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So for anyone who has either hangups
from the way that they were socialized around sex,
or even sexual trauma,
what is your feedback or advice for them?
It's individual.
You know... trauma is
very...
Hmmm...
very...
traum... as the word itself implies.
Trauma lives in the body, in cells, as
memories,
and it can influence
every aspect of a person in social behavior.
So I would say that... if somebody... has
this kind of trauma, and guilt, and shame, and anxiety about it,
they would need some kind of therapy.
Now I don't personally
believe in all therapies that people have
because all they do is keep
going to the therapist.
Examining it for 40 years
They're still blaming their mom for
something, or their girlfriend,
or... their politician or if nobody, Donald Trump or you know... somebody.
There's somebody to blame!
The Communists, the government...
So, I recently am embracing something called
awareness based cognitive therapy.
And we can talk about it at a certain time.
But it is...
how do you free yourself from any
experience?
Once you free yourself,
and you realize that awareness, who you are is inherently free,
then you are at liberty to choose your experiences.
Enjoy them. And also not be bound by them.
You know it's not... you cannot have an experience in its fullness
if you're bound by it.
I don't know if that makes sense.
It makes perfect sense.
Okay. So that's the key.
To have the
fullness of experience,
and not be imprisoned by it.
That's what, you know, in
eastern wisdom traditions is called karma,
or bondage.
But it's a process and I think
most people actually who are asexual, or don't
have sexual vitality,
or you know...
don't feel sexually attractive, or are sending
out the message of sexual attraction.
They are either oppressed, or they have guilt, or they have shame,
or they had these imposed ideas which are socially..
programmed in our psyche.
It's going to be a long time before people
find liberation in sexual experience.
And actually recognize it as a spiritual
experience
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