When people hear the word Tantra, they often 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 attribute of my life.
Very like now, after embarking on the Tantric path, I became aware of a quieting down in the mind, something I had been trying to accomplish for second childhood to no avail. This alone helped me to reduce my stress levels. But that’ s not all; that was only the infancy.
Now, after 10 dotage of practicing Tantra, I am aware that I am not suffering
anymore about portion 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 marbles, 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 principally inside yourself.
Some say Tantra began in ancient Egypt, others hold forth it began 3000 to 5000 oldness ago in India. In conclusion, it is comprised of several esoteric traditions fathomless 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 preoccupation 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?
Ultimately people feel little if gadget. They are principally living their lives inside of their thoughts, judgments, evaluations and assessments: living in their society. 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 moderately than a sensuous experience, one that is felt in the body.
Look back really enthusiasm something like a new car? Then when you got it, the pleasure didn ' t last very long, conceivably until the first scratch. It wasn ' t the tactility you expected from acquiring a new car was it?
The mind can think something or other will bring us a innervation of pleasure, but it truly takes the body to feel it. For many people, motility strongly passionately was discouraged. We were told we had to stay in oversight of ourselves, of our emotions..
Things were uttered to us like, " Why do you feel like that? That ' s not mental. ”
So, we learned to cover our feelings and experience life in our folk. Our bodies became useful for fatiguing decorative adornments ( attraction ) and for getting us someday like from nooner to concourse ( little 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 locus on breathing.
When we look to find pleasure there never seems to be enough time. Due to we’ re so disconnected, no thing lives up to our expectations. Or possibly, just perhaps, all those feelings we ' ve been return down are likely to come rushing up and we can’ t have that, can we?
That ' s right, feelings, emotions, reasoning, memories will usually come up during Tantric practice. And then what do we do? Who has time for that anyway? What if we go out of limitation? 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 understanding, 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 support you a sense of civil and peace in your every day with minimum intention. While practicing you headquarters on dawn to pleasure. How bad could that be?
Agree, 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 recent using emotional release techniques. We also learn to transmute the sexual energy into a spiritual connection with our " higher selves. "
The development is eradication of feelings of discredit and encumbrance 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 militant life at it ' s fullest - body, mind and spirit connected working in union.
Remind when I began Tantra I had no thought how my life would change. Had I known, I would have become stirred in it earlier in life. Is my life juicier? Just so. Is that all? No. It ' s so much more. I highly sponsor 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 downreaching painful cellular memories; feel safe and whole.
3. Headquarters - set your intentions, do the practices and watch the laws of attraction bring what you want i. e. life partner, more $, career change
4. Stand your relationships - regard others for who they really are, relate to their low divine nature and trust your intuition
5. Experience the expression of your deepest emotions. Know rhapsody, love, passion and beyond! Become your own sweetheart!
* taken from a serendipitous model of 500 Tantra students who have participated in Butterfly Workshops ' programs.
