 2) a participant who is listening. Often, the participants change-off these functions.  The contribution of BOTH of these is essential to effective communication!

The following are 3 Tips to Help You Be a More-effective Listener:                                                                                 1) Maintain a Loving, Caring Demeanor — let your partner KNOW by your body language that you care to hear his/her ideas and, as a result, to know him/her better;

2) Ask Questions for Clarification — this allows you to hear your partner’s true thoughts and feelings about the matter being communicated.

3) HEAR What Your Partner Is Saying — rather than thinking about what you want to reply/rebutt, focus on each word that your partner is sharing.  This conveys that you care.

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Relationship: Relationship Sexuality

Tips to Enhance Your Relationship Sexuality & Intimacy:
  1. Talk with one another about your relationship
  2. Talk with one another about your intimacy
  3. Talk with one another about your sexual relationship
  4. Give frequent hugs
  5. Touch whenever passing one another

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Sexuality: Relationship Sexuality

Tips to Enhance Your Relationship Sexuality & Intimacy:
Have you been feeling dissatisfied with your relationship?  Do you wish that you and your partner could go back to your “early days” … when you had just met and were dating?  Would you like to build the passion and intimacy with your partner once again?
Well, stop dreaming and BEGIN to add romance BACK INTO your interactions with your partner!  (Be sure to see our Romance Selections at the end of this post!)
Here are 5 Tips to Enhance Relationship Romance & Sexuality:
1.  TAKE TIME TO THINK ABOUT HIM/HER:  What does s/he like?  What are the ways …
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Sexuality: What to Do … When You Feel No Desire

Sexual desire is a magical, enjoyable and — sometimes — elusive experience.  If lately you have found yourself feeling as though your passion for sex — or your partner — is dimming, here are some VERY IMPORTANT things for you to begin to do … at once!

First of all, get a thorough check up from your physician.  Make certain that you are not experiencing some other health problem that is masquerading as low sexual desire.  Discuss with your doctor any concerns you may have.

Once your physical doctor gives you a clean bill of health, turn your attention to the emotional you — examine your emotions.  Have you been having emotional reactions and keeping them stuffed inside?  Doing so can be blunting your sexual desire.  It’s time to

  1. get clear with yourself about what you are feeling;
  2. put thought into the best way to communicate your emotions; and
  3. come clean and be honest with your partner.

Also, remember to pay careful attention to the mental you — your thoughts.  Have you — subtly — been telling yourself negative messages where your sexuality is concerned?  Remember “self-fulfilling prophecy”?  Be aware:  If you have been feeding yourself negative ideas about your sexual satisfaction, these ideas can be manifesting in low sexual desire.  In order to move OUT of the experience of low sexual desire, it is vitally important that you CHANGE these ideas to affirmative, positive ideas that encourage you to enjoy strong sexual desire once again!

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Sexuality: The Importance of Sexuality

Sexuality is one of the most important areas of Relationship Power. The partners’ Sexual expression allows the Relationship to deepen.  Sexual interaction allows strong bonds to form between the participants.

As important as healthy Sexuality is to the success of a Relationship, it is — significantly enough — the area in many Relationships that is least talked about.  Many adults have difficulty discussing Sexual ideas — they stumble over communication of likes and dislikes, not to mention areas of possible Sexual dysfunction.

This difficulty in discussing Sexuality often stems from childhood-to-adolescent programming.  Many who have difficulty with Sex Talk were raised in a family where there was no talk about Sexual topics.  By default, this left the child-turned-adult with the belief that it was avoided in their family home specifically because it is NOT all right …

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