Sentences with phrase «experience of intimacy»

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.

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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.
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