Let's talk about pleasure
Making time for PLEASURE in the modern world… In today's day and age, the general consensus is, "Who has time for pleasure?!"
Society says:
"Who has time to fully enjoy the sweetness of a peach?"
"Who has time to deeply receive the swelling satisfaction of making love?"
"Who has time for the sound of a flowing river and the stunning colors of a sunset?"
Prioritizing your pleasure is NECESSARY for you to be healthy, happy, and abundant. But we have a cultural and societal deficiency of Vitamins B and P: Beauty and Pleasure! Many sensual pleasures we LONG to receive on the deepest levels of our being are blunted by the stressful pace of life.
We miss the glory of the sunrise and sunset as we hustle around. Processed foods leave our tastebuds hungry for the succulent tastes of the earth. Synthetic fragrances, pollution, overstimulating screens... the list goes on and on!
The bottom line is -- most of us aren't R E C E I V I N G the sensual pleasures our bodies and spirits need to feel deeply excited, vibrantly alive, and wholly fulfilled by the gift that is LIFE!
Why is this a problem? Healthy pleasure is fuel. It fuels our creativity and productivity. Pleasure fuels the second chakra which is where we generate energy. Women have been taught to fear, mistrust or be ashamed of their sexual energy.
Living without access to pleasure as fuel ages us quickly. It undermines healthy relationships and it limits our creativity and productivity.
They then have to resort to the THIRD chakra to generate the energy needed to accomplish their tasks and fuel their dreams... But the third chakra is not a generator -- it's a radiator! It’s where we’re meant to radiate our energy that was generated below in the second chakra.
And which glands are associated with the third chakra? The adrenals! So we ask the adrenals - which are more like spark plugs, to do the job of the generator….and they get burned out!
SO... Without enough fuel (pleasure) to generate energy in our second chakra (sensuality/sexuality), we resort to the solar plexus (willpower), which ultimately leaves our adrenals burned out. It's a vicious cycle that drops us immediately into fear in times of stress and chaos. Coronavirus. The stock market. Your teenagers!
With all this, we tend to push pleasure to the back burner. We tell ourselves we’ll enjoy a nice, relaxing walk after the work is done. But that’s like saying we’ll put gas in our car AFTER we arrive at our destination! It just doesn’t work that way.
Pleasure is not fluff. It's essential! So in the sisterhood, we are learning ways to cultivate healthy pleasures. Why? Because most of us have a limited pleasure vocabulary. The list looks something like this: Chocolate. Chardonnay. Cheese. Bubble bath. Massage. Shopping!
We must expand the list times a hundred to reclaim our wild feminine nature of true, deep sensuality! We must cultivate pleasures that cost no money and take very little time - or else we will continue to be starved for pleasure.
That's exactly what we do in the Shakti Sisterhood. We're deep-diving into this wild reclamation together through ease, grace, and pleasure! There's a seat open and a candlelit for you in our circle, sister. It's time to step into our full feminine selves... together!