When people hear the word Tantra, they generally 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 aspect of my life.
Very right away, after embarking on the Tantric path, I became aware of a quieting down in the mind, something I had been trying to accomplish for elderliness to no avail. This alone helped me to reduce my stress levels. But that’ s not all; that was only the introduction.
Now, after 10 oldness of practicing Tantra, I am aware that I am not suffering
anymore about phenomenon 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 brains, 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 male energy chiefly inside yourself.
Some say Tantra began in ancient Egypt, others rap it began 3000 to 5000 senility ago in India. Ultimately, it is comprised of several esoteric traditions inmost 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 matter 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?
Fundamentally people feel little if element. They are principally living their lives inside of their thoughts, judgments, evaluations and assessments: living in their hoi polloi. When their bodies give signals, they miss or ignore them in that 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 reality they feel little to no pleasure at all. Pleasure shows up as anticipation quite than a blue experience, one that is felt in the body.
Learn 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 touch you expected from acquiring a new car was it?
The mind can project something or other will bring us a sensibility of pleasure, but it all takes the body to feel it. For many people, pleasure strongly passionately was discouraged. We were told we had to stay in restriction of ourselves, of our emotions..
Things were spoken to us like, " Why do you feel like that? That ' s not logical. ”
So, we learned to shelter our feelings and experience life in our clan. Our bodies became useful for tiring decorative adornments ( attraction ) and for getting us yet like from competition to introduction ( 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 core on breathing.
When we look to find pleasure there never seems to be enough time. Over we’ re so disconnected, extinction lives up to our expectations. Or perhaps, just conceivably, all those feelings we ' ve been share down are likely to come rushing up and we can’ t have that, can we?
That ' s right, feelings, emotions, wisdom, memories will recurrently come up during Tantric practice. And then what do we do? Who has time for that anyway? What if we go out of jurisdiction? 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 angle of life to feel sensations. In essence, it ' s an act of honoring yourself.
When you start this way of breathing and prudent, 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 shlep you a sense of low-key and peace in your every day with minimum exertion. While practicing you core on inauguration to pleasure. How bad could that be?
Concur, 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 preceding using emotional release techniques. We also learn to transmute the sexual energy into a spiritual connection with our " higher selves. "
The eventuality is eradication of feelings of obloquy and engagement 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 spunky life at it ' s fullest - body, mind and spirit connected working in union.
Extract when I began Tantra I had no abstraction how my life would change. Had I known, I would have become really into in it earlier in life. Is my life juicier? Definitely. Is that all? No. It ' s so much more. I highly benefit 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 deep-seated painful cellular memories; feel safe and whole.
3. Polestar - set your intentions, do the practices and analog watch the laws of attraction bring what you want i. e. life partner, more $, career change
4. Hoist your relationships - heed others for who they really are, relate to their bottomless divine nature and trust your intuition
5. Experience the expression of your deepest emotions. Know exaltation, love, passion and beyond! Become your own betrothed!
* taken from a arbitrary pattern of 500 Tantra students who have participated in Butterfly Workshops ' programs.
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