Formless Arousal

Conducting sexual energy into the whole body and beyond.

Sexual energy is often an intense driver of search. This exercise is an exploration of searchless sexual pleasure.

• “Locate” the disposition of searchlessness, for example, via the "simplest" exercise of searchlessness.

• Stimulate the body’s energies via stimulation of the genitals. Do not use imagery, whether internal or external, whether visual or auditory or another sense channel, at any point: simply feel the physical sensations. Release any narrative or label associated with the sensations, let their only meaning be sensation itself.

• Once arousal and bodily pleasure is present, here are three energetic stances for exploration:

  • Heart: integrate the energy with all feeling and space by allowing the pleasure to radiate from the heart without limitation into space.

  • Breath: on inhale, breathe the sensation from above the head into the genitals. On exhale, breathe the sensation from the genitals up the spine. This breathing can accumulate great force of sensation.

  • Body: if there is a concentration of energy in the genitals, on the exhale, diffuse the energy throughout the physical body, and beyond. Allow the whole body to become full of pleasurable sensation.

• At some point, satisfaction arrives, and diffuse pleasure throughout the body, without any desire for continued stimulation. Rest in this pleasure for a while, until moved on to ordinary activities.

The disposition and possibilities discovered in this set-aside activity can be brought into partnered sexual activity fruitfully.