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Anyone who has run a marathon knows about commitment. To compete, the athlete relies on extensive training and physical fitness. But when the initial enthusiasm wanes and the painful, long-distance realities grip the runner's body, it is sheer dedication--commitment to completing what she ...

Passion is energizing and inspiring, a great big wonderful “YES!” that fills life with a sense of greatness and purpose. When you have passion, life is fun and juicy. In relationship, passion is a deeply affirmative force. When there’s passion--for one another, for spending time together, for ...

It is an unfortunate fact that in numerous cases in life, the only thing holding people back is themselves. The most successful people in the world are those that exude confidence. By presenting yourself in a professional, assured manner, you are far more likely to gain the respect of your peers, leading to better career opportunities, better social lives, and more. So why should anyone hold themselves back with personal insecurities and inhibitions? Even the shyest person ca

I am writing this article with the intention of helping the reader understand one of the least talked about subjects: The Innocence of Sex.

Most of us believe that we want to have a loving and intimate relationship with a significant other. But we may not realize what that actually means. We may not be ready to deal with and reveal our own inner demons, those parts of our self that cause us to feel hurt, insecure, ashamed and embarrassed. We may not be willing to accept those insecurities and unpleasant personality traits and actions in our so-called intimate partner. We may prefer to live in the illusion that th

To rekindle a relationship when it has become stagnant is very important. Let’s face it. It takes a lot of time and emotional involvement to start a relationship. Do you remember how much quality time you dedicated to the relationship? How you used to dress up for each other and take time out of your even then busy schedule to talk, to go out on dates, and to make love.

Ladies, you can find a bunch of tips out there on the internet on pleasing your boyfriend and being a better girlfriend for him, but most of the advice out there is missing the essence. You have to focus on pushing the right buttons in your boyfriends mind so that he'll literally go mad of excitement once he orgasms. As a result, your boyfriend will love more than ever. So, here are the 5 things you should to that can literally blow his mind if you do them right. 1. Get naugh

Relationships are all about closeness. Taking the risk to open your heart and letting your partner know the real you is the most profound type of sharing. This level of intimacy can be emotionally and spiritually rejuvenating. A healthy relationship is like a high-wire circus act. Lean too far ...

Finding a mate is one of the most fundamental aspects of life, but it is also a problem many people struggle with. Here are the ten biggest mistakes men make with women. Mistake #1: Pursuing women. Most guys will try all kind of things to get women, such as subtly hanging around a cute girl, walking across the bar to talk to a hot girl, trying to be funny and interesting enough to keep a girl's attention, trying to get a girl's phone number, or simply wishing to be with the girl next to them.

Do you want to learn how get a guy literally addicted to you? No problem. You can do it, all you need is the right information. I've been with more women than I can remember, and I'm not telling you this to brag. I don't care if you believe me or not, I just want to help you become more attractive to your guy. Take the following tips with an open mind and you'll easily get any guy to want you like never before. 1. Do what other women will not. rnIt's not that hard to get a gu

In this busy age when we’re always pressed for time, people have forgotten what it’s like to touch each other just for the pleasure of it. Even if that opportunity arises, the tendency is to get caught up over ejaculatory orgasms. Admittedly, ejaculatory orgasm produces intense pleasure, but unless it is built up slowly with conscious touch it is more like a sneeze in the groin, a release of built up tension, than a deeply satisfying experience that “makes love grow” (love making).

Are you ready for the understatement of the year? Here it is: Kids will make your second marriage a complicated and challenging experience. The reason is clear: In most circumstances, children do not want their parents to divorce. Therefore, the idea of you meeting someone new and finding ...

If you think intimacy means having a sexual relationship like most people do, then learning the true definition of intimacy will help you in all of your relationships. The very high percentage of failed relationships is due in large part to a lack of understanding of what true intimacy is. Intimacy is sharing your thoughts, feelings and needs with your friends, and also sharing your body with your partner. When you share your thoughts, your feelings, your needs and your body with your partner, hopefully, you are creating a warm, close and loving connection that will last forever.

One of the biggest problems in relationships is the lack of a true connection. What is a true connection? It is a desire to be with someone, because you want to share yourself with them and you want them to share themselves with you, too. A true connection is what intimacy is all about. The experience of sharing is so gratifying that you look forward to being with each other.

If you are committed to finding true love or keeping your love relationship alive and well, you will need to overcome your fear of opening up so you can create true intimacy. Why is opening up so important? Relationships are based on the commonalities you have with your partner and your acceptance of any differences.

When you feel anxious, you may not have a way to calm down, and you may be terrified that your anxiety will also trigger a panic attack. An overactive nervous system is causing your anxiety and panic attacks if you are experiencing them when you are truly safe. The reason you feel anxiety in safe situations, is because something you are seeing, hearing, smelling, or feeling in that moment reminds you of a past abuse, loss or trauma.

Loving yourself 100% is the best way to deal with life’s stresses. The stresses of the 21st century are now making this a goal we all must achieve. Why? Because stress is caused by the collision of the pressure to do something and negative beliefs we hold about ourselves. When you are overly stressed, your desire and ability to be intimate may be greatly affected. You may become over reactive to your partner or you may withdraw. In either case, you and your partner will suffer. It's time to reduce your emotional stress by falling madly in love with yourself.

Animal magnetism refers to a person's sexual attractiveness or authentic charisma. Simply put, the better a person feels about himself, the better people feel around him, which creates a magnetic presence. The controversy with science is about whether this is due to body language, voice tone and language or whether there is an level of communication that goes beyond body language through a magnetic fluid. Science tends to view humans as isolated systems, to which the empirical law of conservation of energy applies.

When we create life in a Tantric space of merging – with connected, loving, expanded lovemaking - we can conceive a baby that feels loved even in the womb. Goddess, in her infinite wisdom, decided to join pleasure and creation together. When two people, joined in love, move and expand their sexual energy until all the cells of their body vibrate with a powerful mixture of sex and spirit, they can reach the highest level of ecstasy.

Gay male couples feel a lot of pressure to remain sexually fresh, new, and exciting. That’s the popular stereotype. “All gay men love sex and have it a lot” trumpets the popular press. “If I were gay,” straight men joke, “I would be having sex all the time with my partner! Guys always want it!” ...

Q: I've heard therapists say that a male adult who sexually abuses a boy isn't necessarily ‘homosexual.' This seems confusing: If he isn't homosexual, then why would he sexually molest boys, instead of girls? A: This is a very good question, and there are several ways to respond to it. First, ...

Time and time again, people tell me they are not experiencing real intimacy in their relationships. Sex? Yes. True intimacy? No. They long for a soul connection, a deep, tender love, a satisfying and fulfilling sexual love. They long for a deeper level of communication, not just the chatter of everyday life.nnSeeking CommunionnnHuman beings are hardwired to seek a deep love connection with another human being. I call this deep level of connection we all seek “communion.”

This empowering book provides 10 positive steps gay men can take to identify and overcome self-defeating behaviors and move toward a healthier and more rewarding life. These steps have proved invaluable to the hundreds of gay men Joe Kort has helped in his 16 years of individual, couples, and ...This empowering book provides 10 positive steps gay men can take to identify and overcome self-defeating behaviors and move toward a healthier and more rewarding life.

Tantra wants you to have pleasure and guides you to have the Divine pleasure of merging the male and female energies into One. It uses this pleasure to bring more joy and light into your life. If you are living a disconnected life, you will experience the opposite – being separated from your Divine connection saps your vitality and joy. I’m sure you have experienced that when you are afraid, ashamed, or doing something out of habit, you feel low energy and are unenthusiastic.

Does it seem like every time you start to get close to your partner, she or he finds a way to prevent you from connecting on a deeper level? If so, your partner may be struggling with fear of intimacy. WHAT IS INTIMACY? In order to understand fear of intimacy, it is necessary to understand what defines intimacy. As reported by Miodrag Popovic (2005), the word intimacy originates "from the Latin term ‘intimus’ which means ‘innermost’ and refers to sharing what is inmost with

I lost the parent lottery. My mother was verbally abusive and my father threatened my life for 18 years. I am one of the happiest people you will ever meet today, and I am excited to be telling you how you can transform your life too. You can have true love or find true love and success in everything you do in life, if you will give yourself permission to love yourself. Intimacy in all of your relationships is only possible if you love yourself.

What motivates someone to listen to another person? Understanding this question will help you work toward more effective listening in your own marriage or relationship. 1. Clear message, favorable outcome Clearly communicating your needs is the foundation of effective communication and a ...

Couples often seek out my relationship help or marriage advice because of difficulties with intimacy—they no longer feel a deep emotional connection with their spouse/partner. Why are so many couples struggling with emotional intimacy? In order to experience the gifts of emotional intimacy, you need to share the deepest parts of yourself with your partner while maintaining a separate sense of self (without losing your identity).

Have you had good enough love in your life? So much depends upon your earliest years be4efore your conscious memory has developed. What you experienced way back when can determine how you give and receive love - for the rest of your life - unless you make a concerted conscious effort to study the process of loving and bnbeing loved. A prominent medical doctor, Dr. Dean Ornish, wrote a book in the 1990's called Love and Survival. He says that without love, connection, and int

The answer should be an unconditional, “yes!” But you may not know that, because you don't love yourself, or you may answer yes, but still find yourself having great difficulties finding love or keeping love alive. Instead of truly being open to being loved, you may be feeling like the only way you can feel good about yourself is if someone loves you. If this is the case, you are suffering from a lack of nurturing during your childhood. You are really looking for a nurturing parent, because you lacked one as a child.

Marriage therapists estimate as many as 20 percent of couples are in a low-sex or sexless marriage in the USA. To my surprise, often enough it’s the men, heterosexual men, who don’t want sex with their spouse. How many times do you hear about a woman complaining about her sexless marriage? Not So Much. For most women it’s very hard to talk about their husband not wanting to be intimate with them anymore. Women tend to take this personally and think that there is something wr

You don't wake up one day and decide to have an affair. You're more likely to gradually enter into the arena of emotional infidelity—and many couples are surprised to discover that this slippery slope begins long before a physical affair is underway. Why is this? Someone starting an ...

Aggressive women can have that certain effect with us men - they can turn our calm nerves into one raging, never-ending war of nerves that will keep us going all night long. So here comes the big question: does she want to sleep with you? Is she hiding codes that will make us realize that she finally wants to have sex? Reading a woman's body language is an art but sure is a big tricky to decode. How do we crack it? Here are the secrets to finally have her to bed with you toni

The biggest obstacle to intimacy is fear of rejection. If fear of rejection is blocking intimacy for you, then you may be feeling very lonely. I know you desire the deeply fulfilling experience of being close, but your fear of being rejected is too strong to allow you to open up and truly share yourself with a potential partner. Emotional intimacy may be a dream of yours, and that makes alot of sense. Sharing who you are, being seen and known by another, and sharing love and laughter together is soul satisfying.

There is a widespread idea in the self-development and spiritual communities that you should focus only on what you want to create and turn your attention away from the obstacles. I was reading The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles which is really a brilliant book published in 1910. He mentions that you should focus your unwavering thoughts on what you want to create and let the challenges and negative things become obsolete and disappear by themselves. This is something to be very careful about.

The Four Noble Truths are concepts derived from Buddhist philosophy - simploe yet profound principles to live by. Once we truly understand these principles, we can truly live in the moment, each moment. We can more readily accept whatever life is offering us, find the joy wherever we can, forgive more easily, and let go more often. You do not have to be a practicing Buddhist, but for me, these concepts have a real calming effect, helping me to step back from my life and obse

Keeping the passion high in any relationship depends a lot on how safe you make it for your partner to say the truth to you. We like to say we want to hear the truth, “even if it hurts us,” but actually we often act in ways that make it difficult or even impossible to do that. If you tend to cut off or interrupt your partner when they are talking, they may feel you don’t care what they have to say. If you are always very neutral in your expression and your response, they may feel you feel their ideas are unimportant, or boring.

Are you ready for love? Are you willing to take responsibility for co-creating the love relationship you desire? One of the ten Biblical commandments is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." I would like to expand that notion. Have you ever done for a friend or a loved one exactly what you would have liked him or her to do for you - and - not only ddi they not appreciate it but they didn't even like it. And you felt hurt, rejected, and unappreciated. Perhaps y

We are all connected and all part of the universe and the Kingdom of God. We create our reality and bring about our good fortune by the way we respond and naturally affect the responses of others. In fact, we are all basically seeking to return to the realization of who we are, a magnificent manifestation of God’s creation.” If this is true, and I believe it is, then why don't we always recognize that we are connected and live accordingly? Why don't we always value our broth

Many couples lack some basic courtesies needed to build intimacy in marriage. Rudeness, careless words, disrespect for one's spouse, criticisms, public embarrassment do not portray politeness. Before the wedding, most singles ensure they are courteous as they put their partner ahead of their desires. They are consumed by the passion to make their intended spouse feel good about them. Once the ceremony is over, courtesy dwindles until mutual honour and respect is annihilated.

Article: Written by Renee L Richardson Do You See the Real Me? Using the Objective Eye When we become attracted to someone, do we really see them or are we seeing what we perceive? When dealing with perceptions, we must keep in mind that such is based on a variety of processes of which are connected to our surrounding world as well as our past experiences/belief systems. In addition, the process of our perceptions is often confusing in that we can sometimes struggle with di

You have the power to change your mood at this very moment—to increase your optimism, elevate your energy and enthusiasm, and increase your motivation toward reaching your personal goals. How is this possible? By sowing the seeds of gratitude. Research shows that when you increase feelings of ...

Having a healthy attitude towards lovemaking makes all the difference to the experience. You can be in exactly the same lovemaking position as someone else but ultimately it’s the mind that creates the experience. If the mind is saying: ‘I wish this would finish’, you may have some sort of resistance to pleasure from past conditioning or experience. If the past was all positive then how could the most sensitive part of the body, with the most nerve endings, not be givin

Believe it or not, there are actually certain things that make a woman uncontrollably attracted to a man. And to tell you frankly, it's more than just the good looks and money. That's right. It's much much more than that. You don't have to go lengths, break a leg or pop a vein to seduce her actually --- it all starts with yourself. As long as you're confident and believe that you can actually be one hot babe magnet, then you will be! Positive thoughts create positive aura ---

Introductionr Kegel exercise got it’s named after Dr. A old Kegel (A old H. Kegel M.D., F.A.C.S. (1894–1981), he was a gynecologist who invented the Kegel exercises as non-surgical treatment of genital relaxation. Kegel exercise consists of contracting and relaxing the muscles that form part of the pelvic floor. The pelvic floor is a "hammock" of muscles that hold the pelvic organs in place. The pelvic floor muscles are located between your legs, and run from your pubic bone

Phone Sex and Sexting have become a huge part of our society over the past decade. It has become such commonplace among young adults that no one is surprised when they run across sexually explicit material on another person's smartphone. They most likely do not even think twice about it. Older adults would probably cringe at the site of such images. Welcome to the new more sexually open generation where sexting is considered cool. Unfortunately, with this increase in free s

A healthy sex life is just as important as other aspects of your life. In our pursuit of living balanced lives too often sex is not factored into the equation. We have a tendency to focus on careers, business, finances, and the daily To-Do lists. With so much going on every day it is easy to put our love lives on the back burner, neglecting our partners and even our own needs.nnSex is not just for procreation. Sex is a beautiful experience with many unspoken built in benefits

When you and your spouse/partner are locked in cycles of conflict, you probably assume you have nothing in common—especially during those times when your husband seems to shutdown emotionally and withdraw from you. However, the likelihood is that you and your mate share common threads in all that fighting—those commonalities are just going unrecognized.

When you consider what your relationship needs, consider the laws of gravity. An object that is set in motion will continue to move, unless something stands in its way. On the flip side, a motionless object will never move unless something acts upon it. Your relationship or marriage will remain ...

I was reading David Deida's book The Way of the Superior Man and he was saying that masculinity seeks freedom and femininity seeks love. Later I was doing Natural Grounding. Then BANG it hit it like a brick on the head! Actually it was my hands that made the sound on my forehead. Masculinity is to follow a life purpose. Femininity is to fully live the present moment.

Men, Marriage & Emotions As a marriage/couples counselor, I often witness the emotional mismatch men and women struggle with when it comes to the world of feelings: For women, feelings are the pathway to emotional intimacy; closeness and connection are achieved by acknowledging and sharing what is felt. Feelings are something to be experienced, shared and, at times, savored with one another. For men, requests to acknowledge and integrate feelings into their life and relationships place them in unwelcome territory. Here are two possible reasons for this struggle:

Q: "I'm getting married in a month and want to know why so many marriages end in divorce. What should I look out for? How can I prevent divorce?" ~Sandra, Houston TX A: Understanding why a marriage or relationship might fail can alert couples to their own unique relationship vulnerabilities. These are not meant to be doom-and-gloom predictions about anyone's marriage, but rather information to help you identify potential marriage problems that can arise and that should be addressed. Let's look at five reasons why a marriage or relationship might not survive.

When it comes to building a healthy marriage/relationship, one of the best resources is to hear from couples who have been together for many years and, most importantly, would do it all over again with the same person. In the marriage/relationship enrichment workshops I run, there are often couples who meet this very criterion. Here are some of the important marriage/relationship advice tips these couples have shared: 1. It's not just about communication.

We are all embedded in a continuous stream of experience—an endless current that is too expansive to for us to take in all the information at once. One function of the mind is to help you deal with this vastness: To select, order and ultimately, create meaning out of all the life that surrounds you. This filtering of experience has great significance for your marriage/relationship.

When speaking of honesty, I am referring to honesty with your partner and being honest with yourself. Let's first talk about being honest with you. People enter into relationships for a variety of different reasons. Some do it because they enjoy the companionship while others work better in life when they feel as if they are on a team. Some jump into relationships because they feel that is what is expected of them. No matter what your reason, you must be willing to take an ho

When couples come to me for help, the first thing I do is observe how they communicate with each other. Communication is often the gauge of the health of a relationship. There are certain effective communication principles that can help you create a more harmonious marriage or relationship; and certain styles of communication have been linked to relationship and marital problems. When couples seek marriage help and relationship advice, they are often locked in ineffective communication patterns that have spiraled out of control.

The Twilight Fervor The Twilight fervor seems to be heating up again with the release of the next movie in the Twilight saga. What isn't being talked about though is its potentially negative effects on relationships. After seeing this disturbing Twilight parody music video, and hearing about "Twilight Moms" and such on Oprah, it seemed necessary to comment on the Twilight phenomenon, and it's detrimental effects on marriages.

The sex usually starts off great. It’s fresh, it’s exciting and you worship your partner. Why then does this excitement fade away? Why does the sex and the relationship fade out over time? Well, there are many reasons but keeping your sex life healthy is all about self growth. As a guy, the real challenge is to last longer in bed. In fact the number one reason why women are unfulfilled sexually is simply because guys have the “hit and run” mentality. Here are 3 great tips to

I came to realize that talking about femininity really triggered many women's defenses. This really wasn't my intention. My intention is to empower you so that you can live the way you truly desire. I came to realize that there are lots of ideas and stigmas related to femininity which distort the message. To rectify this miscommunication, let's talk about the unshakable power of femininity.

"I'm tired of feeling alone in my marriage." ~Christian, married three years Often times, when couples complain about a break down in communication or some other marital/relationship problem, part of their distress centers around feeling emotionally disconnected from each other. This lack of emotional intimacy is often a warning sign that something needs to be addressed in your relationship.

My stepfather Dick (not a pseudonym) is incredibly kind. He is so kind it often makes others around him uncomfortable. His kindness enervates a room and can trigger others to tease or to create an opposing position. He is regularly, persistently and unceasingly complimentary. He sees the best in others and then voices it. He encourages, supports and positively mirrors. And he thrives. In the process of writing the book, The Discomfort of Happiness, I wanted to explore my resi

Not everyone realizes they have relationship needs (emotional and physical needs that you expect your spouse/partner to meet). This is especially the case for older couples I work with who were raised in a generation where the phrases, "emotional needs" "emotional intimacy" and "need for validation" would cause confusion. In the past, a statement like, "I need you to..." might be seen as selfish, self-indulgent, and counter to what marriage is all about. But times have changed. Relationship Help: Are you entitled to have your needs met?

Meditation entails any practice used to quiet one’s mind thus enabling the practitioner to focus on the present moment. Physical activities including yoga, walking, running, sewing, cooking, etc. may focus the mind and empty it of extraneous thoughts. Less physical activities including observance of the breath, mantra meditation (the continuous chanting of a sacred sound or phrase), and guided meditation (following auditory or visual prompts) are also vehicles known to shift brain activity from a stress prone state to a measurably calmer state of being.

"I really hate it when we argue…but I've also learned so much about my husband from our fights and we have a stronger relationship now." ~Sandra, married seven years Even the most effective communicators get into spats now and then. And despite your best efforts at marital bliss, you and your partner will disagree and argue from time to time. But not all conflict is bad—conflict (if handled correctly) can teach you a great deal about yourself and your spouse or partner.

Are you fed up with all the nonsense advice you get from popular female magazines out there? Of course you are. You and I both know that they'll rarely give you any valuable ideas that work in real life. As a guy with probably much more experience than the average Joe I believe I can tell you what really works, for a change, when it comes to winning over a guy's heart. And no, it's not the general advice: give him space, cook him a nice meal and stop nagging all day. Sure, to

Here is my marriage advice to all couples: If you want to strengthen your marriage or relationship: Watch your mouth! Marriage help: It's all about the words we choose There's an old Bee Gees song that says, "It's only words, and words are all I have, to take your heart away." When you and your spouse/partner were first dating, you probably used your words wisely in an effort to win over your mate's heart.

Ladies, pleasing your boyfriend in bed shouldn't be that complicated. All those female magazines out there want you to believe that figuring out a guy is rocket science. It's not. You can make your boyfriend go absolutely insane in bed by doing for simple things. I'll tell you what they are. 1. Be totally wild and naughty. Men want you to be their "personal" Porn Star in bed, and a lady on the streets. Fulfill all his naughty fantasies in bed and he'll go nuts. If you can be

Questions have the power to change people... For centuries, philosophers have known about the power of questions as a tool to finding the deeper truths about life. And questions are one of the central ways in which therapists (including marriage/couples counselors) help clients create more meaningful lives.

Arguments are a regular part of Lindsey and Hector's relationship. During a recent couples counseling session, they volleyed insults back and forth with such intensity that I almost stopped the session. But then something remarkable happened: Lindsey said, "Our marriage is too important to me to go on like this. We shouldn't treat each other this way. I want us to be friends again." I waited for Hector to mock his wife's tired attempt to bring back the harmony they once shared. But to my surprise, he softened and agreed with Lindsey.

What makes a person sexually attractive? Some guys with almost perfect bodies can't get girls while other men who who don't have the looks are surrounded by women. Let's talk about 7 main aspects that make a person attractive. 1. Boldness. Some people do whatever they want no matter what people think. They say what passes on their mind directly. They may go sit down with random girls. They dress the way they like. They may have a touch of goofiness but they respect people. This fearlessness is very inspiring and attractive. Who doesn't want that freedom?

Questions have power. They can open our minds up to new possibilities and ways-of-being, they can alter the course of our thoughts and shape our behavior in positive ways... ...and questions can have the opposite effect, shutting us down with the force of a jackhammer. And some questions aren't questions at all, they're really statements or proclamations disguised as questions. Here's an all-too-common example of a statement pretending to be a question that never leads anywhere useful (unless, of course, your goal is a break down in communication):

Touch of love we can’t get enough of it. It’s a need. According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs- men have five basic needs. One of these need are the physical needs like food, water, clothing and shelter, the safety needs like security and protection, the social needs which is the need of the person to belong and to be loved, Self- esteem needs, this is our need to be recognized, and the last but not the least self- actualization, the need of knowing true happiness. If y

When it comes to love, men often get a bad rap. "You only hear about the guys who are abusive or cheat, but how about the tons of men who are faithful and kind?" ~John "I've been married for over twenty years. I know I'm not perfect, but I can honestly say that I do my best to be a good ...

Anyone who is married or in a long-term committed relationship comes to realize that at some point there is a danger of falling into a lifeless routine.

We help couples have better sex. Improving your marriage and improving your sex life go hand in hand.

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Has your lovemaking gotten a little stale? Are your orgasms a bit weak? Prolonged foreplay in the way of lovemaking games will bring a fresh excitement to your intimacy.

The Art of Transformation, Intimacy and Sensualityrn rnThe primary benefits people receive in the Pleasure Course are feeling deeply happy and content, creating and enhancing man/woman relationships, vastly improved communication skills, and gaining expertise in sensuality.

KAMASUTRA - (The Art of making Love) Illustrated in detail: The Ratirahasya, or Secrets of love. The Panchasakya, or The Five Arrows. The Smara Pradipa, or The Light of Love. The Ratimanjari, or The Garland of Love. The Rasmanjari, or The Sprout of Love.