I feel like so many of us, we can't tune into our pleasure because of this wall that has been created to protect us to keep us safe.

But it's also keeping us from our pleasure. So how can we begin to gently and kindly dissolve this wall?

I love that. And I'm so also glad that you touched on shame because I think shame is a major armoring.

And it keeps us from expressing these things that we've experienced just like you said, and we need spaces to hold us so much more.

And so for me and my work with women, like one of the biggest most foundational pieces and why I do whole day ceremonial containers is because we need the nervous system to get on board.

That is our body's most foundational wiring. And with that, right, we're on this trajectory of safe or not safe.

Can I open and expand into ease and pleasure or am I in protection? Am I literally in survival around this part of me?

And what's happening in the nervous system is that our nervous system directs our blood flow.

So when our nervous system reaches that parasympathetic safe state, it re-orients blood back to our sex centers, back to our womb, back to our deep pelvis.

But when we're not feeling that way, then it's orienting blood flow away from these parts of us.

So now we're literally like to some degree, you could say like malwatered or malnourished in our sexual body because it's not receiving the energy and the blood.

And that alone makes it more hard for us to deeply sense into these spaces.

Welcome back to the Higher Self podcast. My name is Sahara Rose and this podcast is all about taking spirituality and making it modern, ground, feminine, relatable, deeply connected to earth

are pleasure because to me, this is really what the spiritual journey is about.

Growing up, I always kind of subscribe to the more masculine pathway of spirituality like many of us did.

We think God is this angry old man outside of us that's going to punish us for our sins and that our pleasure is wrong and that any kind of desire is distracting and we must divorce ourselves from these sides of ourselves in order to be holy.

And if I learn anything along this journey, it's that quite the opposite is true.

That our pleasure, our desires, our womb, our blood, the earth, the dirt, the soil, the tribal roots, the ancient wisdom, this is truly the spiritual path.

And these things have been forced to be made to believe to be sinful because it's actually where we hold all of our power.

And specifically for us women connecting to our womb spaces. So when I talk about a womb space, this is beyond your physical womb, but this is the sacred womb energy that we all hold and we all carry, including man, the hara center.

So this womb portal is really the hologram that created all of life.

Every single person was printed in the 3D printer of the womb and literally incarnated from the spirit realm into the physical realm through being initiated and nurtured by a womb and then birthed into this reality.

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