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    Joy

    The Surrender to the Body and to Life

    Part of Compass

    Author Alexander Lowen
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    On sale Dec 01, 1995 | 352 Pages | 9781101501658
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    Surrender to your body and recover joy

    Alexander Lowen, famous student of Wilhelm Reich and founder of Bioenergetics, reveals in this book how to reclaim a natural, childlike state of joy through exercises that revive the body's vitality and liberate the energy of suppressed feelings. Using examples from four decades of clinical practice, Lowen shows how painful emotional experiences—from sexual abuse and fear of dying to the anger and heartbreak all human beings experience in life—are manifested in bodily symptoms. He then instructs readers how to listen for and answer the unique signals in the body that serve as internal cries for freedom. The vibrant health that results has a wide range of holistic benefits for the total being, including enhanced sexual pleasure and heightened spirituality. Joy, the culmination of Lowen’s life work, is a wonderfully hopeful and transformational guide from one of the pioneers of body/mind therapy.
    JoyPreface

    1. Joy
    The Freedom from Guilt
    Feeling the Life of the Body

    2. The Surrender to the Body
    The Surrender of the Narcissistic Ego
    Grounding and Reality

    3. Crying: The Releasing Emotion

    4. The Resistance to Crying
    I Won't Break Down
    The Surrender of the Will: Despair

    5. Anger: The Healing Emotion

    6. Love: The Fulfilling Emotion
    The Surrender to Love
    Mature Love

    7. The Betrayal of Love

    8. Sexual Abuse

    9. Fear: The Paralyzing Emotion

    10. The Fear of Death

    11. Passion, Sex, and Joy

    12. Passion and the Spirit
    The Surrender to God
    The Dancing Spirit

    Dr. Alexander Lowen is the creator of bioenergetics, which he has defined as "a therapeutic technique to help a person get back together with his body and to help him enjoy to the fullest degree possible the life of the body." Incorporating direct work on the body into the psychoanalytic process, Dr. Lowen practices psychiatry in New York and Connecticut and is the executive director of the Institute of Bioenergetic Analysis. He is married and lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with his wife and son. View titles by Alexander Lowen

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    Surrender to your body and recover joy

    Alexander Lowen, famous student of Wilhelm Reich and founder of Bioenergetics, reveals in this book how to reclaim a natural, childlike state of joy through exercises that revive the body's vitality and liberate the energy of suppressed feelings. Using examples from four decades of clinical practice, Lowen shows how painful emotional experiences—from sexual abuse and fear of dying to the anger and heartbreak all human beings experience in life—are manifested in bodily symptoms. He then instructs readers how to listen for and answer the unique signals in the body that serve as internal cries for freedom. The vibrant health that results has a wide range of holistic benefits for the total being, including enhanced sexual pleasure and heightened spirituality. Joy, the culmination of Lowen’s life work, is a wonderfully hopeful and transformational guide from one of the pioneers of body/mind therapy.

    Table of Contents

    JoyPreface

    1. Joy
    The Freedom from Guilt
    Feeling the Life of the Body

    2. The Surrender to the Body
    The Surrender of the Narcissistic Ego
    Grounding and Reality

    3. Crying: The Releasing Emotion

    4. The Resistance to Crying
    I Won't Break Down
    The Surrender of the Will: Despair

    5. Anger: The Healing Emotion

    6. Love: The Fulfilling Emotion
    The Surrender to Love
    Mature Love

    7. The Betrayal of Love

    8. Sexual Abuse

    9. Fear: The Paralyzing Emotion

    10. The Fear of Death

    11. Passion, Sex, and Joy

    12. Passion and the Spirit
    The Surrender to God
    The Dancing Spirit

    Author

    Dr. Alexander Lowen is the creator of bioenergetics, which he has defined as "a therapeutic technique to help a person get back together with his body and to help him enjoy to the fullest degree possible the life of the body." Incorporating direct work on the body into the psychoanalytic process, Dr. Lowen practices psychiatry in New York and Connecticut and is the executive director of the Institute of Bioenergetic Analysis. He is married and lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with his wife and son. View titles by Alexander Lowen

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    • Joy
      Joy
      The Surrender to the Body and to Life
      Alexander Lowen
      9780140194937
      $24.00 US
      Paperback
      Penguin Books
      Dec 01, 1995
    • Joy
      Joy
      The Surrender to the Body and to Life
      Alexander Lowen
      9780140194937
      $24.00 US
      Paperback
      Penguin Books
      Dec 01, 1995

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