I’m learning. It seems that the more skilled I become in being “present”, I am better able to be “present” with other people. As I go deeper into my meditation experience and related practices, I am able to be more intimate in other settings, and still keep my balance.
This is not easy. Staying balanced, staying centered in the midst of intimacy is a challenge for me. It is a work in progress to be sure.
I am grateful that I have a group of friends, men and women that I am comfortable being intimate with. With them, I can both be very present and be part of their presence. These friends I truly treasure, and look forward to the times that we can talk and be together. With then I have an intimacy that grows with my personal practice and my own ability to be with them in an intimate way. I am happy to be friends with them.
There have been times when I got messed up with intimacy. I think I grew up in an atmosphere of deprived intimacy, and somehow came to crave it. I don’t think I have known how to manage the desire because as I became able to enter into someone else’s presence, I lost touch with my own. I slipped off center, I lost my balance. Their agenda became my focus.
It has been good that I have lived alone for about 2 years. I have been able to live without the distraction of interaction for much of that time. I am so grateful that during this time I have been able to become more contemplative, more meditative, more mindful, more present. I have a new sense of balance. I am so much more able to share intimacy with my friends. I am a better friend.
Barry, Well said.
When she says jump, my first reaction is: how high. Yet it seems she does not see that. And
we are off balance because of it.
She makes the requests of me much more often than I do of her. That is off balance.
I don’t even knbow how I finished up here, however I believed this submit used to be good.
I don’t recognize who you are however certainly you’re going to a well-known blogger for those
who are not already. Cheers!
May I simply just say what a comfort to find
an individual who genuinely understands what they’re discussing on the internet.
You certainly understand how to bring an issue to light and make it important.
A lot more people need to read this and understand this side of the story.
It’s surprising you are not more popular because you most certainly possess the gift.
Thank you I hope you will stay tuned.