You have to look no further than your own body to understand the connection between pleasure and the second essential element of the Rebirth Journey: Turn On. Our bodies are made for pleasure. Why? Because females have a clitoris with 8000 nerve endings, and it serves no other purpose than to bring us pleasure. In contrast, the multi-functional penis only has about half as many nerve endings. Yet, while most men are intimately familiar with their penis and its many advantages, some women would not even be able to find their clitoris, much less access its full pleasure potential.
Many women sleep walk through life never realizing the pleasure possibilities in their own bodies, while the world is busy making a profit off of their sexuality. Look at any advertisement for cosmetics, fashion or even men’s products. You’re likely to see a sultry model exuding turn on. There’s also an entire sector of the economy that is based on the exploitation of women’s sexual energy – think prostitution, strip clubs and now thousands upon thousands of internet porn sites. Society capitalizes on women’s bodies each and every day, largely to bring pleasure and make money for men.
Meanwhile those of us who actually own those bodies are fretting about our imperfections, flaws and inadequacies. How ironic that men have found a way to profit off of our bodies and find pleasure in them, while we are often busy demeaning ourselves and investing our hard-earned money paying men to improve them through surgical interventions, cosmetic enhancements, or the latest fad diet.
What if you could find a way to take pleasure in your own body and tap into the power of your sexuality? What would happen? You just might find that everything in your life is supercharged. You’ll be in a higher vibration that will naturally attract good things to you. And you’ll in intuitively learn when to dial up your turn on to attract what you want and dial it way down when you it is not safe to be the object of attention.
Napoleon Hill, author of the classic book, Think and Grow Rich, knew the power of turn on when he penned the chapter on Sexual Transmutation. Not surprisingly, most of that chapter – and the entire book in fact – was targeted toward men. But Napoleon himself pointed out that the teachings apply to women as well.
“Wherever there was evidence available in connection with the lives of men and women of great achievement, it indicated most convincingly that they possessed highly developed sex natures. The emotion of sex is an ‘irresistible force’ against which there can be no such opposition as an ‘immovable body.’ When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a super power for action. Understand this truth and you catch the significance of the statement that sex transmutation will lift one to the status of genius.“
Even though that was written in 1937, chances are you have never heard such a message in your lifetime. Napoleon Hill was broadcasting these truths in the midst of the Great Depression. We are in our own kind of depression when we forget we are sexual and sensual beings. Napoleon continues:
“The emotion of sex contains the secret of creative ability. Destroy the sex glands, whether in man or beast, you have removed the major source of action. For proof of this, observe what happens to any animal after it has been castrated. A bull becomes as docile as a cow after it has been altered sexually. Sex alteration takes out of the male, whether man or beast, all the FIGHT that was in him. Sex alteration of the female has the same effect.“
Sadly, sex alteration of women is still happening today, almost 100 years after this book was published. In many parts of the world, women participate in the genital mutilation of their own daughters, having been brainwashed to believe it is a sacred ritual. Historically women’s sexuality has been repressed either through religious teachings or physical restraints such as chastity belts.
So what are some ways you can rekindle your own sexual energy if it has waned or even spark it for the first time? Begin with self-pleasure. Not surprisingly, the same religions that espouse practices like ascetism and hard work, also warn that self-pleasure is a sin. Can you see the connection? Anything that brings pleasure must be a no-no. But think about it. What could possibly be sinful about using your body as it was designed?
Turn on is an area where pleasure research can serve you. Explore the plethora of vibrators that have been designed for women’s bodies. Invest in beautiful lingerie that makes you feel sexy – even if you are the only one who sees it. Start following sexual revolutionaries like Layla Martin, Jaiya, and Pamela Madsen to learn new ways of reaching sexual heights. If you do all of this with a partner, all the better. But you can begin with sex for one since that’s available you anytime you want, no questions asked.
What are some ways that you get into your turn on? Share your ideas in the comments below.
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