When you have shut down your sensuality and denied your sexuality, you cannot be fully alive and present to yourself and who you are. When you have shut down any part of your sensual self, you cannot be fully conscious or awake to life or yourself.
Tara Marino has presented a fascinating perspective on what it means to be in touch with your Sensuality. While our sexuality is not the same thing as being sensuous, they are connected and related. Being in touch with our Sensuality, as Tara describes it, involves our keeping our channels open to all SEVEN senses -- yes, all SEVEN.
You are perhaps counting...."I know about the five senses...the things we see, touch, taste, smell and hear..." Then...you might have remembered that our intuition is our "sixth sense". Right? So what is the "seventh sense"? Mystics like the Kabbalists have talked about this sense for centuries: it is the "sense" of "receiving". Hmmm....you might wonder. "Receiving"...what is that about?
If we think as sex as a metaphor, it is the woman or feminine energy that "receives" his or her lover into their body, into the open arms of the receiving vessel. To give may be wonderful, but the capacity to receive is what lifts us to the realms of our higher selves, to the divine within each of us. It is not about "taking" -- it is about opening up to and allowing the gifts which are already there to be received by the beloved.
In order to be fully conscious, fully alive, we are invited to engage with all of our senses: it is not possible to be totally awake or conscious when we are "drugged" by substances such as alcohol nor numbed by shutting down any channels to our feeling states.
For many years, I had shut down my channels to my sexual impulses and needs; I had the illusion that if I didn't think about it or admit to having desires which were sexual, I could effectively push them aside and nonetheless live a passionate and creative life. After years of being shut down, I invited passion back into my life. I allowed the channels of my own sensuous and sexual energies to become reactivated and re-ignited. By doing so, I also engaged with my entire sensual self, feeling more vital and awake than ever before in my earlier years.
Since I have acknowleged my own sensuality and sexuality -- having nothing to do with whether or not I am sexually active with a partner -- I am also more equipped to energetically open myself to my intuitive wisdom and allow myself to continue to expand my awareness, to evolve my own consciousness.
When you see yourself as "sexy", choosing to engage with all of life with passionate intention and energy, you can also move yourself forward in your spiritual growth, feeling more alive and fully engaged on all burners.
Being sexy is an important part of being your delicious spiritual self!
Blessings and hugs,
Sheila
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