Mark Whitwell - The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy: How a Simple Breathing Practice Will Enrich Your Life Forever

You can change your life in just seven minutes a day...

A soft message for a hard time, The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy is a simple yet profound solution to the cause of all human discontent: the lack of intimacy, especially sexual intimacy. Even amidst the plethora of techniques now available for so-called enlightenmentfrom meditation and visualization to intensive prayer retreats or obsessive exercise regimensthe need for intimacy has been left unsatisfied.

Requiring just seven minutes a day, the practice taught in this bookcalled Your Seven-Minute Wonderanswers that need by opening the body and psyche to gratifying levels of personal and sexual intimacy. It is the practical means that allows you to tangibly realize your ideals and inherent perfection. Renowned teacher Mark Whitwell, who has spent a lifetime studying the secrets of life with the great masters, has seen through to the heart of their understanding, and created a simple way for readers to acquire it for themselves.

Your Seven-Minute Wonder is a physical practicea combination of healthful breathing sustained by synchronistic body movement. Its purpose is to be uplifting and totally functional: a dynamic interflow of inspiration or inhalation (receptivity), with the expression or exhalation (strength). This in-and-out breathing cycle, which Mark carefully delineates, activates the deep male-female polarity within each of us, regardless of gender.

The practice is effortless for everyone, and practitioners report that their well-being, vitality, sexuality, self-awareness, and true desires are awakened immediately and dramatically. It restores health and dignity, and sex becomes utterly relevant to a graceful life. Further, as you become receptive to your breaththe basis of all human functionyou become responsive to money, power, and collaboration of all sorts. The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy is a wise, powerful, and easy-to-follow roadmap to a practice that can be life-changing: one that promises to open you up to an entirely new level of human understanding.

Advance praise for Mark Whitwell and The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy

Mark Whitwell offers readers a sensitive and very inspiring approach to a topic that matters to everyone. This is a lovely book.
Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit

Inhale the wisdom of this book, and exhale its practices into the sacredness of your everyday activities.
Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberation

Now in seven simple minutes you can transform your breath, your mind, your love, your intimacy and certainly your sex life.
Dr. John Demartini, author of The Heart of Love

Whitwells teachings are a path not just to greater intimacy in relationships, but also to a greater intimacy with all of life.
Larry Dossey, MD, author of Reinventing Medicine

Indeed a soft message for a hard time... God is in this moment. God is as close as your own breath. So be here now! Mark will show you an easy way.
Ram Dass, author of Be Here Now

Seven minutes to a new you! Kudos to Mark for this intimate step to love and sex! Intimacy and sex should indeed be synonymous.
C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD, author of Energy Medicine

Mark Whitwell has enjoyed a lifelong relationship with many of the worlds greatest known and unknown masters. As a scholar of their teachings and traditions, he has been able to synthesize the most relevant messages to bring forth a renewed collaboration of wisdom and practice that is complete for contemporary life. The author and editor of earlier titles on the great traditions, Mark offers The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy as an easily accessible summary of his work.

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Praise for Mark Whitwell and The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy

In his book, Mark shares the importance of breathing to energize ourselves. Breathe and let go. Read this book.

Deepak Chopra

An incredible business tool that has given me financial, emotional, and spiritual freedom. [Your Seven-Minute Wonder] will give you the feeling of intimacy with life and ones principal relationships.

Rinaldo S. Brutoco, founding president & CEO, World Business Academy

I have prescribed Marks seven-minute breathing and movement routine to hundreds of my patients, who have reported a renaissance of energy in their lives, while experiencing deeper sleep, a stronger body composition, more vitality, less depression, and an astonishingly improved sensuality and sex drive.

Prudence Hall, MD, founder, Hall Center Venice

Mark offers us a simple, self-respecting practice that gives astounding results. To trust breath as the source of life gives powerful intimacy to self and others.

Jackie Mills, group fitness director, Les Mills International

A great gift. I do it every day. Its the perfect way to begin anewbringing everyone to a beautiful beginning with each day, each breath, closer to God, to source, to life.

Richard Baskin, executive director, Urban Zen Integrative Therapy Programs

Mark helps us to realize genuine love, sex, and intimacy with Your Seven-Minute Wonder. The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy helps us to have an intimate connection to what this precious life has to offer, and practicing it can transform your life from inside out.

Kiyoshi Suzaki, author of Results from the Heart , foreword by the Dalai Lama

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