Intimacy is a sacred imagination but most of us never give intimacy attention. We don't contemplate its meaning or purpose in our lives or in the cosmos.

 

Wouldn't you like your experience of every kind of intimacy to be intimately conscious?

 

Love and romance are so easy compared to intimacy. Intimacy needs to be thought out and talked about. Intimacy needs to be nurtured and cultivated, designed and developed. I can fall in love. I can fantasize romance. I can’t fall into intimacy. I can’t fantasize intimacy. 

 

Would you like to imagine intimacy? Intimacy that is true, beautiful, and good? Intimacy that is safe or risky, calming or exciting, awake or dreamy, nourishing or hungering?  

 

Soul intimacy requires a conscious will to perceive, to understand and to know the intimate object. How do we go about perceiving, understanding, and knowing? What gets in the way of receiving the gifts of intimacy?

 

Intimacy is a gift. I am reading this brilliant, compelling book, The Gift by Lewis Hyde. He writes... "Where we wish to preserve natural increase, therefore, gift exchange is the commerce of choice, for it is a commerce that harmonizes with, or participates in, the process of that increase. ... increased worth, fertility, liveliness: where true, organic increase is at issue, gift exchange preserves that increase; the gift grows because living things grow." 

 

Intimacy is a living gift that increases the worth, the creativity and the vitality of the relationship and the individuals with every encounter. 

 

I want to help you imagine intimacy. I want to help you get intimate with intimacy. 

 

I have created a short, three part introduction to intimacy. It's a free mini-course at the online Imagine Self Academy. If you haven't already enrolled in the course...Click here to enroll and begin to imagine your experience of intimacy.