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Monday 12 August 2013

Romance, Intimacy & Sex....It All Begins In Your Mind!

 

Did you know that your mind is the largest sex organ you possess?  News to many who think the physical “junk” is.  And because body follows mind, it’s the MIND that dictates how your body responds in the intimacy arena.  And it can be fickle!  Hypnosis happens to be one of the most effective ways of overcoming challenges where your heart and body are concerned. 

The mind stores all of your past emotional hurts, whether they are related to romantic relationships (when you heart was thrashed by a lover who betrayed you/lied to you) or to familial relationships (not having felt loved by a parent as a child). And it does not forget A THING!  It protects you from re-experiencing those wounds, without judgment, even when you  are searching for love and think you deserve it …which you do.  I see many clients in my Practice who have challenges in the heart arena, some resulting in physical issues, because they felt unloved as a child, having a parent or parents who did not demonstrate love either in words (saying “I love you”) or in actions (hugs, kisses). 

In order for many couples to maintain a sexual relationship, one or both have to block out those wounds— to turn off their minds in order to be present in the physical act of sex. Because we are emotional beings, and our mind is the creator of emotions which communicates them to our body through sensations and through our thoughts, it regulates our performance.  This is one reason so many people keep their eyes closed during sex. With eyes closed, you block out what’s really happening and pay attention to the inner movie screen playing out various fantasies. to stay in the moment. That’s not exactly a recipe for either intimacy or eroticism.

Our mind can interrupt the intimacy instantly, often without conscious awareness.  It can mean, for a man, that he can no longer hold his erection.  For a woman, it can mean becoming less lubricated which can cause painful intercourse.  It can also happen due to outside forces. Imagine being in the act of intercourse and you hear your child calling for you in the other room.  Your mind changes course instantly and acts like a rush of water putting out as fire.  The creeping in of thoughts generated from past negative experiences acts in the same way, putting a kibosh on the fun.

If someone has been hurt in the past, he may feel that all women are untrustworthy.  This is a perception and not a fact.  This will certainly lead to difficulty in making long lasting commitments.

If someone has been let down by love, she may feel unworthy of it and lead her down the path of loneliness.  This is also a perception but not fact.

And centered in all of this is our own self esteem which translates to worthiness.  It is the root of the issue.  Hypnosis is simply a tool to access your emotional mind that protects the belief you yourself formed when you didn’t have the facts. And the fact is that whatever happened to compromise your self esteem, whether emotionally unavailable parent or a betraying boyfriend or girlfriend, it did not make you unlovable.  It did not put you at fault. It did not make you ‘less than’.   Hypnotherapy, specifically, can guide you to reeducate your own mind to the truth.  It forgets nothing but can be taught a new thought system.

Reframing of past events, through recollecting, in hypnosis, the content of the event(s) can be the healing balm to sexual fear of intimacy and to physical sexual dysfunctions.  As a Hypnotherapist, my role is to help my clients examine the context of what they learned from the negative experience because, every time, without exception, the context was misunderstood.  We can’t change the content, because what happened DID happen.  But we can change the way you look at it.  We can bring you back to what is the truth – which is that you are lovable and need to love yourself FIRST.  I’ve often said to clients what I believe to be true – our outer world is only an expression of our inner world.  If our lives are loveless, it is because we love ourselves less.  And when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Sexual and romantic intimacy are the foundation of relationships.  We all need to belong, to feel love and to love.  If what I’ve written rings true to you, contact me and let’s talk about you can love yourself which will open you up to receiving love in all areas of your life.

 

 

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