Sunday With Cindy: Saying Yes to Pleasure

Drawing from her personal research with Vic and subsequently with more of her friends, one of Cindy Baranco's central themes was a reminder that there is a cyclical quality to life's energy. A big wave of energy is surging now that is comparable to, or possibly even larger than, the one that crested in the 60's and early 70's. As that wave ebbed, there was a societal "no" that muted fun inclinations. This new wave of energy provides an opportunity for greater intimacy, love, pleasure, creativity, sensuality, and, in a nutshell, FUN! There is a "yes" where there was a "no". The shift is palpable and continues to be enhanced by the reality we shared in the course.

With her characteristic warmth and humor, Cindy encouraged us to review the decisions made in our past, decisions that were right at the time and served their purpose but may now be out of date and too limiting. We were inspired to approach our lives newly, with an open mind and a willingness to recognize the potential for "yes" and to start a new history of winning responses. Cindy described life as a potentially upward spiral with the your perfection and the beauty of life ever unfolding.

Cindy & Friends offered examples from their personal lives and practical tools for embarking on your own journey in saying yes to pleasure. The buddy system was one such tool: you and your friends stay interested and engaged in one another and together enjoy the adventure of living. The connection that we all want, being known and loved, is available to you by investing your interest and a willingness to say yes.

Students in the course are currently participating in an online forum, being buddies with one another as they allow and pursue the yes in their lives, to experience the pleasure of higher-level games, where you know of your rightness and the rightness of the people you are playing with.

Live and for the first time, Cindy and Friends presented the second in the Sunday with Cindy series on Sunday, March 20, 2011. The video of the course is now available and presented as a one-day course.

If you find yourself in an upper level game, start playing. Take the lead in having fun whatever the circumstances. In higher level games you remember everyone you are playing with is right. -- Cindy Baranco

Some photos of the experience

Read Kassy's blog of her experiences post Saying Yes to Pleasure.