The true growing up comes when you understand that I need to break from the past.

I am no longer my past and in order to reinvent yourself in the present, I need to heal.

I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

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Hello everyone. Hi guys. So when Miriam and I were deciding what the topic of my

presentation would be, what would be the title.

I told her, you know, I'm really sick of being introduced as the parenting expert

because it's not sexy enough.

So she's like, okay, then just talk about sex.

So I said, I can't talk about sex on Sunday morning.

But let's pretend we're going to talk about sex

so that the people will come, and let's pretend we're going to talk about sex so that the people will come and let's call it conscious intimacy

So see do you see how many men are in the room? It worked

So I know you probably think conscious intimacy is about, you know, some sort of

tantric breathing or some sacred copulation, but like all good sex,

it starts with a lot of foreplay.

So we have to go to a place before the bed sheet to talk about conscious intimacy.

So just like in parenting, where we've understood now

that by age two, the kid is pretty much screwed up.

So it is with conscious coupling.

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