Mindfulness for Better Sex

Sex With Emily

Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.2 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today I’m joined by meditation teacher, speaker, and author Light Watkins to share how we can better practice mindfulness in and outside of the bedroom. We discuss how meditation can transform relationships, reduce stress, and allow you to be more present during all areas of your life—including sex. Plus, we’re sharing easy hacks to curate a meditation routine, how you can cultivate happiness and fulfillment, and why training your brain is important to your overall well-being. Light also shares the ways that sex is similar to meditation, the importance of following your intuition, how to foster true positive change, and the best ways to maintain a gratitude practice. In this episode, you’ll learn: How meditation enhances your sex life and keeps you present. Why managing stress is the secret to better relationships. Simple gratitude hacks to transform your mindset. Show Notes: More Light Watkins: Instagram | Twitter | YouTube | Website | Podcast | Book Join the SmartSX Membership: Access exclusive sex coaching, live expert sessions, community building, and tools to enhance your pleasure and relationships with Dr. Emily Morse. Yes! No! Maybe? List & Other Sex With Emily Guides: Explore pleasure, deepen connections, and enhance intimacy using these Sex With Emily downloadable guides. SHOP WITH EMILY! (free shipping on orders over $99) The only sex book you’ll ever need: Smart Sex: How to Boost Your Sex IQ and Own Your Pleasure Want more? Visit the Sex With Emily Website Let’s get social: Instagram | X | Facebook | TikTok | Threads | YouTube Let’s text: Sign up here Want me to slide into your email inbox? Sign Up Here for sex tips on the regular. See the full show notes at sexwithemily.com

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0:00.0	I don't have time is like Raiders of the Lost Art.
0:11.0	It's like Star Wars.
0:13.0	It's not real.
0:14.0	It sounds great.
0:15.0	It's exciting to say I don't have time and I'm doing all this.
0:18.0	But it's a fictional story that you created to justify
0:22.5	whatever dramas or adventures you find yourself on, you know, and we all do it.
0:29.9	You're listening to Sex with Emily. I'm Dr. Emily and I'm here to help you prioritize your pleasure
0:35.6	and liberate the conversation around sex. Today we are going to liberate it. I'm here to help you prioritize your pleasure and liberate the conversation around sex.
0:39.5	Today we are going to liberate it. I'm joined by a meditation teacher, speaker, and author
0:44.6	Light Watkins. And we talk about practicing mindfulness and meditation, how it can help you
0:50.9	in and out of the bedroom. I really enjoyed this talk with Light Watkins.
0:55.7	After listening, I thought there's some things I wanted to share with you before you get into
0:59.8	the interview. First, we mentioned meditation. We talk about it a lot, but maybe you've never
1:05.0	meditated before. Or maybe you're like, that's not for me. I tried it once. But I thought I could
1:09.7	share with you my own
1:11.6	practice and how I've finally gotten to the point in my life where meditation is actually something
1:17.9	that I crave, that I know that I feel better when I do it than when I don't do it. So I started out,
1:25.7	like 20 years ago, I went on this 10-day silent meditation retreat in
1:29.8	Thailand. And for years, I'd been hearing that I should meditate. I'd gone through, you know,
1:35.7	my father died and there was a lot going out of my life. And I just thought meditation would be
1:41.0	the key. Okay. That's going to be the thing that's going to cure what else me.
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