Sensuality is our greatest gateway to our real wealth our health It helps us move towards self love It helps us move towards body acceptance It helps us feel the joy in every day moments more It helps us to listen to our needs and set boundaries It helps us to feel pleasure in life It helps motivate us to achieve our goals and enjoy the journey along the way It helps us enjoy simple things life food our breath a conversation a sunrise doing the washing working and doing chores It helps us feel more whole It helps us to know what makes us tick It helps us feel more connected to ourselves and have more fun with our partners It is limitless on the benefits Many asked me to do a coffee talk to share a bit about it I hope you enjoy Join me for more coffee talks naked movement practices and health and fitness at p treon link in bio or click here first link https www rhyannawatson com insta-offerings My movement is about coming home to your body It is everything I am I teach and embody The Healing Gifts of Eroticism that have nothing to do with Sex There s no greater vengeance against sexual abuse than to reclaim one s full sexuality and celebrate it Esther Perel We ve gotten it so wrong on social media thinking we know what sexuality and eroticism are just by how someone looks And we are damaging the healing process for many with our judgment and our shaming of bodies over what is worn or not Being in our bodies wearing little or a lot is not about performance or results or sexuality It s about coming home to who we truly are before everything life throws at us and changes us into who we need to be to survive Being in our bodies is sensuality that coexists with sexuality it s the experience of life through our senses It s a pleasurable sensual connection that reminds us that life is worth living in every moment even when we are in pain or struggling Making friends with our bodies and feeling it all through our senses allows us to find what turns us on whether that s at work in everyday life in conversations with others in our relationships with what we wear or even with a person we have forgotten how to truly see after so many years together It is the beginning of the best and most powerful healing relationship we will ever have our relationship with ourselves and in turn with life and everything that connects us This relationship with ourselves will create the most empowering whole experience of living we could ever wish for Healing for me came with one of the biggest keys life gives us but also shames us for It was not about how society views sexuality but how it views eroticism Eroticism blooms from the tension between excitation and inhibition and manifests in the things we say and do by how we act and by how we think Esther Perel You see desire is our responsibility and it does not hinder on what someone does or doesn t wear Why Desire is an expression of freedom and our free will Nobody can make us want something only we can activate this desire whether it s for a person place or thing Freedom comes with responsibility as does healing and making a good life for ourselves We can turn ourselves on and we can turn ourselves off in life As a person who has experienced deep depression I know this firsthand Thoughts can both instantly shut me down and instantly open me up to possibility fun curiosity kindness and love so I can enjoy my life I spent many years being numb and it took me many years to reclaim my enlivened state I repeat our greatest relationship we will ever have is the relationship we have with ourselves And this limiting belief that so many of us are taught to have that sexuality and eroticism are about what we wear needs to change We need to reeducate ourselves that it is instead about what turns us on and off in life about what enhances healing and our ability for self-care How many of you have had a sexual interaction naked and you were not turned on Have you ever once found someone extremely sexy and now you no longer desire them Have you ever had a job or activity in your life that you were really excited about and now you find it a chore We tend to think of eroticism as a sexual state shared by two or more people but really it starts with the individual And it requires practice Esther Perel Eroticism is the greatest healer and gift It allows us to develop self-care body love self-love and the ability to live a whole life mentally and physically through the awareness we gain about how to turn ourselves on and off through our thoughts and desires