Increase your creativity by practicing tantra
What does creativity have to do with tantra? Tantra is a practice that connects us with our inherent creative energy by bringing awareness to our energy body. There is a current that runs through us all the time and we can use it to feed all facets of our lives. Let’s analyze this concept a little more.
The ancient yogis used the term ‘Kundalini’ or ‘life force’ to describe the energy that flows through us. This energy is with us from the moment we are conceived until the moment we leave this planet. It is inherently creative in nature, as it literally creates life. The very act of conceiving a baby is creative. None of us would be here on this planet, reading this article, without this life-giving energy. Sex energy, therefore, is life force energy. And through tantric practice we learn how to access our life force, sexual energy, the essence of life, to imbue every aspect of ourselves.
There are two dimensions to the energy of the sexual life force:
Dimension 1
The first dimension is the creative spark that fuels and sustains us throughout our lives.
Dimension 2
The second dimension is the pleasure integrated into the sexual energy.
Drowning the creative energy
Now, what happens when the sexual energy drowns or contracts? We lose access to our creative Self. This is what has been happening throughout the millennia: the shame, guilt, and error of sexuality that results in being disconnected from a life force within us.
Today we see the results of this repression through the breakdown of our relationships, as manifested in the Catholic Church, for example, or through the #MeToo movement. When sexual energy is repressed, it tends to go “sideways” in unhealthy ways, such as through abuse, assault, and sexual harassment. From an early age, people are told, “Don’t turn to your sexual energy. Don’t touch yourself. Wait until you’re married.” As if sexual energy is suddenly available to you.
Releasing your creative self
The reality is that your sexual energy has always been available to you from the moment you were born. We can feel very pleasant when we are babies and children. The simple act of touching can be pleasant, or even the gentle breeze blowing on your skin. All of this is considered in the range of energy and sexual senses. But very few people have grown up in an environment that teaches sexual energy as a healthy and beautiful expression of oneself. Most of the people do not know how to have a healthy relationship with the energy of their sexual life force, which is why all the breakdowns are happening.
I remember my dad calling me a whore the first time I had sex at 18. Although I disagreed with him, I was left with a sense of shame and a feeling of diminishment as a woman. It took a lot of self-discovery and work to reconnect with the energy of my life force in order to learn to imbue my whole life, my health, my well-being, my work, with that wonderful creative essence.
Once I had access to my creative energy again, it was clear to me what I wanted to dedicate my life to and what I had come to do on this planet in the first place. Up to that point, I had pursued a couple of different careers, but felt no passion until I had done my own healing of my sexual wounds and broke free. Becoming a Tantra teacher was then the natural expression of my creative spark.
Once the sexual life force energy is released, we can use it to connect and heal our body, heart, and spirit. We can then channel this life-giving energy through our physical and energetic bodies into our life activities.
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