Love, Sex and Your Heart

Love, Sex, & Your Heart elucidates how emotional life and physical being

are one, mutually reflective as two sides of a coin. Emotional life is tied to

physical being and physical health is dependent on emotional well-being.

Alexander Lowen’s insight into these powerful connections offers

an innovative approach to cardiovascular health and the treatment of

heart disease.

Lowen examines the feeling of love as a physiological process in the body.

When this process is frustrated, as in the case of heartbreak or isolation,

especially during childhood, people suppress their pain by unconsciously

rigidifying their chest muscles. This results in a chronic restriction of

breathing, movement, and feeling. It is this tension that limits pleasure, and

predisposes so many to heart disease.

This book features the principles and therapeutic techniques to help people

understand their fear of love, release chronic muscular tension, and become

more loving. It is essential reading for health professionals and anyone

interested in the health of the heart.