"Intimacy...can only occur when the heart is undefended."
To cut through our personal differences... means learning how to love and be loved without defenses and without obstructions. It means cultivating the capacity to be emotionally present even when we feel exposed or vulnerable, learning to relinquish the many strategies we have employed to feel safe and in control...
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Connecting with the person you love isn’t just about having a companion, or forming a close partnership. Most of us hope for a truly intimate relationship, where the connection between us is direct, unmediated, and heart-to-heart. This book offers a challenging new way for readers to reach just such a higher level inside themselves, where they can experience a relationship that is fresh and unrehearsed.
It’s Hard But It’s Worth It
This is a path that dares to suggest that most people live in the basement of themselves, not daring to seek the treasures in the sun-flooded rooms upstairs. It is their birthright to live upstairs, yet they remain in one little corner of the basement all their lives, decorating it with curtains and throw rugs. Intimate partners invite each other over to their basement apartments. In Undefended Love, the authors offer a challenging way for readers to climb the stairway to higher levels of themselves where they can have a relationship that is fresh, unrehearsed, loving, deeply intimate and full of light.
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Jett Psaris and Marlena S. Lyons, Co-founders of the Conscious Living Center
Since 1990, the Conscious Living Center, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, has been offering seminars and retreats to guide couples and individuals in cultivating the capacity for experiencing undefended love – with oneself as well as others.
Marlena has been in private practice specializing in relationship issues since 1979. Jett came to the field of psycho-spiritual work in 1988, after a decade in business as an executive in several high-profile companies.
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