Sensuality, resilience, and the experience of simple pleasures help us all live a richer life. Unfortunately, we often deny ourselves the sensual. Too commonly, we think of sensuality as sexual, decadent, or even otherworldly. So, we shy away from it.
Yet, all pleasure is a sensual experience. How you know something is pleasurable is through sound, touch, feeling, hearing, and moving – the senses! Just even thinking about a piece of music, an exceptional food, a breeze, or a whiff of an aroma can instantly relax us. Our sensuality can ground us. Because of this grounding, sensual experience also gives us resilience.
Sensuality is Key to Lived Experience. Lived Experience Creates Resilience
You see, having resilience during physically, mentally, and emotionally trying times is what allows us to meet them without surrendering to fatigue, pain, or discouragement.
Habitually, we numb ourselves from the depths of our senses because our senses can also be the source of painful and disturbing experiences.
But we throw the baby out with the bathwater by doing this. Evidence shows that opening up to our senses helps us to feel alive without being overwhelmed by negative experiences. We enjoy simple positive pleasures instead. It is quite extraordinary how many simple pleasures there are in the world.
The good and the bad will always come together. The question is which dominates us. The senses and our sensuality are a thread of pleasure that strengthens in adversity.
Finding Experiences of Simple Pleasures is an Easy Way to Use Sensuality for Resilience
I was walking today. The breeze was cool. I was amazed by how that cool breeze centered me. My day had been challenging. Yet, that simple breeze offered me resilience. Follow along with me and try it!.
Or, you follow the video below and be guided through finding your own sensuality, resilience and the experience of simple pleasures
Remember, Sensuality is simply allowing what is pleasing to the senses. Think of an extremely pleasing vacation. You probably felt fortified coming home.
Maybe the resilience came from a pleasure as simple as soaking in water. That is a simple and pleasing. Can you feel it? You are embodying.the ability to recover from or have a sense of elasticity around traumatic or difficult circumstances
Sensual Simple Pleasures are Easy to Find
New research is showing how even small doses of sensual pleasure help us recover from pain and trauma. It’s like an underground spring of aliveness that runs through us. This small stream of sensual pleasure carries our resilience..
Somatic Movement is a Sensual Pleasure that Builds Resilience.
In my work, I endeavor to make movement helpful so the people I work with develop more ease, less pain, and more capacity for physicality. But, part of what we are doing is making movement pleasurable. And yes, that pleasure comes from our senses. We sense as we move. And, as we move we are feeling sensual pleasantness.
To recap, Somatic Embodiment is capacity building. It builds your capacity to meet difficult things and live through them. It protects us from defeat and suffering.
Hard things happen but embodiment is a medicine that gives us the strength to feel those difficult things. It supports us in reclaiming, owning and celebrating our humanity.
So please, learn more. And join me. have a helpful playlist for calm on YouTube. I also offer classes and workshops via Zoom, private lessons and maintain resource pages on my website.
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