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Giving and Receiving

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

How to relate with another human being optimally

 

Cause and effect are optimal roles to take to maximize connection and pleasure with another human being. If we can give and receive well, then we exist, not only in harmony with others, but also in love, cooperation and ultimately union with them.   

giving-and-receiving To give we become upright, strong and loving. We release our attention on ourselves and attain a great sense of freedom and release. We hold our partner in our mind and our hands deriving deep satisfaction in their joy and pleasure.

To receive we must surrender, open and be vulnerable. We expose ourselves first to ourselves then to another. The heart releases and we are held. A place deep within us is nourished and pleasured.

 

In our extended orgasm practice we take the roles of cause and effect to create optimal sensation and orgasm. We also bring these roles into deep touch so that we can calm and heal our emotional bodies.

 

In taking these roles we optimize our connection with each other and overcome, perhaps, the greatest challenge of life.

Sensuality Vs. Eroticism

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

A clash of Titans!  What are they, how do they exist on our lives, and who comes out on top?

 

Sensuality is based in the 5 senses, based in the body; it is bodily chemistry and feeling.  Eroticism is mental turn-on from a specific idea often based in transcending some taboo or other.  Dominant and submissive roles are the most popular expressions of erotic turn-on. 

   

Whip In regards to our romantic lives we live in a primarily erotic culture (worldwide).  It is a culture marked by an extremely mental approach to life, even one’s love life.

 

Erotism is a good spice to add to one’s love life.  But… the minute it becomes the main course in one’s love life, as it is for most people, it causes a drop in turn-on.  You get diminishing returns.  You have to keep increasing the quantity and intensity of the erotic idea to get the same pleasurable result.  For example, the person in a submissive role must be increasingly that submissive to get turned on. 

 

Eroticism taken too far leads to perversion.  Perversion is the ability to get turned-on only by a very narrow range of stimulus.  For example, women with red hair wearing black latex who remind someone of his first lover.

 

On the other hand, turn-on generated sensually increases the more you engage.   You get increasing returns (more and more pleasure).  For example, turn-on from feeling your hand on someone’s genitals increases the more you focus on what you are feeling in your hand, seeing with your eyes, and so on.

 

For a great sex life Sensuality should be the meal and Eroticism the spice.  If you fall in love with someone for primarily erotic reasons watch out because that turn on will wear out unless they become ever increasingly richer, more dominant, or whatever the “idea turn-on” is.

 

Basing your attraction to someone sensually will have you fall deeper and deeper in love with them over time.  You will become increasingly turned-on by them over time.  This is the secret to having an Eternal Date with someone.   Long standing relationships can be steered in this direction.  If you are single and dating, you may want to start your next relationship this way!

The July Pleasure Course

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

An amazing group of people re-wrote their relationship blueprints and discovered the unlimited happiness and pleasure possible in romance and sex during this July’s Pleasure Course! And we all had an incredible time at the Cocktail Party that followed.

July pleasure course

What a woman wants

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

Women want what they want.  This is obviously true, but often missed.  Sometimes a woman will even miss or not know what she, herself, wants.  What is even more often the case is that she knows what she wants but somehow doesn’t feel right or safe in expressing it.  Her appetite for what she wants, her desire, is withheld or concealed.   

 

what-a-woman-wants Feeling right about her appetite, at all levels, is the same as feeling right about herself.  This seems somehow selfish or at least extremely vulnerable, so she hides it. 

 

As she realizes her appetite, first by getting into agreement with it then by gratifying it, her femininity is expressed fully and perfectly. 

 

The result is infinitely greater pleasure for both sexes.

What a relationship is

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Communication is synonymous with relationship.  What else is a relationship besides ongoing communication?

 

cards-on-the-table It is also synonymous with vulnerability. To communicate with someone is to open and expose yourself the them.     

 

It is also synonymous with truth.  For there to, in fact, be communication, truth must be present; otherwise it would be miscommunication. 

 

The opposite is unrelatedness, defensiveness and lying or withholding.

 

Unrelatedness, defensiveness and lying or withholding are not morally wrong.  They just simply don’t work to be more related to someone, closer to them… to have a better relationship with them.

 

What a relationship actually is… is communication.

 

Would you be willing to put your cards on the table today?

Your relationship future

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Now let’s look at your relationship future.  What is the quality of your future when you look at it? 

 

You can immediately sense if your future is given by your blueprint, i.e. that it is predictable.  Or perhaps your future blossoms from your being present now. In this case the future you imagine is more open, more organic.

 

relationship future If you are present your future has a quality of or softness and openness, if you are not present it has a repetitious dull and dark quality.   

 

Where you are now, or how you are now, determines your “now future”. This is where the future is created or lived from.  The present gives the future.

 

Your mind is always mapping out the future.  That is the activity of mind. If you are in your blueprint/playbook now, in the presnt, you are going to map out what is in that blueprint.  And that is what your future will look like.

 

If you are present then the map becomes very different and very secondary… and the future is bright.

Your relationship life now

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Well, there’s your relationship life now, as it actually is… And there is your relationship life in your head, all the thoughts you have about your relationship life and all the patterns and activities you have from those thoughts.

 

Let’s look at your relationship life as it actually is.  

 

happy-couple Before you think anything, what is there? Before you think anything, what is present? Nothing that you thought in your head is actually there the way you thought it.  If you can get out of the relationship life as you think it is in your head, everything is somehow unified and together and there’s no opinion about anything. Things just are as they are, but there is a very distinct experience to it.

 

Your relationship life occurs very differently here, than in your head.  Fundamentally, there is no sense of a problem.

 

Now, what human beings ordinarily think up in regards to their relationship is from their past, as we distinguished last week. Mostly it’s given by our early parental and sibling relationships. This gives a limited ability in relationship, and can cause many relationship problems. The natural skills of relationship, such as the love, connection, paying attention, seeing what the other person wants, and so on, are largely blocked. To be more exact, these are not so much skills as natural capacities of reality that one has when one is present.

 

There are two ways of developing these relationship skills. One way is to develop and practice them; the second is to be fully present and let them arrive. The first is somewhat willful and keeps the identity pattern intact, but it can be helpful. By being present, they will come naturally.

How to have an Eternal Date

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

An Eternal Date is a romantic relationship that keeps reaching higher peaks in love and sex. Sometimes we call it a “Peaking” relationship. Here are 10 keys to having an enternal date. If you are looking to start a new relationship, you can practice many of these and they will attract a soulmate.

 

Having an eternal date

  1. Have lots of vacations
  2. Be so honest they can’t help but love you
  3. Take care of each other emotionally
  4. Research and study sex enthusiastically
  5. Take your partner on dates
  6. Flirt unabashedly
  7. Make lots of time available
  8. Develop a rich spiritual life
  9. Get to know you and your partner’s romantic conditioning
  10. Realize it’s a lot more important than most of the rest of the stuff you’re doing!

Three ways to deal with upset in relationship

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Relating with another person will occasionally involve upset, and this is a perfectly normal part of any relationship. But what’s the best way to handle yourself in these situations, to minimize the pain and damage that can be caused without causing more relationship problems? Here are three ways I’ve found of dealing with upset as it comes up.

Relationship problems involving upset The first is to know that if someone says something sharp to you, it is normal to feel hurt. Rather than striving for imperviousness in this kind of situation, have compassion and space for you to have the experience.

The second is to minimize “going to work” on the experience. It’s very easy to take the experience and use it to justify yourself, or defend yourself, or avoid intimacy or vulnerability. This is of course hard to do, and the key here is the first step I mentioned: have compassion for what you’re feeling, feel what you’re feeling fully, and the need to act on it or process it or use it will slowly drift away.

 

The third is, don’t take it personally. When somebody attacks you or says something offensive, it really has little to nothing to do with you, and everything to do with the other person. This will help with the two steps above, and will help in understanding and having compassion for the other person, which will make it a lot easier for both of you to move beyond the sharp interaction.

 

This will help to clear your mind in the moment, and from a clear mind there are any number of options which can forward the situation, rather than reinforce the negative and defensive feelings which prompted the upset in the first place.

The February Pleasure Course

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

An amazing group of people re-wrote their relationship blueprints and discovered the unlimited happiness and pleasure possible in romance during this February’s Pleasure Course!

February Pleasure Course

Relationship advice on taking your love life to the next level

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Radio Hear Erwan and Alicia’s radio interview titled “Relationship advice on taking your love life to the next level”

Flirting with enlightenment

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

Flirting is worth bringing into long standing relationships as well as new relationships and the exciting process of meeting potential partners.  Why leave the romance behind, right?

Enlightenment… we could spend days discussing what that is.  Here’s a useful definition: knowing and feeling your inherent perfection and the perfection of all that is.  This doesn’t mean there aren’t pleasure and pain, good stuff and bad stuff, and so on.  A man and woman flirting with enlightenment

Flirting with enlightenment can mean two things: 1) considering that perhaps everything is right the way it is… or 2) flirting with a sense of rightness about yourself and the other.

 

My point about enlightenment is maybe it’s time for you to just love yourself, others and life exactly as they are and exactly as they are not.  Of course, you still grow, things change, you learn and so on, but the endless waiting for things to be OK is over.  You can start having fun now!

 

My point about flirting is that if you are right with the way things are, really in agreement with them, you are a way better flirt.  Whether you are dating, falling in love, married or any other state of relationship, your love life simply works better.

 

There is something beyond endlessly trying to get there.  Why not start from good?  It is a pretty enlightened thing to do… especially romantically.

His and hers relationship hang-ups

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

One of the most common questions that people ask me, whether they are married, boyfriend/girlfriend or dating is some version of how do I get my partner to either approve of me more or pay more attention to me.  With men it is typically, “How do I get her to approve of me more?”  With women it is typically, “How do I get him to pay more attention to me?”

 

Men’s biggest relationship hang-up is not paying attention.  This infuriates women and he pays, although he often doesn’t know what he is paying for!

 

Women’s biggest relationship hang-up is not being authentically approving when asking for what the want.  The result is guys don’t listen and stay dumb (if you’ll excuse me for being so blunt).

relationship problem steming from lack of attention and approval

 

You may start to see that a vicious circle has formed.  The more she disapproves the less attention he pays and the less attention he pays the more disapproving she is.  This is the unfortunate circumstance of many relationships.  Hence why we sometimes say when teaching the Pleasure Course, “Guys are dumb and women are mean.”

 

The good news is that if either partner is willing to acknowledge their hang-up and give it up, slowly but surely the relationship will correct.  It doesn’t happen overnight but it does happen.  When a he starts paying more attention she get’s a lot more approving.  When she starts getting more approving (while not compromising what she wants, I should add) he starts paying more attention.

 

This is some of the best relationship advice I could give you.  You may find love you didn’t know you had in your current love life.  Oh and it is dating advice too!

 

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When to take a relationship to the next level

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Relationships have a natural path through stages.  In the Pleasure Course we focus on those stages in detail, but for now let’s just use their titles: the new and exciting stage, the best friends and lovers stage and the eternal date stage.

 

a woman with a marraige problem: should she say yes, or no, or maybe? People run into difficulty because they may be more comfortable at one stage and not another, or they may have skills in one stage and not another.  We have found this difficulty to be the case for most people.  You may have a tendency to try to rush ahead, say to the eternal date (a committed relationship), or a tendency to stay behind, say eternally dating (and never getting serious). The most common scenario that we have found over the last 17 years of teaching people to have successful romantic relationships is that of a woman wanting to rush ahead in the relationship, prematurely pushing toward commitment, and a man wanting to keep it in the dating stage, often way beyond when moving forward would create more depth and quality of romance.  This was the scenario that Alicia and I had to move through.

  

This is only the most common scenario. The roles can be reversed, the middle stage of relationship can come into play, and so on.  The possible permutations are infinite.  The point is that our individual relationship blueprints (our personal psychologies) can distort a natural progression through the stages at the appropriate time for maximum pleasure and romance.

 

How do you know when to take a relationship to the next level?  You have to get out of your head and simply be present to the relationship.  There will be a feeling, a sense that you can tap into, as to whether the relationship is due to upgrade.  If you aren’t inhibiting it, it will happen naturally.  If you are rushing it, and you get out of your head and simply be present to the relationship, there will be a natural tendency to slow down.

 

This is one of the beauties of life.  Things flow naturally if we get out the way.  That is a tall order, I must admit.  It really is a spiritual process that we have covered and will cover in other topics.  But, for now, know that you have to be present to the relationship not your relationship blueprint.  Have your attention on the relationship, not on yourself!

 

Life also provides hints! Your friends (who have good relationships) are pushing you in one direction or the other.  Or, you’ve been dating this person for a really long time, say years… probably time to cut bait or move forward.  Or, you just started dating a few weeks ago and you are trying to push it forward… probably good to slow down. 

 

You get the idea!

 

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Avoid the most damaging romantic mistake

Monday, October 11th, 2010

The biggest mistake that people make in romantic relationship is bringing out the worst in their partner.  This applies to long standing relationships, the first date and everything in between.

 

A couple made the most damaging mistake they could. They have a relationship problem as a result. Relationships have tricky and often complex dynamics.  Sometimes what we perceive in someone else is actually what we are creating over there in them!  Projecting our fears and concerns onto the other person is how this all get’s started.

 

Let’s look at an example.  Let’s say you are afraid that your partner will reject you or be mad at you about something, so you are defensive, maybe even hostile.  Then they are mad.  Maybe they don’t know what is going on, but they feel put off, so they are distant and in a sense reject you. 

 

This is the biggest relationship mistake that people make: they act in ways with their partners that bring out the worst in the other person.  Disapproving of your partner is guaranteed to do this!

 

This creates a vicious circle.  What we feared has become the case.  Seldom do we realize our part in creating it.

 

Avoid the most damaging relationship mistake.  Always give your partner the benefit of the doubt!

Why you avoid being intimate

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

People resist intimacy primarily because they are hurt and afraid.  To whatever degree you find yourself pulling away from your partner, resisting having one or buffering yourself from really being close with someone is the degree to which you are caught in a cycle of hurt and fear followed by all of the strange ways of being that we use as responses to that hurt and fear.

 

A heart locked up, resisting intimacy and vulnurability The hurt and fear, along with all the overlaid responses are what we call your relationship blueprint.  Hurt and fear underlie the relationship blueprint and are the source of many relationship problems.  They are the underbelly of the blueprint.  The blueprint is used to protect ourselves.   As children we felt hurt, quickly followed by fear.  Makes sense, right?  Then we quickly put together a system to handle that.  

 

The hurt comes from a variety of experiences: different versions of being abused or not being seen and acknowledged.  Basically, we are raised in a less than ideal environment.  This is inevitable, to some degree, because the environment can never be ideal.

 

The problem is that the blueprint, the distancing ourselves from others, ends up creating more hurt and fear.  We end up in the vicious circle caused by responding to our hurt and fear in ways that cause more hurt and fear, damaging our relationships and love life.

 

The most common relationship blueprint orientations, in response to the hurt and fear, are: attacking, avoiding, acquiescing and ignoring.

 

We’ll explore these relationship blueprint orientations in future topics.  For now, the most important point is to feel through the blueprint to it’s underbelly of hurt and fear.  This is where healing can happen.

What are your sexual blind spots?

Friday, September 10th, 2010

In the 27 combined years Alicia and I have been working with people and transforming their relationship and sex lives, one of the things that we’ve noticed is that everyone has particular patterns that they aren’t aware of. There are blind spots as to things that we all do and ways of being that we all bring into our sex lives, and they can be the source of many relationship problems.

 

They may be obvious from the outside, for example if somebody were videoing us, but from the inside we may not even know that we are doing that. For example, somebody could be very timid, in bed they don’t move very much, or they’re very tentative in their touch. But to themselves, they probably don’t feel or know that they’re being timid. To them, that is just how it is, it’s just normal. Just like we might walk a particular way, it might even be a funny way, but for us we’re just walking. A couple having relationship problems due to sexual blind spots

 

That is what a blind spot is. A blind spot is a blind spot because you don’t see what is actually going on or how you’re being. There is a lack of perspective. Look for yourselves right now. What might be a blind spot for you? It could be any way of being, or a habit, or a tendency, or a behavior. It could be being silent, it could be being withdrawn, it could be being aggressive. Some of the best relationship advice I could give in this area is to ask somebody else’s opinion, especially a current or past lover! It’s a really fun conversation. It can open up a lot of things, and can help build a very healthy relationship and love life. 

How to rewrite your romantic fate, part 1

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

We all have a romantic fate. If you look into your future, you’ve probably got a sense of how your romance is going to go. It may be great, it may not be so great, and it may be somewhere in the middle. That is your romantic fate.

Rewriting your romantic fate Where does this fate come from? It comes from something I call your “romantic blueprint.” This is the template, or set of principles or beliefs, that you’re using to guide yourself in your romance and love life. The problems with most people’s blueprint are first that it was designed between the ages of 0 and 15, and second it usually lives in a blind spot and operates unconsciously. In your love life, you may have noticed yourself acting out a repetitive pattern that leads to relationship problems. Despite seeing this pattern, you find yourself compelled to continue acting that way, and getting the same

results. The reason that this is going on is because the romantic blue print is guiding this action, and this blueprint is in a blind spot.

 

So, what are the steps to rewriting your romantic blueprint, and hence your romantic fate?

 

The first, and most important step, is to uncover your romantic blueprint. A great way to do this is sit down with a piece of paper and write out the patterns in your relationship history, your beliefs about relationship, what your relationship future looks like, etc. Getting it out concretely on paper is important (conversations about it can be very useful but miss the physical element).

 

I remember, before I got in relationship with Alicia, I noticed that my relationships had progressed only to a certain point. I was OK at dating, I was pretty good at boyfriend/girlfriend, but committed just wasn’t really happening for me. So one day I wrote down all the girlfriends I had had in my life (about 10 at that point) and then, because it was there in front of me, it hit me like a bolt of lightning…in my mind I created something wrong with each and every one of them. Part of my blueprint was a belief that there is something wrong with my romantic partner. (See the post titled Getting over my relationship hang-ups for more detail on this.)

 

Part 2 of this entry will tell you what to do with your blueprint once you’ve uncovered it!

How to be romantic amidst a busy life

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Nowadays, we’re all very busy. Sometimes romance gets squeezed out of our schedules and disappears in the face of all the other stuff there is to do. So here are a three great ways to jazz up a romance amidst a busy life:

 

How to have a healthy relationship even if you're busy 1. Prioritize. If having a healthy relationship and a life full of good strong love is important to you, cut the less important stuff out. And, the essential piece here is, make it real by putting romance into your calendar. We may think we don’t need to be reminded to be romantic or make time for sex, but the reality is, we all need to be reminded to do the fun and pleasurable stuff.

 

2. Take regular vacations with a focus on romance. This doesn’t mean spending a lot of time or money. Alicia and I go on vacation at least once a month, often to a place just minutes outside of San Francisco for the weekend. A couple of days a month devoted fully to romance (leave your cell phones, laptops, and kids home!) can do wonders for your love life.

 

3. Maintain chemistry. There are many ways to add romance to a relationship that don’t take up a lot of time, or even need you to be in the same place as your partner. Having flowers delivered, leaving a note behind before you leave for work, sending a sexy text on your lunch break, are all examples of easy things to do that can create and maintain chemistry and polarity between a couple, especially in the middle of a busy work day or week.

How to have a successful healthy relationship: Three essential ingredients

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

What makes the difference in any relationship is that each whole person is there and available for the relating. There are three aspects to this, and enhancing any one will really help any relationship succeed. This relationship advice really applies to any relationship, whether the first date, a brand new relationship, or a marriage.

 

The first essential ingredient is approval. This means being emotionally available to the other person. When we are emotionally available, we are loving. I mean something wider here than simply saying nice things, I really mean the loving, warm, caring that emanates towards the other when we are emotionally available to that person. For some, expressing emotions readily is easy. For others, it brings up a feeling of vulnerability and being unsafe. A healthy relationship symbolized by a heart is composed of three ingredients, fitting together like puzzle pieces

 

These feelings are generally rooted in a deep hurt experienced during childhood. When this hurt is felt, we emotionally bind up and harden because we don’t want to be hurt again. Noticing this hurt is the first step toward healing it, which allows us to become more emotionally open and vulnerable with another.

 

The second essential ingredient is turn-on or chemistry. For romantic love to be successful, there has to be the enjoyment, really the exploitation, of that sex energy. Unfortunately this energy can get dampened, by schedules or cultural norms or other beliefs. And fortunately, it can actually be turned back on. This starts with deliberate attention on the turn-on in the relationship, then learning the skills necessary to cultivate it (seduction, structure, flirting, and maximizing sexual pleasure, etc).

 

The third essential ingredient is “realness.” By this I mean, honesty, I mean being real with the person now, being present with the other person moment by moment. This is really can be the most challenging aspect of relationship, and there really is no easy way to do it. All we can do is be real NOW, no matter what the circumstances.

 

A nice aspect of all of this is that couples can support each other in the different areas, especially if one is strong where the other is weak. For example, someone strong in approval can approvingly request and help the other be more approving! Or if one is weak in realness, the stronger partner can point out when a situation isn’t feeling very real to them.

 

And finally, knowing that simply being more approving, turned-on, and real will improve a relationship is a relief! Whether looking for dating advice, wanting to improve a good relationship, or thinking about marriage counseling, this knowledge takes much of the mystery out of relationship problems!

Six steps to handle the intense emotions that arise in relationship

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Relationship is the most common place intense emotions come up. The emotions are usually very sensitive, and can be the source of many relationship problems. Here is the best way I’ve found to handle them, broken into six steps:

 

An angry woman, an example of an intense emotion one can learn how to deal with in relationship The first way to handle intense emotions is to create space for that emotion. Basically this means, don’t ignore the emotion. There is a tendency to turn away from and avoid the intensity of feeling that comes up for us when we relate to another person. Now, this also doesn’t mean address it immediately and irresponsibly with the other person as soon as it comes up. Really it means simply allow the experience you are having. Don’t run away, don’t obsess, just let the emotion be. 

  

 The second thing to do is admit what you’re feeling. This doesn’t mean you need to do anything about the emotion, rather it simply means face that you are feeling that way, acknowledge that you are experiencing this emotion. 

 

The third thing to do is to express the emotion constructively and artistically. For example, if you feel angry and do a collage about your anger, it allows you to get your hands around the emotion, to see it and taste it. By simply doing something with your emotion that is not avoidant, the experience will start to lift and open.

 

The fourth thing to do is Corework. This is a type of mediation we teach in the Pleasure Course in which one goes to the core of what one is feeling, one confronts one’s experience. Opening with a spiritual practice liberates negative emotions, sooths and calms excited emotions, and enhances positive and turned on emotions. Just as the third step deals with the emotion artistically, this step deals with it spiritually.

 

These first four steps have been getting into the emotion, really feeling it. Now one is ready for the fifth step: communicate. This step is fifth because one really wants to spend a lot of time being with one’s emotion, feeling it thoroughly, THEN you want to communicate. When we instantly rush to communicate what we’re feeling usually we end up dumping or projecting, and we end up dealing with the trigger of the emotion rather than dealing with the emotion at its root. Embracing and feeling the emotion thoroughly before communicating really makes communication possible.

 

Finally the emotion can be released. This step actually isn’t something you do actively, it is something that happens naturally if the above steps are taken. If one feels the emotion fully, then shares and communicates, the feeling will release.

 

To bottom line it, the best relationship advice I have is: do not shy away from the intensity of emotion. Intense emotions will always come up, whether on your first date, in a new relationship or you have the most established and healthy relationship. Go into them, embrace them. Even though this is the opposite of what we usually think to do, you’ll find your experience lift and open.

How to know if you are in the right relationship?

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

We often wonder if we are in the “right” relationship.  Well… You are in the right relationship!… however it is, even if you don’t have one.  It is such a relief to know that.  Maybe things are exactly how they should be and maybe nothing is wrong.

 If you don’t like the relationship, then you can leave graciously, but that doesn’t mean anything is or was ever wrong with it.  At the same time very deep emotions about love, finding love, marriage and so on, surface when we accept our relationship life how it is and how it feels.  Now, you may leave your relationship at some point or you may not, but either way there does not need to be anything wrong with your relationship.   An inverted question mark

Whether you are on the first date, married, divorced, looking to date, or whatever, the best relationship advice I could give you is… enjoy it!

Best sex ever today

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Every day Alicia and I discover more and more how female orgasm is the secret to greater and greater sexual pleasure. Sensual pleasure and sexual pleasure has been our focus for a combined 25 years of teaching people how to have, not only good relationships, but exceptionally turned on relationships! We are firm believers that a woman’s pleasure is the key to better sex for both him and her. 

 

In addition to the sensual pleasure, great sex continually dissolves relationship problems as well as bringing intimacy and connection.  The female libido has long been overlooked but, in the end, few people would deny their interest. Building a relationship that is so vibrantly and sexually charged, that it turns him and turns her on more than when it was a new relationship is something everyone desires.

 

A couple having better sex through focus on female orgasm and the woman's pleasure

This morning Alicia and I had the best sex of our relationship, 8 years into it… and that is normal for us. Our lives as relationship advice givers, sexuality teachers, and teachers of personal growth take us to all kinds of highs and lows. At the same time, our sex life connects us in true love and increasingly greater sexual pleasure creating an enjoyable center to our relationship, our work and our lives.

Most common cause of a relationship problem: holding back

Monday, March 1st, 2010

It took me several relationships to get my bearings, including the loss of a five year relationship when I was twenty-five. Finally, I got it right when I married Alicia. I have also had the privilege of supporting hundreds of relationships over the last seventeen years. The biggest mistake people make is holding out, holding back, keeping one foot out the back door. Don’t do it. If it turns out not to be the right relationship, at least you’ll know sooner… And, if you don’t hold back, it just might be the right relationship sooner than you think.

4 Steps to having the Best Holidays Ever

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

The holidays are an opportunity for love and connection, but can be difficult, even depressing for some. Here are 4 keys to having great holidays:

Intend, declare and decide to have a blast.
The incomplete stuff from 2009, either handle it now, or put it in the past.
Tell the people you love how much you love them.
Put lots of fun stuff in your calendar.

By the way, these steps also work for any relationship problem you may face! Just replace “from 2009″ with “the relationship problem”.

Go for what you want in relationship!

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

People often compromise when they get into a relationship, for example getting into an open relationship when they want something committed or getting into a committed relationship when they want something looser…or many other types of compromises. In the beginning it is always fine, but sooner or later they always feel like they aren’t getting what they want…because they aren’t. Fully and authentically changing one’s mind is another matter, but compromise is always a loser. I encourage people to really go for what they want. When you do that you meet the kind of people who want that too!

Get relationship and sex into your calendar!

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

One of the central themes of the Pleasure Course in May was “structuring your life extraordinary relationships and ecstatic sex.” Insights won’t do it. It really takes re-prioritizing. People’s schedules are crowded these days. But, when we take a look, people’s schedules are often crowded with things less important than their relationship or sex life! Take a few less important things out of your schedule and put in practices for good, healthy relationships and great sex. It makes an enormous difference.

4 Steps to turning relationship problems around

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

I have the privilege of getting the inside scoop on the sex lives of countless relationships. The reality is that in most cases the turn-on decreases after the “honey-moon” period is over (although most people are reluctant to admit this before the relationship has all but bottomed out.) This decline does not have to be the case. Over and over we have the privilege of helping couples (or singles learn how to) turn their relationships back on or enhance an already great sex life!

Here are the 4 steps: 1) Tell the Truth about how your sex life has been going since the beginning of the relationship, graph it; 2) Commit to an ever expanding sex life and be willing to do what it takes; 3) Learn the art of DOing (basically, how you can create chemistry and turn-on to the point of sustained high level male and female orgasm); 4) Structure your lives so that sensuality and pleasure (including your new DOing skills) are prioritized.

Are you afraid to study sex?

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Rarely do human beings study, research and seriously learn about what we are the most interested in. Sex is a good example of that. There is a hidden barrier of fear, trepidation and mistrust. What would people think? Where could this lead? Will I be OK? Will I be good at it? Typically, learning tennis or how to use a computer program doesn’t carry this kind of charge. We study it and learn it and get better at it to the degree that we seriously engage the topic. Sex, relationships, and enlightenment are the same way… but we have these fears and concerns. Are these topics worth overcoming our fears and taking action anyway?

As in with any subject or interest, studying relationship and sex really is key in having a good relationship and great sex!