Great sex is life-affirming, joyous and pleasurable. It leaves us satisfied yet eager
for more. It puts us in a place of present moment connection with our lover and
enhances the bond between us. Our lover thrives on gentleness and presence.
Relaxation and trust allow us to let go and be ourselves whether it builds into
wild passionate abandon or whether we flow and intertwine into a fluid and
singular being, dancing with our hearts open. Of course, sex takes many forms
and has many songs but the fundamental tenets of consent, trust, attraction and
passion lie at the heart of our most natural and fundamental desires.
Our
relationship to life works in much the same way. Just like our lover, we cannot
inspire the best within us if we are harsh, desperate, fearful or critical. We
cannot expect life to yield to us ecstatic moments of pure joy if we have approached
our experiences with anger, hopelessness or judgement.
Not
that we should deny our emotions or pretend they do not exist. They must be
listened to and they must be embraced and loved. There is great value in
treating yourself as a precious object and embracing the difficult emotions in
order to hear what they are saying to you. When we can start to hear the messages
of our body, instead of reacting to them and throwing them outwards, we start
to develop our relationship with ourselves and thus with life. All we have to
do is become quiet and listen to ourselves and our bodies.
Life
may teach us about sex but sex can teach us about life. A great lover is admired
and loved. So too can we learn to admire and love the rhythms of life and the
experiences that come to us. We can begin to admire and love ourselves. A great
lover is caressed to lofty passion through delicate sensations that build over
time; each of us preferring a different touch, a different way. Life touches us
all the time and we reach out into life with our thoughts and perceptions.
There is great value in allowing our thoughts to linger in places that feel
good, in areas and subjects that allow our essence to flow. A great lover has
rhythms we can tune into so that we begin dancing as one. Life too has a flow
that we can choose to accept in the moment, not forcing or struggling, but
following the tide, like water to the moon.
If we
make love to life, we approach life as a lover. We are patient and artful. We
are present in the moment, connected and trusting. We notice that our thoughts
and words have power. We notice that our perceptions create realities and we
adjust them in order to experience something new. We are free to choose new
ideas and to focus on the beautiful aspects of what we see. Just as we complement
our lovers, so we learn to complement life and look for that which arouses us, which
ignites our hearts and sets our souls free. Just as we notice that appreciation
affects our lovers, we realise that we too are affected by our own attitudes.
We treat ourselves as we treat our lovers. We hold ourselves in high-regard. We
are precious objects.
Slowly
we realise that life is responding to us in much the same way. Slowly we
realise that life yields and opens up to us as we open up our hearts to life.
We approach our situations with new eyes, choosing to look for the silver
linings as we listen to our intuitive guidance within. Life echoes us and just
as we dance with our lover, so we dance with life.
Make love,
in everything you do…
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Create February Fabulous!
is an idea or challenge to try and show up with your own creativity
every day for the month of February. It is a simple idea. The creativity
can take any form, and take any amount of time. Any media, any
discipline, the only condition is to have fun. No critics, no judgement,
just a celebration of our own unique human quality of creativity. You
are encouraged to share your projects anywhere you like (only if you
want) using the hashtag #createfebruary. Join the Facebook group,
share on Instagram, blog about it, invite friends to some daily
creativity. Let's see what we can create together.
Matt
is a singer/songwriter, musician, poet and writer of words. He is
exploring the forests of consciousness, time and space, and surfing the
waves of thought, love and being. Getting lost and wiping out are
adventures in themselves!
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