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Book SynopsisSurrender 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 ContentsJoy
Preface1. 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
