YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/FINDING OUT WHO’S THE MATTER WITH US: COLD SEXUAL PROBLEMS – ABSENCE OF PSYCHASMS
I don’t feel like I really have an intense emotional experience. I don’t feel like I have really gotten into and out of something.
It seems like my body comes but I don’t.
The first report is from a wife, the second a husband. Absence of psychasms, that is, an absence of the alteration of conscious and emotional experience through intimate bodily contact with someone else, is related to both hot and cold times, for unless we are in balance in our lives, we are not free to enjoy a variety of consciousness experiences. To do so, we may turn to drugs to help us accomplish such uplifting and mind-altering experiences, but drugs never really work. Only through intimacy and spiritual development can we really transcend the material, physical limitations of day-to-day life. The 881 men and 492 women who had trouble with psychasm were equally distributed in their hot and cold orientations to life both in my sample and in their own daily lives, running both hot and cold at various times.
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