The best sex is rarely spontaneous. Or if it is, it’s because the conditions were right for it be ‘spontaneous’. People often complain to me that their sex isn’t spontaneous. As though that’s a bad thing. They often reminisce about the early days when sex was so easy and apparently ‘spontaneous’. But, I challenge them, was it really spontaneous? I point out that back then sex was anything but spontaneous: there were days of anticipation, thinking about your new love interest, you’d spend time preparing to meet, looking good. Then when you met, you’d be doing interesting things, you were fascinated in each other, you’d spend hours talking or dancing or having fun. So, by the time you got home you couldn’t wait to rip your clothes off…. That wasn’t spontaneous. There were days and hours of looking forward to, thinking about, engaging with, before you got sexual.
I had a client come to see me this morning. She opened up with: “I don’t want to be here as I know you are going to judge me.” She then confessed that she finds a work colleague attractive. And then went into a long, confused, fraught spiel about what it did or didn’t mean.
When a wine ages well it becomes more complex, layered, subtle. You want to savour the experience of drinking it, not guzzle it down. Sex that ages well is the same. Mature sex takes its time, appreciates all aspects of the experience, doesn’t set out to hit ‘goals’, just enjoys the experience as it unfolds.
If you both happen to be feeling horny at the same time, great, have sex. But chances are you’re not always feeling horny at the same time. So, what do you do? Nothing?
We tend to think that the definition of ‘libido’ is sex drive, how much you want sex, or how often you get horny. But the original meaning of the word libido is life force energy. I think that is a much better way to conceptualise libido.
Client after client sits on the couch in my consulting room wishing they didn’t have their sexual difficulties and were ‘normal’. After hearing their stories, I give them both the bad news and the good news – they are ‘normal’. In our society sexual struggles, difficulties are confusions are the norm. It’s a rare person who is totally comfortable in their sexuality.
Some days into my last couples retreat in Bali we were in a group discussion when one of the participants said that what he and his partner were experiencing, based on what I was sharing and teaching, felt like a ‘practice’. Just as they had regular meditation practices, this approach to sexual intimacy had the same qualities. I think that is an excellent way of conceptualising the approach to sex that I encourage.
The best sex is rarely spontaneous. Or if it is, it’s because the conditions were right for it be ‘spontaneous’. People often complain to me that their sex isn’t spontaneous. As though that’s a bad thing. They often reminisce about the early days when sex was so easy and apparently ‘spontaneous’. But, I challenge them, was it really spontaneous? I point out that back then sex was anything but spontaneous: there were days of anticipation, thinking about your new love interest, you’d spend time preparing to meet, looking good. Then when you met, you’d be doing interesting things, you were fascinated in each other, you’d spend hours talking or dancing or having fun. So, by the time you got home you couldn’t wait to rip your clothes off….
One of the biggest impediments to a good sex life that I see over and over again, is the assumption that certain activities must inevitably lead to sex. These activities, a look, a touch, a kiss, are seen as a ‘green light’ that leads to the chain of events generally referred to as ‘sex’ which have as their main KPIs intercourse (if you’re heterosexual) and orgasms (whatever your orientation).
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भारत में वैदिक काल से ही ज्योतिषीय गणनाओं का प्रयोग होता रहा है। वैदिक ऋषियों ने यद्यपि इसे अधिक उपयोगी व सारगर्भित बनाते हुए काल गणना के क्रम का निरधारण सूर्य व चंद्रमा की गतियों के द्वारा किया। वैदिक यज्ञों की सम्पन्नता हेतु शुभ समय का निर्धारण व समाजिक जीवन के तिथि पर्व सहित कृषि आदि राजकीय व्यवस्थाओं के संचालन में वैदिक काल में भारतीय वैदिक ज्योतिष के प्रयोग के संबंध में स्थान-स्थान पर जानकारी प्राप्त होती है। ऋग्वेद काल में भारतीय ऋषियों द्वारा चंद्र व सौर वर्षगणना के ज्ञान को विस्तारित किया गया था। इसी प्रकार दिन व दिनमान, रात्रिमान नक्षत्र, ग्रह व राशियों का भली-भांति ज्ञान अर्जित कर उनके शुभाशुभ प्रभाव को लोक हितार्थ प्रेषित किया करते थे।