"Once we understand who we are and how our present attitudes about sensuality were formed, we can make changes".

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A guide to rekindle sensual self
By Donna Sommer
Woman Magazine - August 2001

Images can heal & enhance one's natural sensual abilities, can allow the true self to flourish in balance and harmony. Why does sensuality radiate more from one than another?

Jaqueline Lapa Sussman explores this topic of sensuality versus sexuality in her recently published book, Images of Desire: Finding Your Natural Sensual Self in Today's Image-filled Society. Along the way, she devotes much attention to the family and cultural programming that we were exposed to as children.

A psychotherapist who specializes in imagery, she believes there is what she calls a sensual self inside all women and men. It is a birth right and often lost when children are influenced, or shaped, by parents and society. She believes these messages from authority figures in our childhood create images in our minds. These images become programs that run through our minds like film clips.

Sussman presents imaging techniques to replace negative, limiting images with positive ones that permit us to flow with our natural sensuality.

Computer:

By treating the brain like a computer, we can reclaim our original nature through eidetic imaging. She explains that an eidetic image is neither mere memory nor a figment of your imagination. An eidetic is an image recalled from the storage of visions in your mental bank. And, it contains three parts: the image itself, the somatic/emotional response that accompanies it and the meaning revealed by it. "The important thing is that you leave yourself open to see the image, feel the image, and gain insight from it".

Key to Change:

"The key to change", says Sussman, "to achieving our desires, is found internally, in our minds, and in a form that is similar to the fantasy lover we just imagined". Once we understand who we are and how our resent attitudes about sensuality were formed, we can make changes.

New eidetic images can heal and enhance one's natural sensual abilities, can allow the true self to flourish in balance and harmony with the world, fee of the false images imposed by society or family.

This book provides eidetic imagery techniques which utilize our natural images encoded in the brain. Sussman believes the affirming images have been buried with false images.

Images of Desire includes an in-depth guide to uncover the layers of personal history - a failed marriage, relationships that didn't work out, and messages from our parents about how good girls are expected to behave.

Images of Aphrodite and Zeus embrace archetypical themes of beauty and power. By releasing repression of the sensual self, Sussman says that you reignite your passion - and enjoy sex even after the Big M(enopause).

By creating a freer sensual and therefore sexual self image we are able to show our genuine emotions - joy, sensual pleasure, love and passion.

The book serves as a guide to help women and men to abolish hindering self-images and provide methods that enable readers to work with their own healer from within.