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At some point, an orgasm, having an orgasm, achieving an orgasm became the thing.

This became the benchmark by which all sexual experiences were measured, and with this, we cut out enormous pleasure possibilities.

We created a model of performance for sex, which often is not about pleasure—it’s about having an orgasm. Intimacy, connection—even love—is often secondary in this.

We’ve created a space where the power dynamic has put pleasure in the hands (or other things) of someone who has to give you an orgasm—has to make you come. And if you don’t, then something is wrong.

It’s ego sex, friction sex, judgment sex; it’s doing sex.

And in this, some people will do it better than others and therefore achieve, that word again—greater satisfaction. The phrases sexual satisfaction, sexual gratification, have become so linked to orgasm.

Let’s take the orgasm away for a while. Let’s talk about being orgasmic:

In the ocean of pleasure, which has limitless possibilities, an orgasm is but one stream. And maybe, just maybe, because for so long we’ve been convinced that a few contractions (and a short-lived explosion) is an orgasm, we’ve lost sight of the fact that there are other experiences that are of orgasm and orgasmic.

And let’s talk about the fact that for so long so many women have been judged less than, lacking—even sexually incomplete—for not having an orgasm. And if their lovers can’t make this happen then they’re incomplete, incompetent, less than, ego bashed men or women.

When we make sex about orgasm—and it doesn’t happen—we create stress. We know that stress is the greatest cause of illness, disease, dis-ease, and more.

Intimate, tender, connected, loving sex produces the most amazing chemicals in the body to create relaxation, health, and so many other healing states.  It’s one of our body’s most amazing abilities as a self-regulating, self-healing organism.

When we’re striving for an orgasm we’re a little off the path. And when sex can be about intimacy, and it becomes about orgasm, we’re, once again, a little off the path.

Let’s put expectations aside, while I digress for a moment here.

When it becomes about being orgasmic, things change. Let’s change the pattern:

>> How much of what we experience during sex is what we expect to feel, rather than what we do feel?

>> How much of our experience is based on the past rather than what is?

Joe Dispenza talks about much of what we do is actually living a memory. When we do the same thing all the time (as so many of us do and have done for so long), our bodies follow a pattern.

We don’t connect with what we’re really experiencing right now, and we’re not really present. And more than that, when we’re doing what we need to do to have an orgasm, we’re not so present either, because we’re focusing on what we have to do to get there—as if there was everything.

Let’s change the pattern. Let’s slow it down. Let’s allow ourselves to feel.

Let’s learn to follow the sensations; allow them to develop, to deepen, to expand to see where they go, to follow them as they move through the body.

Let’s stop and breathe. The pattern is big here.

Our bodies know what we need to do, or not, to have an orgasm. It becomes a pattern. When we change that; when we begin exploring what orgasmic means—when we begin feeling different things—we have to understand that it takes some time to create new connections. In one way, the orgasm has disconnected us from being orgasmic because it’s all we focus on.

In this ocean of pleasure exploration, curiosity and allowing may take time; we’re creating new patterns and expanding our pleasure possibilities—be patient.

An orgasm is often the end; orgasmic is the beginning.
It’s becoming, and becoming is expansive.
It’s liberating. It’s creative. It’s limitless.

It’s love for yourself—it’s love for life.

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