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The Healing Power of Slow Love Mar 25, 2009
I give Slow Love five stars for its ability to encourage healing in the areas of love and sexuality. Several years ago I put "thaw this frozen heart" on my to-do list next to items like "finish taxes" and "get a salad spinner." I was never able to remove the most important item from my list because I just didn't know how to go about defrosting my solid core, which usually felt sad whenever I even contemplated the idea of romance. But fortunately I was able to listen my heart, which ultimately led me to read this book, perhaps because it resonates with the intelligence of both the mind and the heart.
Powell writes largely from a meditative state of consciousness, in a friendly but professional manner. That's part of the reason that even someone like me (I've been living a monk-like existence for several years now, avoiding the insanity and hyperactivity of modern sexual relationships) can benefit from this book. One of the many nice experiences that I had from reflecting on this book was actually laughing about a memory that, until recently, felt like a wound. My perception of myself shifted from that of a victim to that of someone who simply lacked awareness.
Slow Love should be required reading for anyone who has suffered from the influence of Western ideas regarding sexuality. Most Westerners know, consciously or unconsciously, that there's something very wrong or missing from conventional sexual interactions. Until one finds this book, that awareness may happen only briefly during a poignant moment during a film, upon hearing the words of a song, or while recalling the memory of once being loved in the right way. I like the way that Powell takes this awareness and expands it until it creates a paradigm shift internally.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Between Stimulation and Stillness Mar 15, 2009
In the Preface to Slow Love: A Polynesian Pillow Book, the author invites us to begin to explore the movement of desire within ourselves and discover its relationship to our capacity for desirelessness. Such a way of loving is one of integrating our spiritual and animal natures. The South Sea islanders were able to do this because of their intimacy with the sense of touch from infancy, which comes naturally to children raised in societies where they are in constant contact with their mothers' skin. Many studies have shown that these infants develop differently. The South Sea approach to sex mirrors and builds upon this capacity to blend peace and passion. There are so many sex manuals about stimulation, but this one is unique in inviting us to integrate it with inner stillness.
Tahitian Tantra Jan 31, 2009
For many tribal peoples living in tropical climates, nudity and near-nudity have always been a natural expression of life. These cultures are high-touch cultures because infants are held against women's bare bodies from the moment of birth. When the women are working, the infant is strapped against the mother's skin. If the mother sets the infant down, another female family member picks the infant up. The child also rests against the mother at night.
Children in these tropical, high-touch cultures grow up within a quiet and peaceful touching environment that overflows into their love lives when they are older. As lovers, they do not come together to solve a senses of anxiety and separation from lack of touching, but to dive deeper into the sea of touch they have always been immersed in, so that a heart-to-heart embrace brings them to an oceaninc co-mingling of souls.
The teachings in this book on South Seas sexuality have been followed for thousands of years in these cultures, and can infinitely deepen intimacy between any lovers, infusing their loving with a more subtle, skillful and powerful use of the senses, leading to perfect union.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Learn To Really Connect with Your Partner Jan 11, 2009
James Powell takes you through the magical world of Polynesian lovemaking where you will learn how to truly reconnect with your partner spiritually and physically. "Slow Love" redefines lovemaking and takes the pressure off performance and outcome. You learn about historical Polynesian relationships, marriage and family life. Then James takes various aspects and shows you how to easily incorporate them into a Western lifestyle, from breathing exercises to sensual positions.
If your lovemaking has taken a backseat in your relationship, you'll find no better guide to helping you achieve the intimacy and enjoyment you want to have with your sweetheart or spouse. Your hearts will be reunited! Highly recommended for committed couples who want to transform their relationship for life.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
What a difference Dec 25, 2008
This book is cool because I learned the value of simplicity and of the heart. One of the author's basic points is that your sex life is simply an expression of your emotional and spiritual life. Therefore, if you want to improve your sex life, you must start with your own capacity to love.
Whereas Western culture it is basically left up to kids to discover what sex is all about, in some traditional Polynesian cultures that no longer exist, sex was considered sacred, and sexual wisdom was passed down from generation to generation--until the coming of the missionaries.
These societies practiced ways of loving that deepened the feelings of peace and union between lovers to such an extent that in comparison, much of the loving in the contemporary world seems rushed and shallow.
Reading this book is a way of examining your assumptions about sex and showing you how misleading those assumptions can be. Truly, an unexamined sex life is really not worth living, which is why this book is so worth reading and embodying.
Recommended for couples wishing to deepen their relationship.
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