Discovering Pleasure, By Debbie Rosas.

Body Psychotherapist and Author Stanley Kelemen in his book, Your Body Speaks Its Mind writes, “Feelings do not emerge from a background of nothing. They result from movement, containment, and the intensifying of excitation. A person feels the progression from vibrating to pulsating to streaming as a deepening of self-enjoyment and a deepening participation with the rest of the natural world. The streaming’s brew feelings of rightness and oneness with nature.” 

Pleasure is sometimes wild, often pulling and pushing us into various behaviors. When we least expect it, the feelings of pleasure can suddenly occur and surprise us or even frighten us. The power of connecting to pleasure is that it can release us from the bondage of the past, soften our heart, clear our mind, and open us up to the essence of our true spirit and soul by demanding our attention. If we ignore the awakening of pleasure, it will only get bigger, wider, deeper, and louder.

Awakening Pleasure

Techniques are helpful for stimulating the awakening pull of pleasure. Psychophysiology tests allows us see that feelings of pleasure and joy are key elements in reducing stress. In psychoneuroimmunology, neuroendocrinology, and in all aspects related to our physical, mental, and spiritual health, pleasure can be used to shift our body from inside-out. Learning to seek pleasure and making it our best confidant, ally, and medicine will result in rewarding and positive outcomes. 

The sensation of pleasure is personal and meant to be experienced as safe. It may or may not have anything to do with sexual arousal. It can be sensed as excited, calm, peace, or harmony. In Nia, it can be sensed as life force energy flowing throughout our spirit, soul, and body, leaving us feeling alive and vital. Sensuous body pleasure is a sensation we are meant to activate and sustain as soon as we are born. We learn about pleasure from being held, brought to breast, and close to another human being.

The sensation of sensual body pleasure is a primordial, healing energy that relaxes and nurtures the body, with benefits similar to meditation. David Abram, ecologist, philosopher, and author of, “The Spell of the Sensuous,” writes that when we are under the what he describes as the “spell of the sensuous,” all 75 trillion of the cells in our body relax and expand, actually radiating energy like the sun. The universe itself is a sensuous environment with everything always touching everything else, the tree touching the sky, the sky touching the wind, and the wind touching our smile. 

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