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... It's not enough to know where to touch your partner . . . you have to know when and how to touch him or her. There is nothing stronger than
feeling immense love in your heart and allowing that energy to flow through you into the touch you pass on to the one you love.
Kissing

Kissing is one of the most intimate sexual acts you can experience. When you place your mouth on the mouth of the
person you love, you are sharing the very life breath of that person. As with touch, if you set aside feelings of lust, and
replace them with your heartfelt feelings of love, it will transfer into your kiss. The passionate kiss stands alone as an
act in which both lovers are equally open to one another, our hearts are open and our souls breathe together.

Loss of love

Love nourishes the deepest level of our being. It feeds our soul, our heart, even our body. With it, we
thrive. Without it, we become love-starved.

From the time we enter this world, there is something we need more than food, water, and air to live a meaningful life - we need love. When our heart is fed with
intimacy, affection, and communication, the hunger for love is satisfied. But when we are deprived of these things, our heart is hungry, and we become love-
starved.

Many men and women are walking around hungry for attention, for affection, for appreciation, for love, just like infants who were not touched or nurtured.
Sadly, we’re not just talking about single people, but about people in a relationship with a partner who, perhaps without realising it, is emotionally starving them
by not adequately feeding their heart.

If we feel starved of love, we're not getting enough of the things we need to feel safe, valued, and connected, so we feel a sense of emptiness inside of us. Nature
abhors a vacuum and many of us deal with that emptiness in ways that ultimately do not serve us. We try to fill ourselves up with other things - food, alcohol,
drugs, shopping, work, care-taking people, excessive spending, etc. There's only one thing we're missing, one thing we're hungry for, and it cannot be replaced
by substitutes. What we are missing is love.

Imagine that your heart is like a plant - it needs to be watered to be healthy, to blossom, and to stay alive. When your partner waters your heart with love, it
becomes full. You can look at a person and tell if they are well loved, because they have that glow of love, as if they have just been watered. They are full of
sweetness.

People who are starved of love, have a heart that is parched and thirsty. Rather than glowing with love, they appear dry and shrivelled up, as if they need feeding,
which they do. They are thirsty for love. I'm not suggesting that if you aren't in a relationship, you are all dried up, the truth is that if you're loving yourself and
regularly connecting with people you care for, your heart is being fed. What I'm referring to is what happens in an intimate relationship when, you need a certain Page391
amount of love to keep the “plant” of your well-being healthy and vibrant.