Overcoming Intimacy Issues
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011If you’re like many people currently in a long-term relationship, you might be experiencing an intimacy issue. The term “intimacy issue” casts an extremely wide net across a number of relationship difficulties, and can describe a wide range of symptoms and behaviors. While it can be a confusing milieu, there is a great deal of help available to help.
Overcoming fear of intimacy can feel like an intimidating process, and it can be a lengthy process. Diminishing intimacy fears really boils down to identifying the root cause, or at least the main symptom, and taking deliberate and proven steps to mitigate the issue in your relationship. Generally, fear of intimacy begins in either an underlying self-esteem issue that one or both partners is dealing with (consciously or not), or an intimacy issue can trace its roots back to a previous relationship problem or betrayal that still has an impact on one or both partners.
Happily, intimacy issues are common, and help for intimacy issues is relatively easy to find. One-on-one is a very common treatment method. If you’re comfortable speaking with a trained therapist, chances are good that your particular therapist has been well educated in relationship and intimacy issues. Relationship difficulties are an exceptionally common problem area, and therapy theories cover them extensively.
If you’d prefer not to talk to someone, there is another option available. It takes advantage of the healing power of meditation, and it uses guided imagery scripts to help create a relaxed frame of mind. Guided imagery meditations then take listeners through a series of exercises designed to help visualize positive intimacy experiences, developing thought and imagery memory of positive emotional and physical intimacy that translate directly to your relationship.
Neither guided imagery meditation nor in-person therapy works overnight, and both methods rely on your commitment to improvement in order to be successful.

