Sensuality vs sexuality....not the same!
Sensuality is different than sexuality, and it is an important distinction.
Sensuality and sexuality are often lumped into the same category, but they are two very different qualities. They each have their own unique capacities that contribute to our well-being in different ways. Sensual is not vulgar and always sexual. And sexual is not always sensual.
Sensuality is essentially our ability to feel pleasurable sensation through our senses of touch, scent, taste, sight and sound. Savoring decadent foods, feeling the texture of earth against bare feet, being grounded in the body, walking in a way that we are in full awareness of the sensation of the air against our face, and the caress of our own skin.
These sensual experiences are pleasurable, but don't have to be connected to anything sexual or erotic. We can be sensual in the way we interact and move. We can experience so much pleasure in the mundane tasks when we connect with our feeling body.
Sensuality brings the vitality to our every day lives. We can embody it in our smiles, passion, actions, words, expressions for all that is and isn’t involving sex.
Sexuality is often exploited in our media: TV, music, movies, marketing and advertising. The problem with our society is that we label certain behaviors or attitudes as sexual not sensual. This is because of social conditioning and fears around what it means to be sexy, a sexual being, or just really expressive.
The book Return to the Brain of Eden, Tony Wright summed up the problem faced by our contemporary society as follows:
“We are addicted to sex, but could part of this be an addiction to the feeling we get from being momentarily free from our ego-based, fear-ridden, left-hemisphere sense of self? Is the sexual drive, which has reached obsessive levels in our society today, as result of a striving to regain something that in our deepest being we know we have lost? At some fundamental level we know there is something more to the sexual experience, but because we don’t know where to look, the desire becomes attached to a whole raft of sexual expression, from glossy car ad to deepest depravity.”
Namaste ~ Paulina
Hello, my name is Paulina. I went thru a spiritual awakening journey in 2018. I am in touch with my higher self and want to help you find yours. Until your higher self kicks in let me be your guide back home. Book 1:1 sessions with me: www.fromanotherealm.com
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