Exploring Intimacy: Cultivating Healthy Relationships through Insight and Intuition - Hardcover

Robins, Suzann Panek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442200901 ISBN 13: 9781442200906

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

Building off the idea that when we are happier, we tend to be healthier, Robins explains the phenomenon of how our intuitive knowing fosters healthy relationships that contribute to our physical, mental, and emotional health. Readers learn to utilize a variety of pathways that will change their responses to others and will produce lasting, more rewarding, and closer relationships in all areas of their lives. This book is designed to aid readers in looking inward and experiencing how their intuitive sixth sense informs their ability to be intimate without the negative triggers of past experiences. Through a considered and thoughtful approach, Robins offers insight into cultivating a truly integrated self so that one may lead a more fulfilling and healthful life.

About this title

From the Author:

Writing this book was a culmination of twenty years of studying and teaching yoga and later tai chi in addition to a variety of social science classes, including psychology, sociology and women's studies. I found myself telling one group of students the same thing I was telling the other group, and discovered each one was interested in what the other was learning. This led to the idea that I should combine the information from Western Psychology with Eastern Philosophy. I began the research and found very few people had attempted this, and those who did were NOT very good writers!
It was a labor of love to bring ideas from many different authors together. I began with Freud and his student, Carl Jung's thoughts on conscious awareness and then worked through others who commented in the 50s, 60s and 70s. The 80s and 90s brought many new insights into the neurological aspects of consciousness studies and I was able to summarize those as well. It took me nearly three years of doing little else to complete this project.
I knew it would be difficult for me to sit still and do all of this research and writing. Thanks to the miracle of a lap top, I wrote while traveling both in Europe and across the United States. The entire book was written on buses and trains, planes, boats, ferries and cars. I don't recommend this as the best way, but it worked! I hope you enjoy the fruit of my labors.

From the Back Cover:

Suzann Panek Robins maintains that we must truly love our self before we can offer love to another. She takes us through the necessary steps to truly become an Integrated Self, able to generate self love. Thus we are able to increase our capacity for creating loving relationships. She provides an overview of the history of healing from a scientific, spiritual and psychological perspective that carries the reader along on this fascinating journey to wholeness. Robins writes in a friendly style that is pleasure to read.
Gloria Arenson, author of Five Simple Steps to Emotional Healing

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1442200901
• ISBN 13: 9781442200906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264