“The interference of the roof brain with the sexual function is peculiar to man and a source, as Freud never wearied of proclaiming, of much of what passes for “mental” illness. It seems to be characteristic of the human animal that it cannot accept its sexual function in the same uncritical way as it accepts its need for food and air. Both the intellectual and the emotional centres interfere with this function, and their interference, in many cases, is disastrous in its effects. Indeed, some of the most horrendous doings in the history of the “bloodstained hominid” (the witch hysteria of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, for example) were the direct outcome for the interference of these centres with the sexual function.”
Robert De Ropp – The Master Game: Pathways to higher consciousness beyond the drug experience
Most of society has been trained to only pay attention to our body when we are in pain. We have quite the tainted relationship with it, and hence, hopefully a continued cultural interest of embodied self awareness practices grows such as somatic healing, wim hoff, yoga, tai chi, and other movement based practices.
Being connected to the body is a gateway for your consciousness to express yourself, your needs, your ambitions, your desires, your intention, your purpose, your talents and skills.
Being ‘embodied’ anchors experience from just a ‘concept’ into an actual experience.
And most of us are trained to only be in our body when we have a problem.
This training, in my humble opinion, is a big reason why distrust for the body exists…we don’t know it, we don’t have a relationship with it, and when we are forced to be ‘with it’ whether it be a sickness, illness or pain, we collectively are “out to lunch” and don’t know what to do.
And since the relationship is off, we turn our power over to ‘authorities’ to tell us what’s wrong with us and what to do.
And much of this slight resistance to a deepening of a relationship comes down to our relationship with the lower centres of energy, some of which involve our sexuality.
I’m not a sex expert, nor claim to know all the nuances. I can, though, appreciate the deleterious effects of as De Ropp says, “…being raised in a culture which still tends to put sex in a big black box and hide it under the bed…”
Secrecy, regardless of its context, is an energy of “rigid withhold”, and is embodied through a “tight mind, tight lips, tight being”.
And the more you embrace all of your parts, and love all aspects of you, and not keep those secrets (from yourself), you open up to a new embodied energy source, connection to the body, and freedom from within.
You may not need to ‘go after’ sexuality in and of itself. It may be more than enough to begin to just deepen the relationship with your body, breathing deep into the lower pelvis, feeling the body more and more of the time, and cultivating greater awareness for the body as a vehicle of consciousness and expression.
That can be more than enough.
In fact, it most likely is.
Repetition wins.
Connect, Feel, Breathe, repeat.
See you next week!
Dr. Steve
