Sensuality is how we experience the world, through our senses, sight, touch, taste, smell, sound, intuition, feelings, sensations…
It’s also how we experience ourselves.
The awareness of our bodies, our connection to the environment, to others, to everything that’s happening around us and within us, it’s all sensual.
What so many of us have done is put sensuality in a connection to sex, and mostly putting it in the realm of foreplay. And in this, we’ve disconnected ourselves from much of our sensuality in a conscious context.
Presence, awareness, consciousness is vital to healing, to growth, to change, to creation, to manifestation, to ourselves, our bodies, our energy, another, a lover, others, to life itself.
It’s part of so many paths of spirituality and healing.
It’s where we find ourselves, see ourselves, feel ourselves, connect to ourselves.
Where we are, when we’re present.
And our sensuality, in all of its expressions, is a way to experience ourselves consciously, to connect with the world and bring ourselves into presence.
It’s been said that everything we need is within us, we need to learn where to look, how to listen to what this incredible wisdom is telling us.
Our bodies carry us through this life, and inside of us is the intelligence to guide us.
Some call it Spirit, some call it Energy.
Its manifestation is sensuality.
Let’s begin with our physical senses.
With awareness, with pause, we can come into presence.
Take a moment to feel the weather on your skin, hot, cold, rain, wind.
Stop. Stand still. Feel. Your skin. The sensation touching you. Breathe.
Presence.
Taste.
So many moments in the day, we eat, we drink.
Take time, even for the first sip, the first bite.
Relish it. Savor it.
Feel it in your mouth, feel it in your body.
Presence.
And as an aside, in time, doing this, you’ll become more aware of what you’re eating, of what nourishes you, of what you really want, as you connect more with your body.
And before you even sip the coffee, pause, inhale, aroma…
Then taste.
Then sensation in your mouth, the temperature, the texture.
It becomes a moment of meditation, delicious sensual meditation.
A flower, a sound, walking past someone who smells delicious.
Pause. Breathe.
That’s the secret.
And touch, oh, delight in touch.
Whether it’s a handshake or a lover’s embrace.
A breath to feel where your skin touches theirs, where your bodies meet, melt, connect.
A pause, a breath, sensation.
You’re present.
Feeling, emotion.
Presence by acknowledging the feeling, naming it, allowing it to be there. In your body, the sensation of it, the depth of it, all of it.
Moments of presence, moments in a day, moments of connection to yourself, the world, others, to life.
Moments that become more as we become more present.
Moments that take us out of distraction, out of stress, out of disconnect.
From our bodies, going deeper into energy, into creativity, into intuition, into inspiration through presence, through awareness, through connection.
Sensual connection which becomes a sensual meditation.
And then with another, a lover.
Worlds to explore in these bodies, limitless sensation, feeling, taking us deeper into ourselves, into the other.
Presence.
One of the greatest gifts you can give.
Intimacy is to be found here, beyond words, heart space, open.
And all in this body, this beautiful, sensual body.
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