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		<title>If only this could be taken care of&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.tantraheart.com/2010/09/if-only-this-could-be-taken-care-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each of us has at least one of these&#8230; &#8220;If only&#8230;&#8221; For you, right where you are, being you. &#8220;If only&#8230;&#8221; Name your&#8230; &#8220;If only this could be taken care of...&#8221; Go for a deep one. What really touches you. What you may seldom say out loud. Be brave, write it down&#8230;&#8221;If only ______________________.&#8221; Does ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Each of us has at least one of these&#8230; &#8220;<em><strong>If only</strong>&#8230;</em>&#8221;</p>
<p>For you, right where you are, being you. &#8220;<strong><em>If only</em></strong>&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Name your&#8230; &#8220;<strong><em>If only this could be taken care of.</em></strong>..&#8221; Go for a deep one. What really touches you. What you may seldom say out loud.</p>
<p>Be brave, write it down&#8230;&#8221;<strong><em>If only</em></strong> ______________________.&#8221; Does this feel more real and emotional by writing it out. Tantra Heart includes the practice of softening to being vulnerable.</p>
<p>Now, imagine your &#8220;<strong><em>if only</em></strong>&#8221; actually taken care of. Where do you picture yourself being with this solved? How do things feel?</p>
<p>Are you ready to create a leap from ~ &#8220;<strong><em>if only this could be taken care of</em></strong>&#8221; &#8230;to &#8230; &#8220;<strong><em>wow, look at this now</em></strong>??&#8221;<br />
<span class="frame alignleft"><img src="http://www.tantraheart.com/love/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Releasing-the-old.jpg" /></span></p>
<p>The methods &amp; techniques of Tantra Heart give you power to <strong><em>transform whatever shows up now</em></strong>.</p>
<p>You learn<br />
1. A whole new approach to navigating life &amp; problems<br />
2. How to use heart-sex energy for accelerating change<br />
3. Advantages of having an  affordable personal coach to support your most important changes<br />
4. Key Tantra techniques that make the most difference<br />
5. To handle emotions for creating success<br />
6. Much more&#8230;</p>
<p>Tantra Heart can be your discovery method to realize important benefits.<br />
<a href="http://www.tantraheart.com/programs/personal-coach/">Coach</a><br />
<a href="http://www.tantraheart.com/programs/workshops/">Workshops</a><br />
<a href="http://www.tantraheart.com/programs/personal-study-course/">Personal Empowerment Home Study Course</a></p>
<p>With great love for you.<br />
The flowering of your ecstatic life is your birthright.</p>
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		<title>Assure your joy excitement love</title>
		<link>http://www.tantraheart.com/2010/08/assure-your-joy-excitement-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tantra Heart 1 course &#8220;Learn to Live in Joy, Excitement and Love&#8221; gives you a clear path to live how you really want to. You learn Babaji Cobra Breath An energy sequence for a loving new world Freedom for your mind Flowing emotional clarity Much more&#8230; You can experientially learn this in a way ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Tantra Heart 1 course &#8220;<em><strong>Learn to Live in Joy, Excitement and Love</strong></em>&#8221; gives you a clear path to live how you really want to.</p>
<p>You learn</p>
<ul>
<li>Babaji Cobra Breath</li>
<li>An energy sequence for a loving new world</li>
<li>Freedom for your mind</li>
<li>Flowing emotional clarity</li>
<li>Much more&#8230;</li>
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<p>You can experientially learn this in a way exactly right for you<br />
By <a href="http://www.tantraheart.com/programs/personal-coach/">coaching </a>with us using phone or skype<br />
In our home studio <a href="http://www.tantraheart.com/retreats_flyers/Sept%202010%20L1%20flyer.pdf">September 17-19</a><br />
In Chicago <a href="http://www.tantraheart.com/love/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Chicago-Flyer_October-2010.pdf">October 8-10</a></p>
<p>Interested? Ready?<br />
Inspire a new way of being for yourself, a relationship, life purpose, your health, and deeply meaningful work.</p>
<p>Email or call us to register.<br />
<span class="frame alignleft"><img src="http://www.tantraheart.com/love/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Summer-glory-sharing.jpg" /></span></p>
<p>With great love for you.</p>
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		<title>Touch me. What does my body want?</title>
		<link>http://www.tantraheart.com/2010/08/101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picture this. You are at a party with friends. Or with a lover in the kitchen. Or resting on the sofa with (envision someone). The time is any time, actually most of the time, when there is something you want. The body knows what is missing. You are a woman yearning for intimacy. You are ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Picture this. You are at a party with friends. Or with a lover in the kitchen. Or resting on the sofa with (envision someone).</p>
<p>The time is any time, actually most of the time, when there is something you want. The body knows what is missing.</p>
<p>You are a woman yearning for intimacy. You are a man sensing the body alive.</p>
<p>A challenge in this buttoned-up society is finding a way to frequently <em>touch </em>or <em>be touched </em>so your whole being shimmers.</p>
<p>Now, you are unique. Your desire may be a tender slow <em>touch </em>that brings tears to your eyes. Or a <em>touch </em>with such searing excitement that lightning fills the room. Or the surprise of connecting-hearts <em>touch </em>that you hope lasts forever. Each is a <em>touch </em>never to be forgotten.</p>
<p>What <em>touch </em>do you want with your whole life, your whole body? Occurring frequently, over and over again. Exquisite <em>touch </em>as common as breathing and smiling.</p>
<p>You can learn to change the habit of avoiding <em>touch</em>. You have the power to choose to create a new world for yourself of loving <em>touch</em>. This is up to you. Consistently wonderful <em>touch </em>is yours when you choose to learn its access secret.</p>
<span class="frame alignleft"><img src="http://www.tantraheart.com/love/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/sensuous-touch-e1281970544560.jpg" /></span>
<p>To move from <em>touch</em>-missing  to <em>touch</em>-wonderful ~<br />
• as an experiment today, reduce by 20% your shyness to sharing <em>touch </em>with others&#8230;observe what feelings arise&#8230;<br />
• <em>touch </em>at least 2 people today in a graceful subtle way that pleases them in a quiet way&#8230;go out of your way to do this&#8230;<br />
• find true magnificence in one person today, then share a moment of eyes meeting with loving <em>touch</em><br />
• today invite 1 person to <em>touch </em>you in the way that feels special for you&#8230;guide the touch to your favorite feeling, and be, at least a little bit, bold.</p>
<p>Notice your discoveries when increasing <em>touch</em>. What shifts occur in your body and spirit?</p>
<p>Additional support to you for living fulfilled, actually ecstatic:<br />
•    Choose to have a personal Tantra Heart <a href="http://www.tantraheart.com/programs/personal-coach/">coach</a><br />
•    Participate in a Tantra Heart <a href="http://www.tantraheart.com/programs/workshops/">workshop</a><br />
•    Consider becoming a Tantra <a href="http://www.tantraheart.com/programs/become-a-teachercoach/">teacher/coach</a><br />
•    Enjoy a <a href="http://www.tantraheart.com/programs/free-introduction/">free conversation</a> with us<br />
•    Invite us to teach<a href="http://www.tantraheart.com/programs/in-your-city/"> in your city</a></p>
<p>You definitely can learn to discover passionate spirit, luminous sex, for your loving new world.</p>
<p>With great love for you. The flowering of your ecstatic life is so important.</p>
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		<title>Secrets of Kaizen Sensuality</title>
		<link>http://www.tantraheart.com/2010/07/secrets-of-kaizen-sensuality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine your sensual life continuously improving, day after day, week after week, year after year. Surprises unfolding continuously. Kaizen sensuality is the practice of continuous improvement into a natural blossoming of your pleasure body. Both the quality and methods of your sensual/sexual life can continuously expand through your ongoing commitment to discover new ways to make life richer ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imagine your sensual life continuously improving, day after day, week after week, year after year. Surprises unfolding continuously. <strong><em>Kaizen sensuality is the practice of continuous improvement into a natural blossoming of your pleasure body.</em></strong><em> </em> Both the quality and methods of your sensual/sexual life can continuously expand through your ongoing commitment to discover new ways to make life richer and more fulfilling.</p>
<p>Kaizen was created in Japan following World War II. The word Kaizen means &#8220;continuous improvement&#8221;. It comes from the <strong><em>Japanese words </em></strong><strong><em>改</em></strong><strong><em> (&#8220;kai&#8221;) which means &#8220;change&#8221; and </em></strong><strong><em>善</em></strong><strong><em> (&#8220;zen&#8221;) which means &#8220;good&#8221;</em></strong><em>.</em></p>
<p>From our experience, the <em><strong>first secret of kaizen sexuality is to understand its purpose while making a commitment</strong></em> <strong>to yourself</strong> (and, when you choose, with a partner) to practice this continual improvement as an <strong>experiment for a least 90 days</strong>. Our adventure into this began as an experiment, which then, day by day, grew to be our continuous daily practice for over 12 years now. No end in sight.</p>
<p><em><strong>The second secret is to be experiential and experimental in your approach.</strong></em> When choosing each sensual experience, practice trust of your self ~ be accepting of your senses, emotions, ideas and visions. It takes a lot of practice to trust, rather than react against.</p>
<p>Also, as an experimenter, learn to accept that some choices of sensual improvement will &#8221;pay off&#8221;, others will &#8221;go bland&#8221;, and some will &#8221;fizzle/crash&#8221;. <strong>The wide variety of discoveries, up &amp; down, is a natural part of kaizen practice ~ &#8220;change for the good.&#8221;</strong> Each is valuable learning in your continuous expansion of sex and spirit.</p>
<p><strong><em>The third secret  is that kaizen sex is based on making little changes on a regular basis.</em></strong> In most of your experiments, let go of looking for (expecting) major changes. The key is to approach your improvement with a positive attitude, a creating spirit, and a deep honoring of breakthroughs as well as confusions. You will be gradually releasing that which doesn&#8217;t serve you.</p>
<p>In your practice of kaizen sexuality, choosing to have us as your <em><strong>coach</strong></em><strong> &amp; teacher</strong><em><strong> </strong></em><strong>can accelerate your discoveries for living ecstatically. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Call</strong> <strong>or email us anytime</strong>.</p>
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		<title>Learning sexspirit flow ~ art &amp; love</title>
		<link>http://www.tantraheart.com/2010/07/learning-sexspirit-flow-art-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An artist expresses the ordinary in a fresh way. A new vision. Reality transformed. Tantra Heart guides you to be an artist of amazing new sex and spirit.  Dissolve the old patterns. See frustrations recede. Learn to flow heart-sex-consciousness to playful freedom &#8230; profound excitement &#8230; deep meaning.   This summer create a beautiful new way of being. Inspire yourself (and relationships). Register for  Art of ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_67" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 243px"><a href="http://www.tantraheart.com/love/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Sheaths-of-energy.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-67" title="Sheaths of energy" src="http://www.tantraheart.com/love/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Sheaths-of-energy-233x300.jpg" alt="intimacy of energy" width="233" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Art of Ecstatic Energy</p></div>
<p>An artist expresses the ordinary in a fresh way. A new vision. Reality transformed. <strong>Tantra Heart guides you to be an artist of amazing new sex and spirit.</strong> </p>
<p>Dissolve the old patterns. See frustrations recede. Learn to flow heart-sex-consciousness to <strong>playful freedom &#8230; profound excitement &#8230; deep meaning.</strong>  </p>
<p>This summer create a beautiful new way of being. Inspire yourself (and relationships). Register for  <em><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103527627771&amp;s=0&amp;e=001HN3P4N2PZs95fpfTri5o0B6koSI4NModrmVUvCGIZQrwof2pCb2w5T6XrxmB_fB-Iq1nLMqFIAjCLhkkvwK-xGX3XEyPEIjendg4SN0jtFWDrWvsMSKjOhzUrenbXHaScy63QBjnzTWmp3BKOlpdsYdFSRa_po5ZAANHi2RAM7E7u9vu5oMk8vi8QvZQZNCCyBwZdQwGd62YtXpPWm0LcoefQzISeryy" target="_blank"><strong>Art of the Sexual Heart</strong></a></em> presented in our home studio Saturday &amp; Sunday, <strong>July 31-August 1</strong>.  This experiential course, offered first in partnership with Cathy Rowan in London, gives you <strong>timeless skills to be sensuously artistic</strong> ~ creating a loving new world. </p>
<p>These skills of creative love and spirit can also be learned through a <strong>series of 3 coaching sessions with us by phone or skype</strong>. To register for this course or to begin the coaching series, call 513-931-3030 or email <a href="mailto:aa@fuse.net" target="_blank">aa@fuse.net</a>. </p>
<p>Four places for participants are available for <em><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103527627771&amp;s=0&amp;e=001HN3P4N2PZs95fpfTri5o0B6koSI4NModrmVUvCGIZQrwof2pCb2w5T6XrxmB_fB-Iq1nLMqFIAjCLhkkvwK-xGX3XEyPEIje1_ZOpbyaVb75OOqhv6zVONYwDbPbQAqSYUghotNY9OViUiiPYusUFj2B08gxULWpu6xoaIG7FHwGGfW8ZmI3axjX8WHR7LpO" target="_blank"><strong>Awaken the Eternal Lover, Tantra Heart 3 </strong></a></em>at Hope Springs Retreat Center, August 22-29. This is <strong><em>Total Immersion</em></strong><em> </em>into Babaji Cobra Breath 3, plus two of the most accelerated rituals for ecstatic transformation, <strong><em>Tibetan Rebirthing</em></strong> and <em><strong>Tantra Heart Maithuna</strong></em>. Let us know when you are interested. </p>
<p><strong>To be an explorer</strong> is crucial for being an artist. What discoveries would you love to bring in <strong>your sexual life, relationship success and spiritual awakening?</strong></p>
<p><strong>To be an explorer</strong> is an important quality for being an artist. <strong>What discoveries</strong> would you love to bring into your sexual life, relationship success and spiritual awakening?</p>
<p><strong>Contact us to take part in a Tantra Heart course or to arrange coaching by phone. Make discoveries that awaken your ecstatic life as a gift for yourself.</strong></p>
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		<title>BeLoved ** Naturally Loved</title>
		<link>http://www.tantraheart.com/2010/06/beloved-naturally-loved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard the expression, &#8220;Be the Lover, Be the Beloved, Be Love&#8221;? Each stimulates a different perspective or role with love. Let&#8217;s explore the middle one. What is the feeling when you are the Beloved? When you truly are loved?  By one person? By a group? By everyone?  Is Being Loved something you are waiting for? Someday it may rise out of the ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you heard the expression, &#8220;Be the Lover, Be the Beloved, Be Love&#8221;? Each stimulates a different perspective or role with love. Let&#8217;s explore the middle one. <strong>What is the feeling when you are the Beloved?</strong> When you truly are loved? </p>
<p>By one person? By a group? By everyone? </p>
<p>Is <em>Being Loved</em> something you are waiting for? Someday it may rise out of the mist? Or have you resigned to never experiencing it? Or do you envision &#8220;I the Beloved&#8221; as a result of your good actions and solicitous attention to others? <strong><span class="pullquote_right"><em><strong>Being Loved ~ </strong></em><strong>the </strong><em><strong>surprise fruit</strong></em><strong> within your personal transformation</strong></span><strong>Or is </strong><em><strong>Being Loved </strong></em><strong>the </strong><em><strong>surprise fruit</strong></em><strong> within your personal transformation?</strong></strong><strong> </strong>Perhaps &#8220;You the Beloved&#8221; has always been, and now you are learning to realize it in your true nature. </p>
<p>Each person is <strong>honored exactly as she is</strong> within our Tantra Heart approach. Responding to the questions above, your &#8220;Yes&#8221; choice is a valuable place to <strong>begin your exploration</strong>. There are no right answers. The practice is to accept what is &amp; grow interested in the possibilities of &#8220;who you are&#8221; from &#8220;where you are&#8221;. </p>
<p>4 Tantra Heart approaches to <em><strong>Being the Beloved</strong></em>:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Find</strong>, over and over, the Beloved in yourself &#8230;. do this for yourself. When you find the beloved in you, others do too.</li>
<li><strong>Practice receiving subtle love</strong> from whomever and wherever it appears. Be alert for the unspoken love coming your way &amp; breathe it in. Realize that to fully open for receiving love takes lots of practice.</li>
<li><strong>Practice re-naming</strong> the many little and big good things that show up in your life as ~ <em>love for the Beloved</em> (who is you).</li>
<li><strong>Say out loud the word </strong><em><strong>Beloved</strong></em> when you address another, perhaps quite a few others. Witness how this awakens your personal experience of Being the Beloved.<strong> </strong></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>When born, you were the Beloved. </strong>Everyone knows it. So, now? As an experiment, <em><strong>Be the Beloved</strong></em> for at least 20% of each day. Play the role. Then, after a month, raise your view to at least 25%. This and more is your natural birthright. </p>
<p>Wear the cloak of your divine nature. When times are challenging, <em><strong>draw on your robe as the Beloved and wear it.</strong></em></p>
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		<title>Discoveries For Sensual Spiritual Success</title>
		<link>http://www.tantraheart.com/2010/05/discoveries-for-sensual-spiritual-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 10:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Optimizing sensuality-sexuality-spirituality requires a discovery approach. Release inclinations to fix or do therapy. Be bold. Be an explorer. An experimenter. In your discovery approach, look for the treasures, no matter you are facing. Whatever way you see your body now, accept what is and the feelings that arise. Practice loving yourself no matter what. To ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Optimizing sensuality-sexuality-spirituality requires a discovery approach. Release inclinations to fix or do therapy. Be bold. Be an explorer. An experimenter. In your discovery approach, look for the treasures, no matter you are facing.</p>
<p>Whatever way you see your body now, accept what is and the feelings that arise.  Practice loving yourself no matter what. To be in agreement with what is, to love presence, is the basis of our Tantra Heart discovery approach. <span class="pullquote_right">You can awaken something sensually inspiring and fresh when you are willing to accept what is without judgment or criticism.</span></p>
<p>To be intimately with your body, sensuality and arousal (alone or and connecting with another) can stir up critical judgements about yourself. Shifting to the discovery approach takes practice to choose something other than judgement and expectation. What truly works is the practice of engaging curiosity.</p>
<p>&#8220;When I touch or am touched here in this particular way, I wonder what shows up?&#8221; What thought, emotion, sensation or picture arrives? I&#8217;m curious. Interested. Doing this encourages spirituality to open. Being in the freshness of each experience, being present in the body, opens the liklihood of surprise, mystery, moving beyond the &#8220;old box&#8221; of time-space-expectations. Wow&#8230;you are in a loving new world.</p>
<p>A profound discovery is ~ your future unfolds from the present, not from the past. This practice shatters the predominant belief that your past experiences determine your present/future experiences. To let go of being determined by your past is contrary to most of western psychology and new age thinking. From our experience, past does not predict future, unless you choose it to be, or are conditioned to have that way.</p>
<p>The great power is yours when you use a discovery approach to fully awaken your sensual-sexual-relationship-spiritual life. When is this yours? This moment. Each moment.</p>
<p>Contact us as a gift for yourself and through you for all the people you care about.<br />
With great love for you,<br />
Richard &amp; Antoinette</p>
<h2>Announcements</h2>
<p>One place for a woman is available for Tantra Heart Level 2 retreat. &#8220;Discover the Lover Within&#8221; Tantra Heart 2 Total Immersion retreat, June 2-6, at Hope Springs Retreat Center in Cincinnati has an opening for a woman. Click here for details about the life-enhancing benefits to be realized in this exciting Tantra workshop. Talk with us about special savings.</p>
<p>New teachers, inspired by Tantra Heart, are emerging in Chicago, Stockton, Memphis, Rocky Mountains, Augusta, Sydney &amp; other cities. Contact us when you feel the first &#8220;whispers of a calling&#8221; to be a teacher/coach of heart-sex-consciousness awakening. The Tantra Heart Teacher Empowerment Academy is available to support your personal growth and your sharing of love service as a teacher.</p>
<p>Important elements of our Tantra Heart practice include:</p>
<ul>
<li>make good things happen,</li>
<li> live adventurously,</li>
<li> honor the feminine,</li>
<li> choose music to inspire.</li>
</ul>
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		<title>Love really can fill your life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 23:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if you had the warmth of love through each day? How interested are you? Does it seem impossible? Or, I&#8217;m almost there? Or, I&#8217;m ready to create this? What appears with love &#8220;filling your life&#8221;? Your name feels different. It is special on your lips &#38; when others say it. You kiss &#38; are ...]]></description>
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<p>What if you had the warmth of love through each day? How interested are you? Does it seem impossible? Or, I&#8217;m almost there? Or, I&#8217;m ready to create this?</p>
<p>What appears with love &#8220;filling your life&#8221;?</p>
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<li> Your name feels different. It is special on your lips &amp; when others say it.</li>
<li>You kiss &amp; are kissed. By family, friends, even in emails wonderful xoxoxoxox&#8217;s or the sensuous mmwwaahh.</li>
<li> With love through the day, your eyelashes go up &amp; down in a special way. Little stars come out of you.</li>
</ul>
<p>Even when hidden, love remains your birthright&#8230;your nature. Plus, so much better than its alternatives.</p>
<p>A body chemical called oxytocin, is ready now inside to be released, flooding your life with love. While learning to increase intimacy &amp; bonding in your life, this love hormone leaps into action.</p>
<p>Your eyes are windows capable of connecting with people, all beings and situations with excited, in the body, love.</p>
<p>To fill your life with love is part of a growth cycle. You are being called now to be a true love artist, with a powerful set of interesting new skills. Learning love that fills life is guaranteed to be wonderful for you.</p>
<p>Here are opportunities to accelerate learning:</p>
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<li>Choose one of us as your coach. Easy to do by phone, Skype or in person. 15  minutes free&#8230;when you want.  Or, 90 minutes in-depth sessions $80&#8230; to fit your schedule &amp; budget. Gift yourself the pathway guide to expand love.</li>
<li>Or, participate in our workshop &#8220;Learn to Live in Joy, Excitement &amp; Love&#8221; February 26-28. Additional retreats are available throughout 2010.</li>
</ul>
<p>You deserve to discover the reality of love filling life ~ in your  relationships, work, life purpose, healthy body, sex, spirit &amp; fun.</p>
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		<title>How to banish stress from the mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 23:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tantra is a science of transformation. For the mind, as well as the body, emotions, relationship and more, change is always available. From our experience, mind is continually inter-relating with heart &#38; sex. Many people live daily with stressed sexuality, troubled relationship, and a mind ~~~ aaauuuggghhh ~~~ that seems to go crazy. Turbulence for ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="frame alignleft"><img src="http://www.tantraheart.com/love/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/126.jpg" /></span>Tantra is a science of transformation. For the mind, as well as the body, emotions, relationship and more, change is always available. <span class="pullquote_right">Turbulence for many is the daily default setting.</span>From our experience, mind is continually inter-relating with heart &amp; sex. Many people live daily with stressed sexuality, troubled relationship, and a mind ~~~ aaauuuggghhh ~~~ that seems to go crazy. Turbulence for many is the daily default setting. The mind &#8220;whacking out.&#8221; Over-re-acting. See the photo above for a metaphor of high stress (well, the picture above ours).</p>
<p>Your personal experience is probably a mixture of~ clarity of mind and distressed mind. As you know they feel quite differently in life. What to do with the churning mind? Do you want to learn to be skillful in navigating yourself from stressed mind to a mind that is peaceful &amp; clear?</p>
<p>Learn to banish stress in your mind every time by slipping into it &amp; through it.</p>
<p>Here is the practice. Observe the mind in stress.. Be interested in it. This ability to choose interest in stress takes practice &#8230; lots of practice.. Rather than being caught by or re-acting off the stress &#8230; choose to be interested in it. <span class="pullquote_left">Be curious about the mind, even when it stresses.</span>
<p>Another practice is to breathe when stress fills your mind. Breathe in &amp; from the belly. Inhale, belly expands. Exhale, belly recedes. Build the habit of observing belly breathing when the mind is &#8220;eating away&#8221; with worry or &#8220;not enoughness.&#8221;</p>
<p>Breath is a jewel in the body. Breath is presence. Breath opens a feeling of the eternal. Full awareness of breath is stress freeing every time.<br />
Mind turmoil melts with &#8220;interest in&#8221; &amp; belly breathing. You can learn to  banish stress by spinning it into a clear deep feeling of well being. Transform stress into a new daily practice.</p>
<p>Our commitment to you is ~ learn to live in joy, excitement &amp; love&#8230;welcoming what life brings. No matter what. This is your birthright. You can learn the art of living stress free. For support in your transformative journey, call or email us anytime.</p>
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		<title>Find What Undermines Joyful Ecstasy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 15:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[e yearn for joy. The natural, flowing, bubbling feeling of joyful contentment is wonderful. The body floats in goodness. Ecstasy is excitement that pops us out of the ordinary. The world buzzes with new energy. Possibilities dreamed about ~ leap into being in the body. From our experience the primary inhibitor is &#8220;not enough&#8221;. The ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span class="dropcap2">W</span>e yearn for joy.</strong> The natural, flowing, bubbling feeling of joyful contentment is wonderful. The body floats in goodness. Ecstasy is excitement that pops us out of the ordinary. The world buzzes with new energy. Possibilities dreamed about ~ leap into being in the body.</p>
<span class="pullquote_right">To what level is Joyful Ecstasy yours?  What holds the feeling back? What undermines a continual streaming of joy &amp; ecstasy in your body,  relationships &amp; daily life?</span>
<p>From our experience the primary inhibitor is &#8220;not enough&#8221;. The persistent feeling, usually unacknowledged, that &#8220;I am not enough.&#8221; Not good enough, not fast enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough, not lovable enough, not disciplined enough. This is a long list. Long lasting too.</p>
<p>Shame is the deep emotional experience that  ~ &#8220;I am uniquely flawed, quite insufficient.&#8221; It is a deep rooted belief about self.</p>
<p>The feeling of shame makes it difficult to experience joy or feel ecstatic. &#8220;Not enoughness&#8221; masks natural fascination. To be vibrantly alive feels foreign when clouded by shame.</p>
<p>Shame is tricky. It cannot simply be banned, rooted out or killed off because ~ The paradox ~ you must fully believe that you are not enough (uniquely flawed) in order to put in the big effort to kill it off&#8230; which&#8230; in the belief of &#8220;not enough&#8221; operating&#8230; holds the shame in place.</p>
<p>The shift to new freedom from shame comes through the practice of &#8220;interest&#8221;.  <span class="pullquote_left">As much as possible, find ways to be curious about your &#8220;not enoughness&#8221;. </span>Experiment with new ways to see it, feel it, play with it, thereby opening shame to new possibilities. Make friends with it.</p>
<p>Learn to welcome in joy &amp; excitement right with your feeling of &#8220;not enough&#8221;. This practice of &#8220;interest&#8221; includes choices of acceptance, non-judgement &amp; curious exploration. To do this skillfully is a core learning practice of Tantra Heart.</p>
<p>The experience of shame actually becomes interesting. It&#8217;s exciting to see what shows up. Your life transforms.</p>
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