Dr. Alexander Lowen believes that the key to personal change is contact with the body. This book rests on the idea that joy is a natural state, a positive feeling of the body, possible only through surrender to the body by listening to its wisdom and what it communicates. The book reviews the essentials of bioenergetic therapy in the light of other therapeutic approaches, and teaches how to surrender to joy by using bioenergetic principles. It discusses aggression, disappointment, sexual abuse, the fear of dying and issues of spirituality as it attemps to make joy a more common experience.
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Lowen's latest work does what they all do -- it gets us back in touch with our genuine, inner selves by making the emotional expression of oneself through the body the vehicle for authentic self-expression and spontaneity. It liberated me to feel more spontaneously without self-judgment and self-criticism, and to express my feelings without fear of judgment by others. If you're having trouble feeling or being fully conscious of yourself and your feelings, read Lowen's books and give some thought to Bioenergetic psychotherapy -- both will help tremendously.
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Alexander Lowen's life's work was not just therapy but helping people restore joy in living. All his books are well written, but some include concepts from psychoanalytic roots that confuse slightly a reader untrained in analysis. This book,however, was written for the general but sincere and curious reader. Not that Lowen watered down his ideas any, but they are described in everyday terms. However,his ideas are not everyday ideas anymore. The mainstream culture has alienated most of us from our bodies and from life which springs from the body.
Though at one time the ideas and point of view in this book might have been partly transmitted by folk wisdom, that wisdom has been forgotten or unfairly stigmatized. This is truly a much needed explanation of how a good person can connect to good feelings.
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bioenergetic stool, pulsatory activity, bioenergetic analysis, respiratory wave, crying deeply, orgasm reflex, kicking exercise, deep crying, chronic muscular tensions, energetic charge, ego values, grounding exercise, positive excitement, genital apparatus, murderous anger Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Macmillan Publishing Company, Garden of Eden, The Denial of the True Self, Sleeping Beauty, The Language of the Body, Vibrant Health New!
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- Language of the Body by Alexander Lowen on page 13, page 17, and page 182
- Character Analysis by Wilhelm Reich on page 170, and page 190
- Sadhana, The Realization of Life (Dodo Press) by Rabindranath Tagore on page 9
- Collected Papers: v. 1 (International Psycho-Analysis Library) by Sigmund Freud on page 151
- The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James on page 63
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- Bending Bodies: Mounding Masculinities (NSU (Nordic Summer University)) by Sren Erv on page 43, and page 45
- Self Sexual Healing: Finding Pleasure Within by Jo-Anne Baker in Back Matter
- Choosing Health: Dr. Force's Functional Selfcare Workbook by Mark Force in Back Matter
- Sex and Self-Respect: The Quest for Personal Fulfillment by Philip M. Helfaer in Back Matter
- Your Guide to Alternative Medicine: Understanding, Locating, and Selecting Holistic Treatments and Practitioners by Larry P. Credit in Back Matter
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