These basic psychological needs are the following: a) the need for competence (referring to feeling effective in carrying out activities), b) the need for autonomy (denoting experience of choice and psychological freedom), and c) the need for relatedness (referring to
the experience of intimacy and warmth).
This detailed and practical resource presents a compelling vision of God's intentions for lovemaking that will foster a deeper
experience of intimacy at every level in your marriage.
Participants say they enjoy being with other couples who are serious about improving their marriage and have taken time from their busy schedules to make
their experience of intimacy and connection a top priority.
Broaden
your experience of intimacy together by sharing quiet moments of meditation, conversation - based dates, or beautiful adventures that connect you with something beyond one another.
Emin has always been inspired by expressionist painters Edvard Munch and Egon Schiele (evident in her Diploma Work Trying to Find You, although it is also explicitly feminist.Viewing her work generates
a experience of intimacy as a result of Emin's emotional honesty.
People may be longing for
an experience of intimacy.
Cultivation of the quality of presence is essential for
the experience of intimacy.
Some of the mystery in
the experience of intimacy has been put into words by Gibran in his essay «On Friendship»:
For the most mystical of Pentecostals, the height of spirituality is an ineffable, ecstatic
experience of intimacy with God.
Here are the words of Jeeney Ray, (8) a spastic girl who is an orphan and who has had few
experiences of intimacy in her life time.
New
experiences of intimacy are a continual challenge.
The act of bonding between parent and baby is vital for development of the baby's self - confidence, sense of safety, and
experiences of intimacy and affection.
Learn skills to better understand and respect one another, be able to reach toward each other for love and support, have fulfilling
experiences of intimacy and connection, and create a life that represents each of you and both of you.
Not exact matches
Hygge is sometimes translated as «cozy,» but a better definition
of hygge is «intentional
intimacy,» which can happen when you have safe, balanced and harmonious shared
experiences.
You can not effectively produce products, services, and
experiences that solve your customers» problems like none other without having a deep degree
of intimacy with them.
I have been enlightened by the life and wisdom
of Gandhi, but I have not
experienced intimacy with God through the Hindu Tradition, although I recognize that Krishna is a Christ figure and have no doubt that there are Hindus that have spiritually
experienced the
intimacy with God that I as a Christian have
experienced.
She gives us that
experience of grounding,
intimacy, tenderness, and safety that most
of us hope for from God.
It's almost like we looked around and said, «Well, marriage is really difficult, and a lot
of folks never
experience intimacy, joy or happiness in their marriages, so let's just tell them marriage is supposed to make them holy instead.»
This involves the cultivation
of a sense
of closeness to God,
experience of the Spirit, and
intimacy with Christ.
With only three characters in the Old Testament are prayers like this associated — Moses, (Exodus 5:22 - 23; Numbers 11:11 - 15) Job, (Job 10:2 - 21; 13:24 - 14:6) and Jeremiah — and in each case not doubt but assurance
of God is in the background, and the very
intimacy with which the soul bares its complaints and carries on its struggle in prayer is testimony to the utter genuineness
of the
experience.
Some couples discover that, if they try, they can increase the points at which they have connections with each other, thus broadening the range
of their
intimacy experiences.
Or if you were witness to that lovable young man's beautiful enthusiasm when he read and heard
of the great men who fought with a heavy destiny and suffered badly in the world, the glorious ones whom earth renounced because it was not worthy
of them, would you dare, when no clamor caused your speech to wander but when the stillness
of intimacy,
of the lovable one's confidence, the in
experience of the young man, all obliged you to tell the truth; at such a time would you dare lay your hand on your heart and say, «Such things no longer happen.
Sometimes social media allows us to «connect» with people for the sake
of connecting rather than for the sake
of living — gratifying an urge inside
of us momentarily, while preventing us from
experiencing true
intimacy in its most fulfilling context: real life.
Further, in the
intimacy of the bhakti relationship the male bhakta, by
experiencing himself as female partner violates his primal sexual demarcation as a male.
By straddling the fence, the friends with benefits relationship destroys our ability to
experience true
intimacy within the context
of a friendship and robs us
of the joy
of engaging in a healthy romantic relationship.
He will examine the role
of intimacy to the first, second, and third power (examples: the circle
of Jesus» followers, the renewed
intimacy on the basis
of the
experience of the sixteenth century Reformers, the Pietist group
of the seventeenth century, etc.) As far as the constitution
of religious groups is concerned we find a variety
of principles.
Work at gradually releasing the children into their own orbits by continuing to strengthen
intimacy through a variety
of experiences as man and wife as well as mother and father.
Out
of the many occasions for sharing in the early stages
of intimacy there gradually develops a community
of experience which sets that marriage apart from the rest
of the world and produces the «we - ness»
of the marriage identity.
This dawning
experience can make the second stage
of intimacy wonderful and lively in spite
of the inevitable stress.
The firm sense
of personal identity which is a prerequisite for
intimacy in marriage and sexual relationships, is also strengthened and affirmed by
experiences of interacting constructively with a person
of the complementary sex.
In this deep sharing, they may
experience a kind
of intimacy which is closer than sex — a touching
of souls.
«Sexual
intimacy» is meant here to encompass the total
experience of man and woman loving each other.
The very intensity
of the
experience of childbirth and its sequelae tend to pull attention away from the companion - ship -
intimacy activities
of the couple.
Although they may choose such acts as means
of experiencing personal
intimacy, the resulting
experience is not and can not be the
experience of any real unity between them; it is not and can not be the
experiencing of a common good attained in and through an act
of bodily union.
It has been known and
experienced in the lives
of countless happily married couples across the millennia, and perhaps nowhere more than in marriages lived under the banner
of Christianity, whose Founder pronounced the
intimacy of man and wife to be a blessed thing.
The yearning for completion, for acceptance, for oneness with some «other» expressed in biblical images, Bible stories, in relational theology, and in hymns can reveal the inner connection between the
experience of physical longing for union and the search for
intimacy with God.
People who
experience intimacy with God through the church are capable
of deeper relationships with friends and family.
They may not have personal
experience of what other Christians mean when they talk about «friendship with God,» or
of «
intimacy through mutual ministry in the church.»
When we measure our
experience against the promised possibility
of intimacy offered in the New Covenant, we do not feel embraced in such
intimacy, but consigned to disobedience.
I suggest that sexual intensity (such as that
experienced between the lead characters
of the «Fifty Shades» trilogy) is simply not the same as
intimacy.
The group succeeded in reaching a feeling level, discussing such matters as their perceptions
of each other, feelings about having children as this relates to marital
intimacy, and the grief
experience of one member.
The need for a sense
of spiritual
intimacy includes the need for a sense
of «at - homeness» in the universe, and a deeply
experienced feeling
of what Erik Erikson calls «basic trust.»
Erikson describes the union
of personalities which is
intimacy when he defines love as «The mutuality
of mates and partners in a shared identity, for the mutual verification through an
experience of finding oneself, as one loses oneself in another.»
Sharing in such
experiences of meaning and dedication adds a dimension
of height and breadth to the
intimacy of marriage.
Thus concludes the account
of one couple's thoughts and
experiences with the many - faceted diamond
of intimacy — an account unfinished as our journey to
intimacy is unfinished.
For in our earlier years we
experienced both the
intimacy and the distance
of our relation with the earth and with the entire natural world.
Experience of Spirit provides such transforming
intimacy with God in Christ that seeing the glory
of God, the believer is effective in witness and unshakable in persecution (7:54 - 60).47 The Spirit accounts for making joy and praise the dominant moods
of the Christian life (2:47; 3:8 - 9; 4:21; 5:41; 13:52).
In this new
intimacy the support and direction that mission requires become the common everyday
experience of one who practices the presence
of God.
In the
experience of Spirit
intimacy, the form is Christ's.
This
experience was the beginning
of both parent - child and marital
intimacy for Billy and his family.