When we’re cut off from our inner knowing, or don’t trust it, we’re not able to access our own life-force with ease.
This can look like being successful but burnt out, or super busy but unfulfilled. It can feel like chronic brain-fog, confusion, and exhaustion.
It’s like hiking up a mountain with a backpack full of rocks. As we learn to trust that knowing within—the voice of life-force, of sexual, creative energy and how it speaks to us in particular—that pack of rocks becomes a jet-pack; we’re fueled by our own innate power, rather than striving against it.
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If pleasure is emptied of its potency, situated as reward, rather than prerequisite to productivity, we're more likely to stay self-sacrificing, and compliant. We’re more likely to believe we need what’s being sold, and sacrifice ourselves in the selling.
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To practice one’s pleasure (I do believe pleasure, like love, is a practice we can and must cultivate) in service of a life that’s all-in is above all an act of exquisite vulnerability, because at the heart of what’s pleasing about pleasure is honesty; pleasure is not something we can fake. It’s not a performance. When we inhabit our pleasure we exhale into our authentic selves. We are laying aside self-consciousness and worries about what others think, and we are, for however brief a moment, suspended in oneness with life itself. We are bared. We are open.
This is why nothing hurts quite like being rejected while inhabiting our pleasure—nothing, that is, except living in fear of such rejection and therefore deciding over time that our pleasure doesn’t matter, or worse, that it’s a contagion.
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