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The Arranged Inner Marriage: How Inner Relationship Affects Outer Relationship
By Steve Lee, MFT-a look at how the relationship we have with ourselves shapes every relationship we have with others, drawing on psychology and spiritual practice.
What is the Inner Marriage?
The inner marriage is a relationship with our vast range of feelings from ecstasy to despair, from love to hate.
The inner marriage is our relationship with thoughts, ranging from irrational to clear objectivity.
The inner marriage is our relationship with dreams at night, day dreams, and fantasies of any sort.
The inner marriage is our relationship with longing for people, situations or anything.
The inner marriage is our relationship with body sensations from the most painful to the most pleasurable.
The inner marriage is our relationship with intuitions from the most simple “gut feeling” to psychic vision.
The inner marriage is our inherent relationship to life.
What is the inner marriage for you? We are married to our inner life, “for better or for worse”, “until death do us part”.
Steve Lee lives in Northern California. He’s been a Marriage and Family Therapist for over 30 years. He teaches inner relationship through the doorway of psychotherapy, meditation and the intentional use of psychedelic plant medicines.
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