What’s your pleasure?
How I find pleasure brings ease to the, shall we say, more rigid parts of me :)
Hey hi hello! Today’s post, like so many others, came to my while sitting in the sauna. I had just returned to the sauna after a cold shower, lay down and let the swirl of dopamine and endorphins wash through my body, eyes closed and in a state of total bliss. Simmering in the natural high, I thought about when else in my life I felt this present and connected and alivened, and immediately orgasm came to mind. Yes, I thought, both orgasms and this feeling right here put me in a state of total…what’s the word…rapture. And then I thought about the first bite of a Nook pizza and realized, yes, that too evokes a sense of rapture. And come to think of it, so does the feeling of expressing and feeling a rhythm move through my body, which many of you participate in regularly in a class I teach called meta. As I lay there, I thought how writing about cultivating moments of pleasure would be interesting. It’s something I seek out regularly and a sensation I embrace (although who doesn’t love an orgasm?), and as I thought about how I might discuss it, a thing my therapist said to me, probably four + years ago, popped up in my head. I haven’t thought of this since she said it, and yet for whatever reason, it re-crystallized. Bare with me on this little tangent, as it will all make sense eventually.
Our session was during a period in my life where I was, let’s just say, trying to blow it all up. Call it self-sabotage.
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