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		<title>The Sacred Space</title>
		<link>http://romantictrances.com/2009/07/11/the-sacred-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hinds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a new concept that I have been turning over and over in my soul and mind for several months.  It all began with the Bill Brauer painting &#8220;the Gold Dress&#8221; &#8212; It is a stylized representation of the differing energies of the dance of love: of romance. Why is it the guy is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a new concept that I have been turning over and over in my soul and mind for several months.  It all began with the Bill Brauer painting &#8220;<a href="http://romancecapitol.com/2008/05/04/the-gold-dress-by-bill-brauer-a-romantic-masterpiece/">the Gold Dress</a>&#8221; &#8212; It is a stylized representation of the differing energies of the dance of love: of romance.</p>
<p>Why is it the guy is in the background?  Why not have him as a flamenco peacock?  A dance of equals?  In my review I talked of the supportive role the man had to bring her energies to the front.  That set off a contrast of ideas that I needed to turn over and over to gain a full view of this dance of life.</p>
<p>You see, what the man is providing is the &#8220;sacred space&#8221; &#8212; Sacred,  not so much as in the religious sense,  but as in the sense that it is so precious that it must be protected at all costs, so the space can work it&#8217;s magic.  And what is that magic?</p>
<p>The magic is that the woman can blossom into the fullest realization of her potential.  As she can define it.  But it is not just man an woman, it is power, and beauty: Yang, and Yin.</p>
<p>So what qualities make up this sacred space?  The Yang energy must create it and enlarge it and defend it.  The Yin energy must fill it with the delights of the Yin: the highest refinement of  her energies.  Beauty and richness and grace.  The protection of the yang must surround the space, and may dance within the space, but within that space, the  Yin is allowed, encouraged and nurtured to flourish unrestrained.  Anything less makes it the dank prison and not the sacred space.</p>
<p>It is easy for the dominate energy to turn inward to rule over the space,  but unless that energy enlarges the space and makes is more to the liking of the Yin, it is useless.  This is how many men direct their frustrations with the  world back into their home life, and make the woman a prisoner, a slave.  A truly strong man would  not do that.</p>
<p>Equally sad is when the Yang energy is muted, by job loss, or illness, or emotional exhaustion, and can no longer keep the space pure and open.  The Yin energy is no longer able to be pure Yin,and unless the pair can change over, and allow the  Yin to repair, the dance will dissolve.</p>
<p>Yang!  Be strong: allow your mate the space to grow, and  thrive and blossom.  You will harvest a crop of blessings.  Yin: Take every advantage of the space while it lasts, enjoy it , expand your capabilities, and know you are loved: make the space within a loving nest for your mate to recuperate.</p>
<p>And if, by some sad chance that you need to exchange roles, become as receptive to the needs of the Yang, as it was of yours</p>
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		<title>Without that.  A Valentine Poem</title>
		<link>http://romantictrances.com/2009/01/26/without-that-a-valentine-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hinds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago I put up a love letter for you all to share in on Valentine&#8217;s day. Something that you could send to your lover. Or, short of that &#8212; you could measure the maturity of your love against. Here is a poem that I will send out to the whole world, so [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not so long ago I put up a love letter for you all to share in on Valentine&#8217;s day.  Something that you could send to your lover.  Or, short of that &#8212; you could measure the maturity of your love against.</p>
<p>Here is a poem that I will send out to the whole world, so that you can know what a puppy might hope that love could grow up to be.</p>
<p><strong>Without that!?!</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Without that?!  I must be your lover for all time&#8230;<br />
Knowing your love not in this way will frame my death.</p>
<p>Without that, I must be your love for all time&#8230;<br />
Knowing your love not in this way will mute my senses.</p>
<p>Without that, I must be your best friend for all time&#8230;<br />
Knowing you not in this way will harden my heart.</p>
<p>Without that, I must be your friend for all time&#8230;<br />
Knowing you not in this way will destroy my soul.</p></blockquote>
<p>Happy Valentines Day: There are more searches on Google for Love near Valentines Day, than all the other days of the year!  Valentines Day is truly the day of love.  Let it be so.</p>
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		<title>Hot Hot Hot</title>
		<link>http://romantictrances.com/2007/11/10/hot-hot-hot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hinds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at My Redhead on wordpress.com you will find a celebration of life, love, marriage, and romance. It&#8217;s a blog about an ex-minister&#8217;s ongoing relationship with his gorgeous redhead wife. There is lots to learn here about the ongoing nature of a relationship full of the sweetest kind of romance. There writing style is wonderful. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over at <a href="http://myredhead.wordpress.com/">My Redhead on wordpress.com</a> you will find a celebration of life, love, marriage, and romance.  It&#8217;s a blog about an ex-minister&#8217;s ongoing relationship with his gorgeous redhead wife.  There is lots to learn here about the ongoing nature of a relationship <em>full</em> of the sweetest kind of romance.<br />
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There writing style is wonderful.  Stories full of the moment to moment emotions that fill our lives as we do even the most mundane things: like empty a vacuum cleaner in &#8220;<a href="http://myredhead.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/my-redhead-doesn%E2%80%99t-lose-suction/trackback/">My Redhead Doesn’t Lose Suction</a>&#8220;.</p>
<p>Another post gives us a PG-13 version of the <a href="http://myredhead.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/my-redhead-looks-sexy-in-her-little-red-dress/trackback/">red dress and how it spices up love</a> for this lucky guy. Read it and you will get steaming ideas of your own.  I guarantee it.</p>
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		<title>Hats off to a Genius</title>
		<link>http://romantictrances.com/2007/10/19/hats-off-to-a-genius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hinds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christine Akiteng is a romance coach in Toronto. I&#8217;ve never met her, but I have read some of her powerful articles on romance, relationships and life in general. She is good. With a capitol &#8220;G.&#8221; Her ideas about romance are bold and surprisingly right on. Her writing style is sexy and hot, so hot that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christine Akiteng is a romance coach in Toronto.  I&#8217;ve never met her, but I have read some of her powerful articles on romance, relationships and life in general.  She is good. With a capitol &#8220;G.&#8221;</p>
<p>Her ideas about romance are bold and surprisingly <em>right on</em>.  Her writing style is sexy and hot, so hot that you may not realize just how wise and intelligent it is.  For example: she tells us that there are five different ways to play <a href="http://www.theartofseducingoutoffullness.com/article_right_way_play_hard_to_get.htm">Hard to Get.</a>  You won&#8217;t find a better analysis of it anywhere.  And, you may find out which one of the five that might describe you.  This is an example where you come for  the facts, but stay for the wisdom and insight.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a student of romance, not a master.  If I had to think of someone that I could ask some deep questions about my own relationships, I would call Christine.</p>
<p>You can find out about her at these web sites: <a href="http://www.theartofseducingoutoffullness.com/">The Art of Seducing out of Fullness</a>, <a href="http://www.torontosnumber1datedoctor.com/">Toronto&#8217;s Number 1 Date Doctor</a>, or <a href="http://www.playinghardtogettheloveway.com/">Playing Hard to Get the Love Way</a></p>
<p>If you are having trouble with your partner, and it looks like things are going badly, even to the point of &#8216;no return&#8217;, you might just try her technique of “singing yourselves back to existence.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s worth a try.</p>
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		<title>Love Addictions by Mystikka</title>
		<link>http://romantictrances.com/2006/12/13/love-addictions-by-mystikka/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hinds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to maintain faith in our spiritual power when we find ourselves co-mingled in someone else&#8217;s world, reality, or game. It is a nearly impossible to stay true to ourselves when the illusion of a &#8216;need&#8217; for a relationship in our lives, or a &#8216;need&#8217; for a person, overshadows the NEED for what [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is difficult to maintain faith in our spiritual power when we find ourselves co-mingled in someone else&#8217;s world, reality, or game. It is a nearly impossible to stay true to ourselves when the illusion of a &#8216;need&#8217; for a relationship in our lives, or a &#8216;need&#8217; for a person, overshadows the NEED for what is best for ourselves.</p>
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The kind of passion generated between lovers can be so intense that it becomes intoxicating. Emotional love is a dangerous drug to play with. There ARE consequences when we do not follow the &#8216;rules&#8217; of a healthy relationship.  Emotional love creates illusions of grandeur and conjures up lofty fantasies of easily flowing future bliss with our object of desire. We allow our significant others or potential significant others to fail us when the wishful thinking generated by our fantasies comes head to head with the very different opposing realities and wake up calls of our relationship.</p.</p>
<p>Anything that intoxicates us can harm us. When we are under the influence of our chosen object of desire, our better judgment can become scrambled and blurred by the sensations of our feelings for that person, or our ideas of what that person represents to us.  An addiction to another person is similar to an addiction to alcohol, drugs, sex, shopping, food, or anything that we latch on to for escape from the struggles of everyday life. A deceptive hope of liberation through that person, drug, etc. inspires us, and seductively guides us into further self-destruction. The hope does not ever pan out to be more than a pipe dream, or a mirage, because no object of addiction can truly fulfill us, solve our problems or set us free. An object of addiction leaves us with the feeling of never having, 'enough.'</p>
<p>Anytime a person is addicted to someone or something, they are in bondage. The addict always has an excuse for his or her behavior. Addition does not take responsibility for its existence. Therefore, in denial, we remain enslaved in its clutches, unable to take the first step in recovery, which is admitting to ourselves that we have a problem within ourselves, that we ourselves have been creating.</p>
<p>Addiction will only pull a person deeper into its cunning trap as we feed it. Addiction is a downward spiral that leads into darker and more depressing places. In the later stages of development, it propels the desire in its host to isolate from anything and anyone else that does not support the addiction.</p>
<p>I have never crossed paths with anyone who has not struggled with some form of addiction in their life. Those traveling on a spiritual journey will see the many temptations life presents day in and day out. Each of these moments we are given the opportunity to react addictively to any of the triggers around us. We can give into the mechanism, or we can break the cycle for that individual instance.</p>
<p>Once we understand the problem, we allow ourselves to open up more toward the solution. Please visit my website at http://mystikka.com for information on the next step.</p>
<p>Mystikka is an empathic psychic who has been providing karmic relationship readings since 1993. She can be reached through her website at  <a href="http://mystikka.com/">http://mystikka.com/</a></p>
<p>Article Source: <a href="http://www.articlerich.com">ArticleRich.com</a></p>
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