Love, Sex and Your Heart

Love, Sex, & Your Heart elucidates how emotional life and physical beingare one, mutually reflective as two sides of a coin. Emotional life is tied tophysical being and physical health is dependent on emotional well-being.Alexander Lowen’s insi... Read more

Love, Sex, & Your Heart elucidates how emotional life and physical beingare one, mutually reflective as two sides of a coin. Emotional life is tied tophysical being and physical health is dependent on emotional well-being.Alexander Lowen’s insight into these powerful connections offersan innovative approach to cardiovascular health and the treatment ofheart disease.Lowen examines the feeling of love as a physiological process in the body.When this process is frustrated, as in the case of heartbreak or isolation,especially during childhood, people suppress their pain by unconsciouslyrigidifying their chest muscles. This results in a chronic restriction ofbreathing, movement, and feeling. It is this tension that limits pleasure, andpredisposes so many to heart disease.This book features the principles and therapeutic techniques to help peopleunderstand their fear of love, release chronic muscular tension, and becomemore loving. It is essential reading for health professionals and anyoneinterested in the health of the heart. Less