Chapter 2Energy Tools for Creating Intimacy
A Dialogue Between Donna Eden and David Feinstein, authors ofEnergies of Love, etc.
David: Thank you, Gayle, for this opportunity to share some of what we've learned in working with couples, as well as in navigating our own 43-year relationship. We come from an unusual angle in our approach with couples, and that is to focus on what we call the “energies of love.” Donna’s expertise is in Energy Medicine and mine is in Energy Psychology. Both disciplines have a great deal to teach about successful relationships.Donna: From this outlook, a relationship is a meeting of two unique energies. Before two bodies ever touch, their energies have already been mingling. These energies are invisible but they have tangible effects, often profound ones.
David: Scientists at the HeartMath Institute in Northern California have measured the electronic field surrounding the heart. And guess what, your heart’s field affects your partner’s brainwaves! In fact, the energy field of the heart is much larger and more powerful than the energy field of the brain.Donna: You can sense this. Many people report knowing something about their partner’s mood when they walk into the house, even before they’ve seen one another.
David: You are probably familiar with the concept of an “aura.” Like the heart’s field, scientists have also detected and measured the aura, which they generally refer to as the “biofield.” It’s not hard to visualize an aura. You often see an aura depicted in religious paintings as an energetic glow that surrounds the body. If you imagine the glow around each partner building a third energy that surrounds the couple, you get an inkling of what we mean by “the energies of love.”
Donna: Of course it’s not that simple. The aura interacts with
