This video is from the Mindful Relationships Summit.
48:13 min
CLEAR ALL
Sex is not intimacy.
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In long-term relationships, we often expect our beloved to be both best friend and erotic partner. But as Esther Perel argues, good and committed sex draws on two conflicting needs: our need for security and our need for surprise.
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This teaching, from the author of THE BUDDHA WALKS INTO A BAR, asks us to contemplate what it means to bring mindfulness and compassion into the realm of sex and dating.
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Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher walks us through the biology of love. From the importance of one-night stands to the solidity of marriage, Fisher shreds the common wisdom of what love is and isn't in the 21st century.
Learn about the evolution and future of human sex, love, marriage, gender differences in the brain and how your personality type shapes who you are and who you love.
A conversation with the biological anthropologist and Rutgers University professor Helen Fisher
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Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love - and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closes with a warning about the potential disaster inherent in antidepressant abuse.
Author and life coach Tony Gaskins stopped by to talk about leading with love and making love with the mind.
The issue of who shows an interest in having a physical relationship in a couple might be mistaken for rather trivial; after all, what counts is that it happens, not that one or the other party initiates.
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QUESTION: What about the often overlooked issues of Intimacy and Sexuality in our older population? Legacy of Wisdom is a non-profit project dedicated to developing a vision of best practices for living and the fulfillment of our life's potential.