What Is Sensuality and What Are Its Benefits?

In Episode 03 of the Shalemess Wisdom Podcast with Natacha Guyot, PhD, we talk about what sensuality is and how it can benefit every aspect of your life. We're also sharing a simple and free way to start tapping into your senses for more fun and pleasure in your life.

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We often talk about the importance of rest, so we have some harmony between work and rest. However, one critical component we do not talk enough about is play.

Play makes a huge difference in having a fulfilling life.

One of the building blocks for satisfying play is sensuality. So, what is sensuality? Many definitions of the word focus almost solely on its sexual aspect and can get a bad reputation because of the patriarchy.

After all, the patriarchy highly dislikes when we may not only enjoy themselves but have agency over how it happens.

My definition of sensuality is a grounded pleasurable experience that may or may not be sexual, and that involves any of the six senses.

Six senses?

I promise you I know how to do math, but the way I approach it is that beyond the five typical senses, which are sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, I also bring in the brain.

After all, the brain plays a huge part in our life, and here I am not talking about, you know, how we get caught up in our mind, but really how we can get brain tingles, brain happies, however you want to name it, when we engage in certain practices, making them especially pleasurable.

For example, storytelling can really be such an immersive experience, and our brains play a critical role in them. This really helps us explore and show the territories of ourselves or return to spaces and experiences that bring us a lot of pleasure.

Now that we have a clear understanding of what sensuality is, let's talk about its benefits for everybody.

Again, sensuality does not require you to engage in intimate acts, whether on your own or with one or more partners.

It can really benefit allosexual people as well as asexual people, basically everybody.

Some of the benefits of exploring your sensual self and really tapping into your sensuality include self-discovery, curiosity, self-awareness, and really tapping into your power in your agency as you explore what you love and what you enjoy in a really independent way.

Tapping into your sensuality can also help boost your confidence and help you detangle yourself from the societal conditioning and dismantle the patriarchy, one sensual activity at a time.

Sensuality invites you as well to really be present, and as you really learn to know yourself more and really tap into this part of yourself, it brings ripple effects in all areas of your life. Personal, of course, but also professional, maybe spiritual, or even creative.

So now you may wonder how do you start exploring your sensual self?

The good news is that you can do that completely on your own if it's your choice, and you can start as small and slow as you would like.

This is your own journey.

You get to decide how you want it to happen.

And if you would like some suggestions on how to get started, I've got you covered. I recently released a brand-new sensuality workbook that is completely beginner friendly, and that offers you suggestions based on each of the six cents we've covered, whether you choose to have a non-sexual experience or a more intimate one.

You can find the link in the description below.

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