The Art of Everyday Ecstasy
The Seven Tantric Keys for Bringing Passion, Spirit, and Joy into Every Part of Your Life
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Publisher Description
"Ecstasy is about waking up and finding that you are in love with life."
Most people think of ecstasy in terms of sexual ecstasy, which Tantric sex expert Margot Anand wrote about in her bestselling The Art of Sexual Ecstasy. Now, in The Art of Everyday Ecstasy, Anand expands our definition of ecstasy and shows how we can harness its energy to help us live, work, and love more passionately, joyfully, and with true spiritual focus.
Our modern, work-obsessed, stress-filled culture--what Anand calls the "anti-ecstatic conspiracy"--has dulled our spirits, thrown us off balance, and alienated us from meaningful everyday experiences. In this inspirational journey toward finding the healing nature of ecstasy, Anand explains how the two types of ecstatic experiences--the moments of epiphany called Ecstatic Awakenings, and EveryDay Ecstasy, or the Ecstasy of Flow, a connection to our power and inner wisdom--can help us move beyond pain and doubt to reach our highest potential.
Based on the spiritual path of Tantra, Anand shows how to use the natural energy system of our bodies--the seven chakras--as a map to ecstasy. As she guides us through the chakras, she explains how each one plays an important role in transforming energy into erotic passion, healing, empowerment, compassion, creativity, insight, and gratitude. Blocked chakras manifest themselves in surprising ways; wholeness can be achieved only when all of the chakras are open with energy flowing freely. By transforming negative behavioral patterns into positive ones and strengthening ourselves physically, emotionally, and spiritually, we can improve our health, sex life, career, relationships, and find profound meaning in everyday moments.
With personal anecdotes, exercises, meditations, and rituals, The Art of Everyday Ecstasy shows us how to bring ecstatic energy into the body, mind, heart, and spirit--"to embrace every moment in our totality, to respond bodily, feel from the heart, perceive with clarity, and be fully present to others and to life."
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In years past, tantric spirituality was generally dismissed in the West as kinky sex or denigrated as an insidious come-on used by fake gurus to seduce na ve devotees. Recently, however, the 3000-year-old Indian science of generating powerful sexual energies and transforming them into heightened states of consciousness has moved toward the center of the self-help/spirituality movement. In a practical guide that applies tantric skills to ordinary life, Anand (The Art of Sexual Ecstasy) presents a program designed to achieve "everyday ecstasy" outside the context of sexual activity. "The way we live our sexuality is a metaphor for the way we live our life," she writes. "Intimacy, opening the heart, visualizing, focusing, letting go of the mind, being fully present, loving self and others, and moving beyond fears are, in fact, the essential skills of life." Offering a wide variety of rituals and contemplative exercises that have been adapted for daily practice, she shows how their use in conjunction with regular observation of the seven chakras, or energy centers in the body, will help track the transformation of energy as it moves through the body and will enhance one's experience of those energies. History and myth, testimonies of practitioners and quotes from both ancient and modern spiritual masters help ground her teaching in classic tantric Buddhism. This fresh and accessible guide to relating sexuality to the spirit is a welcome addition to the self-help bookshelf. Author tour.
