Enhancing Sensuality

Do you live a sensual life? Many of us value thinking, reflecting, analyzing, or planning life. Even for those of us who are deeply connected to emotion, we can live in our thoughts about the past or future rather than in moment-by-moment sensing.

We experience the world through our exteroceptors of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling, as well as through our interoceptors of internal sensations including temperature, pressure, and vibration. We can choose to increase our sensory awareness by attending more closely to these experiences. 

Sensuality is our experience of perceiving pleasurable sensations. You may find pleasure in the taste or smell of a food that is sweet, savory, or salty. You may enjoy seeing the sun reflecting on the water. You may like the feel of your favorite shirt on your skin. What are the internal and external sensations you find enjoyable? If you allow yourself to relax and open to pleasure, you can heighten your senses, enhancing each moment. 

Do you want to extend your sensual experience into a sexual experience? Allow your body to lead and your mind to follow, interpreting your sensual experience through an erotic lens. You can be turned on by your lover’s scent, voice, smile, taste of their skin, or feel of their body against yours. You can be turned on by anything about your lover, your environment, or yourself that you eroticize. What type of sensory experiences are erotic for you?