All life is art, and when we realize that, it transforms our lives. We live in a world that has a faulty program.  We say we believe in the divine, but spend most of our time thinking of ways to diminish the miraculous in our lives.  We meet someone spectacular and say, “She can’t be that great.”  We go in for an interview and think, “I’ll never get this, it would be too good to be true.”  Someone tells us they had cancer, but just came back from the doctor and the tests can no longer find the cancer, and we say…What do we say?  We say, “I guess you never had it." Not, life has blessed you with a healing.” The mind that we use every day has become tinted in gray.  It no longer sees the shimmering world beyond this one.  We don’t see through the experiences to the exquisite nature that gave rise to our good fortune, we only see the end result.  But the end result will always become dusty, old and its beauty, unrecognizable in time.  The only way to always see joy, is to see what is beyond the surface, for there, nothing of this world can taint it.  Dust cannot touch it, nor rust corrode, but in order to see this world, we must be willing to change how we believe circumstances unfold.  Do things just happen?  Shit happens, " is a popular saying. But is it true, or are we magnificent creators who are wearing blindfolds and earplugs and therefore do not hear the thoughts that became the seeds of our own experiences?

You are infinite joy.  For those who meditate deeply, they know that the breath turns into bliss the longer they focus inwardly. It is never anything outside of you.  You are your own laughter, your own exuberant joy, your own ecstasy! It’s only that most never go into their inner chambers long enough to realize the treasure awaiting them.

In the language of Yeshua/Jesus, breath meant the same as spirit.  To them, you were breathing in life, the Universe, that which created all with each inhale. Is it a wonder to suppose that breathing should feel luxuriously divine? Breathing relaxes our muscles and relaxation has been known to reverse high blood pressure, mental stress and asthma. Breathing feeds our muscles when we exert effort, it calms our fear and is fuel to our anger. Breathing is the path we take to experience the body’s most exorbitant emotion- orgasm. Breathing is more than what we do every few seconds.  The breath is mystical.   

In spite of seeing sex and sensuality blasted in almost every ad, in practically every movie we see and nearly every song we hear, most Americans have issues with their sexuality.  If we were truly comfortable with our sexuality, for example, men wouldn’t need to look at so much porn.  Whatever incredibly exciting feeling they were trying to achieve through perusing Playboy all by their lonesome, they’d feel bold enough, vulnerable enough, skilled or deep enough to achieve it through sex with their actual partners.  And women, well, some women wouldn’t secretly feel relieved when their periods were on, or when the kids climbed into the bed at night relieving them of having to find an excuse for not having sex. Somehow it seems that feeling really good is somehow, really not good. To further the point, the General Social Survey found that married couples have sex an average of 58 times per year which is a little over once a week- barely.  Yet a National Survey of more than 3,000 men and women ages 57-85, causes one to take pause with regard to this lackadasical drive to feel good.  For 23% of our older population claim to have sex at least once a week. And some of them are 85 years young, which is only not bad, it's actually refreshing and something to look forward to. But for something as pleasurable as touching and kissing, one might reasonably suppose more people would do it not only often, but as often as they physically could.

Somehow, most of mankind has separated the sensual from the spiritual, yet minus the guilt and references to hell, most spiritual practices are very soothing, even sensual, I dare say.  Most spiritual practices employ quietude, meditation or prayer, which automatically stimulates deep breathing and focused minds-the exact ingredients for good sex, I might add.  Or perhaps these aren’t the ingredients for average sex, but instead are akin to the practices of tantric sex.  In any event, what the sensual expression, meditation, prayer and yoga all have in common is the release of hormones like endorphins and serotonin that not only support robust health, but also have the potential to reverse disease.  In other words, prayerful meditation, sexual activity and yoga all reinforce the activity or expression of healthiness.  “Umm, interesting,” you say.

When we meditate long enough we usually find an interior state or Self that is referred to as the 'knowing our true nature'. “To know yourself is to know God”, is what occurs when we mediate or have a deep enough prayer life that involves more listening or feeling than speaking or beseeching.  When we begin to access this state or Self on a regular basis we develop an interior life, an inner life.  As time passes, this inner life begins to feel absolutely delicious and this is sensual to many. This inner merging or aligment causes one to experience a level of excitement for oneself, and this is the result of communing with a part of our self that is bigger and divine.  This aspect of us is so radiant it exudes bliss, heightened exuberance, and that feels very sexy, to put it bluntly. But for those of you who are shocked, let’s define what it is to feel sexy.  One dictionary defines sexy as:  excitingly appealing, and the synonyms it offered were:  passionate and stimulating.  So feeling sexy can have nothing to do with sex and more to do with a heightened sense of feeling extraordinarily great.

The Eastern Indian culture is no stranger to how our sensuality and spirituality meet and merge.  In fact tantric yoga, which branches off into a practice called tantric sex uses the physical act of making love for the specific purpose of attaining a spiritual experience!  When practicing tantric sex the partners use breathing, an open heart, the willingness to vulnerably express their emotions so that their two souls might freely move through their bodies and merge one with the other.  How incredible is that, and what does that mean, some may wonder?  Well, if meditating takes you to a place within that is sacred and blissful; and the manner in which it provides that transportation is wholeheartedly through breathing and inward focusing, then deep breathing and inward focusing during love making takes you right down that very same path.  The reason tantric sex is a practice and not something that every Tom, Dick and Harry experience whenever they have sex, is because most people have no idea of how powerful it is to connect the breath to consciousness.  Many are almost fully unaware of their breathing styles, in fact.  In addition, it is difficult to breathe deeply and in a focused and relaxed manner when you are engaging in sex with someone you don’t trust deeply for this kind of breathing does and is supposed to conjure emotions, some of which create feelings of immense vulnerability and fear.  Once more, when these feeling arise, in tantric sex, you remain connected to them, and this is what deepens the experience, the intimacy, and what brings you to a greater place of spiritual authenticity.  Before I move on, you might find it food for thought to know that in Aramaic the same word is used for both breath and spirit.

Finally, ultimately, what if the spiritual journey is actually about merging with ourselves and consequently feeling so absolutely turned on by the experience of this merging that we simply can’t help but radiate love and kindness to the entire world?  Consider this, if you were actually walking around on a daily basis feeling nearly orgasmic could you really hate, judge or do harm to another at the same time?  The answer is an undoubtedly no.  So ponder the repercussions of this path that simply involves the ecstatic joyous journey inward, and what it might mean if it were true.  For if it were so, wouldn’t it be a lot easier to forego all the hell and brimstone?  If we did forego this, we could just get to the whole loving God and humanity by way of simply feeling so divinely delicious that all we had to give was that same divine deliciousness to others?  Think of how different the world would be if we walked the earth feeling this way.

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