Category Archives: Suzie Heumann’s Blog

Re-Wilding Your Life

If your cultural and family views didn’t hold so much weight, you might experience more freedom in your life to have the kind of love, sex and open-hearted intimacy that you really, in your heart of hearts, know is possible. You might have even experienced the essence of this a few times in your life. Profound changes might occur in the world if each of us could express ourselves with full freedom, boundaries included, and exist in a more ‘wild’ environment of our own creation… Continue reading

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Valentines: On The Importance Of Sensate Focus On Awareness (Video)

I’m lying on the beach at Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawai’i. This beach and the one just to the South of it, Hapuna, vie for the distinction of being the most beautiful beaches in all of the United States (Conde Nast Traveler). Of course it would be difficult not to feel as though you were in Heaven here. The breeze, the sun, the just right ocean, the soft waves and the fact that you are probably on vacation if you’re here, all add up to a wonderful experience. Continue reading

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Sex Dreams: The Difference Between Men And Women

How often does, say, George Clooney show up in my dreams, or for that matter in any woman’s dreams? Of course, I’m specifically referring to sexual dreams. Unfortunately we don’t have any research that tells us about good old George and thee but we do have some hints about the content of sexual dreams nevertheless. Continue reading

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Achieving Natural Sleep

Sleep is an issue with many of us, especially as we age. Blame it on stress, menopause and hectic lives. Whatever the reasons, we don’t get enough quality sleep. This leads to chronic sleepiness, edginess, lack of resiliency and can significantly reduce our brain function and experiences in the world. It is mostly a phenomenon of modern, Western Man. Continue reading

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Sex And The Memory of Sexual Experience

Recent scientific research is beginning to investigate the relationships between experience and the memories of experience. Researchers are seeing that certain areas of the brain light up depending on the thoughts, actions and experiences of a person. Detailed maps of the brain now exist for the repeated patterns that we human’s experience. There are precise regions of the brain that light up when we see our child or grandchild. Everyone has similar patterns with slight variations that depend on how you feel about that child or grandchild. The rush of ‘love’ chemicals; dopamine, oxytocin, endorphins, opiates and other neurotransmitters, fill our body and brain quickly to produce the incredible feelings of love and attachment that are involved in the profound moment when that child’s eyes light up upon seeing you and hugging you. Continue reading

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Partner As Guru: Relationship As An Evolutionary Tool (VIDEO)

I had an agenda. I wanted him to love me unconditionally because I felt that I had loved him that way for many years and he hadn’t reciprocated the way I wanted him to. This is unconditional? Obviously this isn’t the way to heal from whatever it was that caused me to even think I could get what every woman (and man for that matter) fantasizes about and thinks they want – pure devotion. Ah…
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Studying Love Instead Of War — What If?

Do you remember the old folk ballad Down By the River Side – The one that has the line “I ain’t gonna study war no more”? What if everyone studied Love instead? What would life be like if we humans had made a turn, somewhere deep in the past, that lead us down a path of love instead of fear and hate? Would we have been much more careful about population explosion, hunger, abuse, control issues and infanticide? Would we have cared for those we did have and cherished and cared for the earth in better ways? Would there be no ‘us and them’ in this scenario? Continue reading

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Spiritual Sex: Holiday Celebrations For Couples

You’re in it now or in the planning stages. The next few weeks are going to be busy, to say the least. Keeping your sanity might mean taking a bit of time to focus on your relationship. Celebrating yourselves in a new way might make all the difference in great holiday memories and help to mellow you out, too. Continue reading

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Add Intensity To Life: Pay Attention (VIDEO)

Research in the past few years is confirming that practices like meditation improve not only focus and attention but that it improves cognition, also. This is not only true of those practiced at meditation but of those new to the practice, too. A study reported in June of 2007 from researchers Amishi Jha and Michael Baime of the University of Pennsylvania found that mediation changes the way the brain works at the level of attention, the ability to prioritize, manage tasks and goals, focus on specific information and stay alert in whatever environment a person might find themselves in. Research has also found that improving attention makes whatever you are experiencing seem more intense… Continue reading

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Enlightened Sex: Women’s Tantric Breathing And Orgasm (Video)

Each of us is responsible for our own pleasure. Blaming your partner isn’t going to get you very far. Knowing your own body and the sexual stimuli you desire is of the utmost importance. But there is another thing a woman can do to advocate for her sexual focus and presence. It will increase the blood flow to her extremities (think clitoris, G-spot and pelvic area) and help her focus her mind on sexual turn-on and the stimulus she is receiving. That ‘thing’ is breathing… Continue reading

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