Sexuality Healing & Evolution I'm experiencing how sexuality is at the core of my healing and evolution. Not only the physical level but also on the emotional and energy level. At the same time I see how focusing only on my physical healing, through food, massage, rest, although essential, doesn't get at the core of what needs to be healed. When I experience a deep emotional and archetypal release my whole being feels better. My body works better, the ailments I normally feel seems to diminish. It seems easy to agree with the statement that deep emotional healing will also heal the body, but in practice it's hard to enact. This comes from the difficulty of healing. As I wrote previously, the path of healing is in the same direction to the path of addictions and obsession. The main difference being how one acts with what comes out of this path. It's hard to explain, but with the concept of sexuality there is a potent example that could be gained. I'm always struggling with sexuality. Sometime I do it too much, think about it much, and then I run away from it, and stop completely. This generally doesn't last too long and then I go back to doing it too much. I am definitely not in the middle path for that one. I was abstinent and celibate for 2 full years in my early 20s. It was a really nice experiment and I enjoy how easy life was without having to think about sexuality. It's a similar feeling when you fast for a few days, you realize how much food takes a lot of mental energy and time. But at the same time, that full on abstinence took away some potential from me. Now I've been abstinent for 10 days, and celibate for 1 year. I've stop pornography a few months ago. I have to say that stopping pornography was really important in my healing. There is something really draining about it. It is very different as it seems like it pull my energy into the medias, away from me. Lately when I browse YouTube and there is a sexy person click bait short, I still feel that pull, that similar sensation, this draining feeling that I associate with pornography. I really dislike it. Now what I am experiencing at the moment, is that complete celibacy and abstinence also have a draining element. To run away completely from sexuality is not to heal from it. To completely heal my sexuality is has to be existent, I need to not only accept it, but to use that potential. As I mentioned in one of my latest radio show, I feel like when you are part of a group like AA, you use a method to not drink anymore, and this is really important. You accept that you are an alcoholic and you use your will to not drink anymore. You are not healing from being an alcoholic, but you are creating a system in which you can function despite being an alcoholic. I'm really not trying to diminish the importance of this technique, but just using it as an example of what I am going through. My goal is to heal completely, not to accept that I have an illness and I try to cope with it. So while being abstinent for the last 10 days, I felt that I lost some potential, some energy. It was welcomed, so that I could rest a bit. The constant tension was driving me mad. But it was driving me. Could I use that driving in a different direction? I practiced some visualization meditation, and the sensation were so powerful. For the last year, my visualization were okay but not that powerful. I realized that my sexual energy, not being depleted, helped me in these type of meditation. My desires for abstinence came from a recent emotional storm. It was important to calm my mind to also temper my sexuality. It was good at first, then nature took its course and impulse kicked back in. But I wanted to continue in this abstinence, so I started to circulate that sexual energy in my body. In Taoist meditation, there is a practice called micro-orbit meditation. You practice this by circulating the energy in the body, from the genitals, down to the bottom of the spine, up the back, neck, top of the head, and then down, through the eyes, like tears, down to the heart, belly, and then you store that energy in the Tantien, the sea of chi just bellow the belly button. You can circulate that energy a few times around before you store it. What it does, it calm down my sexual excitement, and makes me focus for a moment on my overall energy. It brings presence, calm, and seems to store or transform that sexual energy into a different type of energy. What I've experienced from that abstinence is that my sexual energy can be the fuel to my healing and evolution. When I went celibate and abstinent for 2 years, I felt good, but not as vibrant. When I waste all my sexual energy in pornography, I feel drained, emotional, lonely and sad. So these two extremes aren't the path that will bring about the most in my life. So to heal with and from my sexuality, I, once again, have to walk that fine line of abstinence, yet accept and enjoy the moment when I feel aroused, and use that potential for my practices. Cultivating that sexual potential doesn't mean to get lost in lust and fantasy, but it also doesn't mean to shut myself down completely. Accepting my sexual self, listening to it's vibration, and not giving into lust as it arise, is the foundation of this practice. It seems really simple when I write it now, and intellectually I think I've understood that idea, but now I'm living it, and experimenting with it on another level. That sexual energy and potential also seems to be healing on a few different level. First on the physical level, as when I don't drain my sexual potential, it feels like my body doesn't have to refill it. That extra energy from the body can be used to heal other part of the body. It also seems to give me more energy for my day to day activity. On an emotional level, by not living in a world of lust and fantasy, I can regulate more my emotional turmoil. I'm less attached to the outcomes, and more present in what is happening now. I'm more in control of my reality. I am not in a place of desire and survival. When I need sexual gratification, I'm seeking something that will make me feel good, not only physically, but emotionally too. That gratification also boots the ego for a moment, not only from the dopamine rush, but internally, something is accomplished. Of course it's short lived and come back. This sexual healing bring about even more awareness. By being aware of the sexual tension, as small as they get, my reality is completely changed. I've also realized that some of the sexual tension I've experienced a few years ago were probably what is explained in what is called a Kundalini awakening. I remember clearly a sensation that I could only describe like an erection but not starting in my genitals, but starting at the base of my spine. It was a strange but powerful vibrant energy feeling that I've only experienced once. Energy cultivation has really changed in the last few days. From a 'this is a bad waste' to 'this is a potential power' if I can ride it properly. It's also quite calming to have this focus. It brings me out of the emotional anxiety that I've been living for the last few days. It seems like, what creates anxiety in my mind is simply an indicator that I've made the wrong choice in my head. I was feeling sad that this relationship was over and I was just forcing myself into not being in that relationship ever again. Now that has changed, to "This relationship never really existed to start with but it's bringing you some life lesson that you should continue to explore" So I don't need to choose to stop anything, but simply continue to learn and be grateful and curious about the lessons and where its leading me.