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Multi-Leveled Sensual Communication Ignites Spiritual and Healthy Sexual Development, May 27, 2006
This review is from: The Love Diet: Expert Techniques for Sensual Pleasure and Mind-blowing Sex (Hardcover)
Although not my usual dieting read of exploring new ways of counting calories and minimizing portion size, therapist and adviser Mabel Iam's "The Love Diet: Expert Techniques for Sensual Pleasure and Mind-Blowing Sex" may just provide the recipe for success that most men and women crave in order to maximize the maintenance of optimal weight and growth through healthy self-esteem. Injecting the right macro-heart/soul-nutritional mix of sensuality, seduction and sexual joy will transport personal relationships to a more intimate and satisfying dimension.
In "French Women Don't Get Fat", author Mireille Guiligiano comments that the feeling of being in love acts as a natural slimming agent. Anne Barone in her Chic and Slim lifestyle series alludes to love being that magic potion that allows her to fit into that cigarette slim skirt at 55+ years of age. In a recent article appearing in National Geographic writer Lauren Slater tells us that the neurotransmitter dopamine lights up the caudate nucleus of the brain when we are in love enabling us to exhibit bouts of "intense energy, exhilaration, focused attention, and motivation to win rewards." From personal experience, I claim that the sensations associated with falling in love and maintaining a strong sensual connection draws each of us away from other physical addictions such as eating too much; what comes into play is akin to an addict replacing one addiction with another. While author Iam draws no conclusions regarding dieting and love, I think if you follow the advice detailed in her book, you may discover that killing two proverbial birds with one dopamine-laced stone will pull you ahead on many of life's most fulfilling physical and spiritual levels.
Don't get the wrong idea with regard to this book; this is no voyeur's brown paper-wrapped sex magazine in hardcover format. Look to other volumes of this genre to offer photos and leg A over leg B training. Iam aims to boost the stimulation quota of couples seeking a mature, long-term connection. She seriously addresses intimacy issues and provides a step-by-step deep relationship-nourishing format that begins with the art of flirtation and seduction and flourishes in a full-blown creativity while exploring the pleasures of the Kama sutra from the vantage point of the couple's balanced physical, mental and emotional energy. In addition to initiating and maintaining the purely sensual aspects of love-making (i.e. cultivating alluring and message-rich body language, understanding seduction archetypes, touching, kissing, hugging and massaging while exploring erogenous zones, measuring your partner's rhythm while regulating and controlling sexual energy through the art of oral sex, combining aphrodisiac food recipes to enhance and stimulate the body and the mind, stimulating the sense of smell through natural perfume and immersion baths, developing a sixth sense for predicting your partner's dreams and desires, learning to utilize color and flowers to incite desire and passion, designing a bedroom space that promotes a well-balanced sexual experience, stimulating fantasies through the art of quickie sex, reigniting waning sexual chemistry through self-esteem-building techniques, expressing desires freely and without guilt, jumpstarting desire with sensual words, phone or virtual sex and dressing/undressing for sexual success and ultimately achieving a limitless integration of man and woman with the divine power that sex can awaken and express in human beings through a practice of Kama sutra techniques) she devotes several key portions of her book to purely psychological concerns like controlling the relationship-sabotaging toxic emotions of fear, guilt, anxiety and jealousy, surviving a relationship breakup, and de-stressing your mate from the pressures of the outside world. She provides a series of self-esteem empowering exercises in the final two chapters that revolve around relaxation and solitude.
Iam's warm and intimate writing style not only makes the book a breeze to read and implement, it reflects her years as an experienced romantic therapist, tantric lecturer and workshop hostess. To add sincerity and a knowing complacency to her instructions, she interjects little poems dedicated to the reader along with bulleted suggestions and glossary type definitions that clearly outline a variety of succulent suggestions like 31 different kisses, 35 sensual words and a month's worth of sexual positions.
Bottom line? Paramount to achieving success with Iam's program is the overall desire to communicate with one's partner on a myriad of mental, physical and spiritual levels. While promoting openness and sensitivity to all participants, "The Love Diet" instructs without the sometimes hardcore and gritty descriptors utilized in other sexual how-tos. Iam's recipe structure suggests a dieting regime that she claims will not have you shedding pounds or dropping dress sizes. Despite her disclaimer, I whole-heartedly recommend this book to all who want to keep the relationship fires burning with the steady heat of adventure through understanding. I can almost guarantee that if the reader follows the book's directives, the excitement of tuning into a more harmonious and synchronous sexual frequency will exact weight loss as a wonderful side effect. If it doesn't,, your newfound experimentation will surely have you smiling from ear to ear.
Diana Faillace Von Behren
"reneofc"
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37 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
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How to Attain and Share Levels of Pleasure that Most People Don't Even Realize Exist, February 25, 2006
This review is from: The Love Diet: Expert Techniques for Sensual Pleasure and Mind-blowing Sex (Hardcover)
Mabel Iam does it again!
As someone who spent much of his career helping to fix unhappy people and unbalanced relationships, it has always been amazing how often the simplest suggestion, or most modest changes, can have a huge impact on people's lives.
If little things can have a big effect when people are in trouble, carrying out little things with full conscious awareness can have spectacular effects on the lives of people who want and need to deepen their relationships. And this book is full of wonderful little things that can make a very big difference.
Mabel recognizes and wants to share the importance of shared pleasure and guilt-free sensuality to enrich our lives. We need to have pleasure in our lives and the book is full of very practical advice for experiencing levels of pleasure that most people do not even know exists. And it does not take many hours and contorted postures to achieve them!
This is a supremely practical book that can help you open up to extraordinary sexual experiences that are not only physical, but emotional, energetic and spiritual. Share them with a partner and it could transform both of you.
Highly recommended.
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Entertaining Book, January 11, 2007
This review is from: The Love Diet: Expert Techniques for Sensual Pleasure and Mind-blowing Sex (Hardcover)
This book is not exactly what I thought it would be but it is great none the less. It is sort of a reminder for you and your partner for how to spice things up. I would recommend it to anyone looking to heat up their relationship.
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