Table Of ContentOPEN HER
Activate 7 masculine Powers
to Arouse Your Woman’s
Love and Desire
Karen Brody
DreamStream Press
San Francisco
Copyright © 2014 by Karen Brody
All rights reserved. No part of this book
may be reproduced or utilized, in any
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mechanical, without prior permission in
writing from the publisher.
Published in 2014 by Dream Stream
Press, San Francisco
ISBN-13: 978-0615972329
ISBN-10: 0615972322
Cover design by Vanessa No Heart
Book design by Tom Crockett
Open Her: Activate 7 Masculine Powers
to Arouse Your Woman’s Love and
Desire is not meant as a substitute for
counseling. The author is not dispensing
medical or psychological advice.
Whenever there is a concern about
physical or emotional illness, a qualified
professional should be consulted. The
author shall have neither liability nor
responsibility to any person or entity
with respect to any loss, damage, injury,
or ailment caused or alleged to be
caused directly or indirectly by the
information or lack of information in this
book.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Artist
Chapter Two: The Poet
Chapter Three: The Director
Chapter Four: The Warrior
Chapter Five: The Sage
Chapter Six: The Dark Knight
Chapter Seven: The Lover
Conclusion
About the Author
FOREWORD
Sexuality is a treasure trove, but it's also
a minefield. It's the one life arena that's
fraught with both incredible primal
energy, and also the possibility for
endless pain and shame. And that's just
within an individual–once partners are
involved everything becomes even more
heightened. To navigate this potent,
tricky terrain, we need impeccable
guidance. That's why I was so excited
when asked to write the forward for
Karen Brody's book. Karen and I met,
and have found great common ground as
educators of sexual and emotional
intimacy.
I trust Karen's approach to sexuality
and relationships, and deeply respect the
message she has to share with men.
When it comes to practical insights that
unleash the transformative potential of
sexuality within intimate relationships,
this book is the gold standard.
What it's not: A way to get women
into bed, or a way to get them to better
serve your desires. What it is: A guide
for evoking ecstatic sexual union with
your partner.
Karen understands that such union is
first and foremost about oneself, and that
when a man learns how to open to his
own unfettered masculine energy, only
then is he capable of truly loving his
partner, and of calling forth the same true
love from her.
Getting there, even to the point of
knowing the value of such a path, is not
an easy road for most of us men. The
rough combination of testosterone and
cultural conditioning finds us, when
relating to women, in the mode of hot
pursuit. We want to conquer, possess,
‘get’ ours. All of which tends to shut
most women down rather than open them
up.
To make matters worse, few of us
have the combination of looks and
swagger necessary to pull off the kind of
misguided seduction we crave. As a
result, we're either left empty-handed or
unsatisfied with the women we ensnare.
I experienced all of this personally
in my teens and twenties. From an early
age I felt both blessed and cursed by the
amount of sexual energy that coursed
through me. I had a wild sex life, but all
on my own. That's because the women I
wanted only wanted to be my best
friend, and the women who wanted me I
didn't want at all.
The resulting isolation, and sexual
frustration, created a dark storm at the
center of my existence. Luckily, I found
my way to a great therapist. One day, I
was complaining to her about how
women only wanted James Dean, and
how I could never be him.
My therapist asked me what
qualities I attributed to James Dean. I
told her that Dean (or really the
archetype he represented) exuded such
raw sexual energy that all he had to do
was lean against a wall and women
would throw themselves at him. At this
point my therapist caught me totally off-
guard.
"Would you like to meet your own
inner James Dean?" she asked. I felt
shocked, confused, challenged. What
was she even talking about?
Using a practice called Voice
Dialogue, my therapist had me move to
another seat and began talking to me as if
I was actually James Dean. When I
joined in the dialogue, much to my
surprise, I started to feel sexually
confident. I could tell that I was
radiating sexual energy in a new way,
one that wasn't so bound up in fear and
doubt.
Then came the kicker. My therapist
went silent. She just looked at me. It
took me a few seconds to realize that she
was allowing her own sexual energy to
enter the space between us in a palpable
way. I felt wanted by her, as a man, as a
sexual man, while knowing full well this
was also a completely safe experiment.
We stayed in this incredibly charged
silent gaze for at least five minutes. I can
honestly say it changed my life.
But not in the way you might
imagine.
I didn't go from feeling undesirable
to supremely confident in my sexual
attractiveness. Instead, I knew that the
channels for sexual energy in me had just
burst wide open. Before, my sexual
energy was like a tsunami inside a
garden hose–insistent, overpowering,
focused narrowly on escape and release.
Now, the generative power of
sexuality spread to every part of me like
the waves of an infinite ocean. Its waves
seemed made of light, illuminating every
aspect of my being ripe for discovery
and fulfillment.
Through sexuality, you might say, I
gave birth to a new self, one that
unleashed the man I'd always longed to
be. This was also a man that women
wanted naturally–the right women–and a
man who could meet them in erotic
connection without halting or hiding.
Which brings us back to this book.
Besides being an exquisitely reliable
guide in the realm of satisfying sexual
connection, Karen is also a writer of
great grace and insight. She shares from
a fascinating feminine perspective all of
those things women long for and so
seldom find in their men. She makes
incredibly complex themes come to life
in a clear, accessible way.
Karen has developed a schema for
opening yourself that cultivates what she
calls the “Seven Masculine Archetypes.”
I didn't know it at the time, but in the
aftermath of what happened with my
therapist, that's what I did. Only I
stumbled a lot in the process, and would
have been enormously grateful to have
this book as a companion on the journey.
