The Mindful Path to Intimacy

Introduction

1. Paying Mindful Attention: The Most Basic Form of Love

2. Turning Toward Vulnerability: Strength in Openheartedness

II. Walking the Intimate Path

3. Being and Seeking a Safe Harbor: The Attachment Teeter-Totter

4. Acting Intentionally: Everything You Do Matters

5. Listening Deeply: May I Only Seek to Understand

6. Waking Up to Interconnectedness: The Illusion of Separateness

7. Loving Your Partner Skillfully: May You Know That I Adore You

8. The Red Thread: Sex and the Path of Physical Intimacy

III. Overcoming Obstacles on the Path

9. Burning Intimacy Bridges: Practicing with Intense Emotions

10. Awakening to Relationship Patterns: The Practice of Co-Creation

11. Encountering the Arising of Conflict: Only by Love Alone

12. Repairing Ruptures: To Mend What Has Been Broken

13. Facing Impermanence: Intimacy with Aging, Illness, and Death

14. Walking the Intimate Path: The Whole World Is Medicine

Index

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