Sense Relaxation: Below Your Mind [Paperback]

Gunther Bernard (Author)

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• Paperback
• Publisher: Collier Books (1969)
• ASIN: B000VLH7Q8
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,070,677 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Sensory Awakening, December 15, 2008

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M. Lee (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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How does one remember the language of touch and feelings? How can consciousness be expanded without drugs? Or getting back in touch with the deep reality of physical, living being? Sense Relaxation calls itself a book of experiments in being alive.

The book uses sensory awakening method to help bring you back to your senses: to quiet excessive thoughts, to release chronic tension, to enhance directory sensory-reality in the here and now. This process can show you how to allow greater sensitivity, feeling and awareness: aid you in letting yourself be more - your entire organism - open to the potentialities and possibility with out/ in you.

The author knows his subject matter well having pioneered the exploration and development of full human potential at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. In this stunning black-and-white pictorial form, Bernard Gunther gives us explicit directions and suggestions for turning your life into an entirely new sense of being alive. The results are obvious - you get back in touch with being alive. This book has numerous exercises, including tapping, slapping, shaking, lifting and stretching, for individuals, couples, and groups.

We are born sensitive, are desensitized and can resensitize. It is possible to focus attention on sensory experience, within-without excessive strain. We are all capable of letting go of filtering and habitual interferences; with making contact with subtle live movement and pleasure.

I would recommend this book to people who no longer feel that they are in touch with their bodies, and want to live life fully. Get out of your mind. Back into your body. Breathe. Live.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gunther Hero Sandwiches, February 22, 2010

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Phil Lauro Photography "magazine founder and ... (Durango, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sense Relaxation: Below Your Mind (Paperback)

I was just reading about Paul Fusco and his brilliant photojournalistic work starting with" Look Magazine," then moving on to freelance-land after "Look's" demise, and his amazing work on the victims of Chernobyl's nuclear meltdown. It then mentioned that he lived in Mill Valley , CA., which is across the Golden Gate bridge from San Francisco in the 60's. I grew up nearby in San Anselmo (both in Marin County), in the late 60's-70's, and wondered why I hadn't heard of him? But once the title "Sense Relaxation:Below Your Mind" popped up and I saw the cover, It was WOW, I used to have this book.(Found among my older brother's college books).
I was fortunate to attend an alternative (hippie) high school called School Within A School (SWAS) in San Anselmo (from 1970-1974). We used that book to play bizarre, wild, pre-new age, groovy hippie games, including the infamous "Gunther Hero Sandwich" named after the collaborating writer, Gunther Bernard. I had always wondered where that name came from? Everyone was supposed to lie on the floor together closely, spooning style with their eyes closed, and then tactically feel with your hands (paws), the grooviness and inner-selves of the person next to you before everyone rolled over a couple of people and repeated the exercise, hence the Gunther Hero sandwich. However my stoner buddy Kenny and I had ulterior motives though, we would peek and lurk, and get near the schools most beautiful, braless, tie-dye dress wearing hippie chicks, and fondling and feeling them up. (Molesting?) Amazingly they didn't mind! We were younger than them and also had hair past are shoulders and were stoned and grooving like everyone else. Such mammaries, I mean memories this brings up. There were many other 'exercises' in the book to experience the inner peace of our classmates! Group oil massages, Getting tossed in the air in giant parachutes'. I don't remember a giant earth ball or 'orb' though? It was quite the 'guidebook' to exploring life and fellow 'Tribe Members" in ways never thought of before, and certainly not experienced at the "Normal" High School located next door. A great book to help remember those hip days in one of the best places to ever grow up in, Marin County, CA.
-Phil Lauro, Durango, CO