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icon:: 📖 purchased:: Jan 3rd, 2023 start:: Jan 3rd, 2023 end:: published:: length:: author:: cover:: reading-time:: score:: - Ideas - Suppressing Breath collapsed:: true - Breath is the way our bodies make love with God. When we are willing to be love, then we are willing to breathe love. When we are unwilling to be love, when we resist the spontaneous expression of our deep and natural openness of being, then we suppress our breath. Our belly constricts. Our heart tightens. Inside, we tie ourselves in knots and become endarkened. Our entire body clenches the flow of energy that wants to shine through us. We suffer our refusal of divine openness. We suffer our refusal to live as love. - We can begin to open by learning to feel love’s light as sexual energy. - What does your internal sexual energy feel like? - #+BEGIN_NOTE carnal, animal, to dominate, to pin down, to grab with both hands pull and thump down hard on ground, to make it scream in ecstasy, to ultimately burn out into ashes, butn the superficial, awareness remains, then something gentle is reborn hmm #+END_NOTE - - Technical Practice - Sensitivity alone may allow you to feel through the edges of the moment into innate openness, but your bodily habits will remain unchanged and so your realization of openness will remain short-lived; you will be distracted by your familiar emotional neediness and physiological obstructions. - Technical practice involves learning to circulate energy down the front of your body and upward along your spine in coordination with the breath. Contracting your pelvic floor allows you to seal it against leakage as well as “bounce” energy upward. Turning your eyes upward sometimes helps energy to flow up along your spine into and through your head. Pressing your tongue gently against the roof of your mouth allows energy to flow more fully down from your head through your throat and heart into your belly. Softening your belly and chest allows your front to conduct and hold more energy. - All day, whenever you can remember to do so, it is helpful to practice receiving energy fully while inhaling deep into your belly, as well as releasing energy fully while exhaling upward along the spine. You can also practice contracting your pelvic floor periodically throughout the day. Then, when you are in the midst of sex, the basic circulation of breath and energy will already be in place. - Love itself is a practice. id:: 63dcefd4-d3d3-4396-829c-68e3305a7fc0 - Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather hide. - If you are like most people, most of the time, you are probably reducing love, over and over, in similar ways: Your genitals are about to burst from pleasure, so this moment of love becomes reduced to attention on a few square inches of pressure and juice. - Your partner criticizes you and so love collapses into hurt, closure, and anger. You try oh-so-hard to bypass ejaculation and end up diligently narrowing love into mechanical effort, forgetting to feel your partner, the room, and the entire world. id:: 63dcf04e-7b84-4458-862e-7e0a918d18b3 - Love is recognizing, now, that without changing anything whatsoever, the openness of this moment is who you are. - Highlights - Love’s light seeks expression through our bodies, one way or another. - The deep peace I have always wanted is not in events id:: 63dceff6-ac88-418e-89ce-995c7e16aa54