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How's Your Sex Life?

Great Sex Matters When You're Trying to Conceive

By Jane Merrill

Doctors have traditionally told women who want to get pregnant to relax. Since intoxicating sex relaxes, there may be a connection between body, mind and conception.

According to far Eastern philosophy, if you clear your mind, your soma (body) performs better. It follows then that feeling primed, sexual and concentrated in the sexual act can promote the conception of a child. For instance, traditional Chinese sexologists claimed a woman's sexual response was a big factor, saying her sexual satisfaction was considered an objective condition for timely conception and healthy offspring.

Stress is like spermocide! The holistic medicine authorities say it's a matter of the man and woman getting in tune. The woman's cycle is the moon; the man's cycle is the sun. The woman has inner tides; the man rises and sets, producing sperm on a daily basis. Sex and intimacy bring the cycles into harmony. "Stress is the big deterrent of mood," says Dr. Wei Huang of Arogya Holistic Healing in Connecticut. "If the parents are stressful, so is the pregnancy."

Great sex seems to release any stagnant energy and opens you to a flowing energy that will transcend into life. The good feeling is a saving power that enhances the pathways of your body. "When someone is stressed out it takes away from the whole experience," says Dr. Wei Huang. "This is a natural experience. In