When people hear the word Tantra, they oftentimes think of the esoteric postures depicted in the Kama Sutra. That ' s if they ' ve heard of it at all. Personally, I have found many unexpected health benefits from practicing this ancient form of meditation and related breath practices.
When I began Tantra in 1996, I had no concept back then how powerful Tantra was to become in every angle of my life.
Very first off, after embarking on the Tantric path, I became aware of a quieting down in the mind, something I had been trying to accomplish for senility to no avail. This alone helped me to reduce my stress levels. But that’ s not all; that was only the jumping-off place.
Now, after 10 oldness of practicing Tantra, I am aware that I am not suffering
anymore about substance physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. Did I know this would happen to me? No way.
Tantra roughly translated means “ to weave” body, mind and spirit. What this literally means is that you can expand your whole being through increased awareness of your mentality, feelings and energy. This includes awareness of your breath - the basis of all forms of meditation - with the addition of your sexual energy increasing your ability to feel - specifically feel pleasure – very different from other forms of meditation. It is important to note that the sexual union depicted in Tantric paintings and carved onto temple walls is symbolic of what can be achieved by joining feminine and mainly energy largely inside yourself.
Some say Tantra began in ancient Egypt, others ventilate it began 3000 to 5000 caducity ago in India. Yet, it is comprised of several esoteric traditions low in the religions of India including Hindu, Jain and Bonpo. Aspects of Tantra can even be found in the ancient Kabala. Most of its practitioners were scattered throughout Asia in India, China, Tibet, Japan, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Indonesia and Mongolia until recently when it became of thing to people in the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and throughout Europe.
So how can Tantra affect your health? Why is it a holistic form of healing?
Sequentially people feel little if shape. They are chiefly living their lives inside of their thoughts, judgments, evaluations and assessments: living in their nation. When their bodies give signals, they miss or ignore them as they are trained to value only what the mind thinks. So most people are numb or they do not feel very good. When they do feel, it appears that they feel bad, sick, hurt, victimized. There is very little room for pleasure. As a matter of gospel they feel little to no pleasure at all. Pleasure shows up as anticipation quite than a seductive experience, one that is felt in the body.
Recollect really crave something like a new car? Then when you got it, the pleasure didn ' t last very long, perhaps until the first scratch. It wasn ' t the sensibility you expected from acquiring a new car was it?
The mind can imagine something or other will bring us a receptivity of pleasure, but it purely takes the body to feel it. For many people, awareness strongly passionately was discouraged. We were told we had to stay in predomination of ourselves, of our emotions..
Things were oral to us like, " Why do you feel like that? That ' s not logical. ”
So, we learned to lock up our feelings and experience life in our humankind. Our bodies became useful for exhausting decorative adornments ( attraction ) and for getting us in conclusion like from get-together to meeting ( limited movement ). In essence our bodies have become something we do to or use in certain ways, but not a source of inner knowledge. Not bad, just not pleasurable; not healthy either.
Many people have become automatons rushing to work, doing, doing, doing. But when it comes time to relax, take a breath, we cannot seem to do it. For most people, it ' s a little frightening to stop and nerve center on breathing.
When we look to find pleasure there never seems to be enough time. Being we’ re so disconnected, wind lives up to our expectations. Or possibly, just feasibly, all those feelings we ' ve been take down are likely to come rushing up and we can’ t have that, can we?
That ' s right, feelings, emotions, reasoning, memories will ofttimes come up during Tantric practice. And then what do we do? Who has time for that anyway? What if we go out of supremacy? Who wants to experience that?
You do!
Why is this so important?
You want to feel all of those feelings so you can increase your capacity for pleasure. It ' s your birthright to feel pleasure and it ' s an aspect of life to feel sensations. In essence, it ' s an act of honoring yourself.
When you start this way of breathing and sharp, you will naturally feel better, happier, passionate, more alive. The operative word here is " naturally. " It is our nature to feel.
Plus it’ s easy and takes very little time to make a difference in your life. Any one of many techniques can move you a sense of windless and peace in your every day with minimum attempt. While practicing you polestar on inauguration to pleasure. How bad could that be?
Shake hands, how?
In Tantra we learn to breathe along with doing Kegel exercises and making sounds. So, we learn how to breathe properly. Then we add sphincter muscle and PC muscle contractions to build a charge in our own body using the vital life force - sexual energy. Along with the squeezing of the sphincter muscles, we add making sounds like “ Oooo and Ahhhh. ” This eventually enables us to feel all our feelings.
Once we feel them, we learn to release stored toxic feelings and memories from the former using emotional release techniques. We also learn to transmute the sexual energy into a spiritual connection with our " higher selves. "
The settlement is eradication of feelings of humiliation and answerability as well as any other trauma we may have experienced earlier in our lives that ' s has been stored in our cellular memory.
The outcome = pleasure, permission for reckless life at it ' s fullest - body, mind and spirit connected working in union.
Retrospect when I began Tantra I had no abstraction how my life would change. Had I known, I would have become moved in it earlier in life. Is my life juicier? Just so. Is that all? No. It ' s so much more. I highly popularize you try it too.
The Holistic Benefits of Practicing Tantra *:
1. Feel great about yourself - more attractive, self - confident, increase your capacity for more pleasure, experience joy and fulfillment as a way of life.
2. Empower your well - being - eliminate toxins, eliminate stress - accept yourself for who you are & release beneath painful cellular memories; feel safe and whole.
3. Center - set your intentions, do the practices and wristwatch the laws of attraction bring what you want i. e. life partner, more $, career change
4. Stand your relationships - clock others for who they really are, relate to their submerged divine nature and trust your intuition
5. Experience the expression of your deepest emotions. Know joy, love, passion and beyond! Become your own lover!
* taken from a chance model of 500 Tantra students who have participated in Butterfly Workshops ' programs.
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