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This brief explanation of Tantra is for those
whose time is limited and who want straight-forward information, avoiding
sometimes confusing language. I hope it will inspire you to go
deeper into Tantra if this approach to life is for you. Personal
experience and living your life tantrically is the best way to
know tantra.
Tantra is about energy and consciousness. It
teaches us to become aware of the energy that surrounds us, and
is within us. We can learn to use it and expand it to achieve
a myriad of positive results, such as improved health, sexual
bliss, physical rejuvenation, and spiritual enlightenment.
Tantra is a positive attitude toward all of
life, including our sexuality, which might have been affected
by negative propaganda as we were growing up. Tantra teaches us
that sex can be much more than a short-lived orgasmic pleasure
relegated only to the sexual organs. Tantric sex can produce hours
of ecstasy, while simultaneously improving our overall health
and vigor at any age.
When we all feel the stress of the computer
age, which was supposed to save us time (remember?), we can appreciate
more than ever a system that teaches us to achieve greater relaxation
in a shorter time. Tantra brings a replenishment of our physical
energy, a deepening of our emotional connection, and an opening
up into the spiritual realm that puts our lives into a more realistic
perspective.
Tantra covers so much that it can be very confusing
to the beginning student. Tantra is an art, a science, a way of
life that is honest and courageous. It includes our sexuality
and in fact, faces it squarely while teaching us how to use it
maturely. Sexual energy -- this awesome force that some religions
fear and want to suppress -- can instead be used to help us reach
our highest potential of pleasure, leading to union with the divine.
Tantra is for courageous people-leaders, visionaries,
trail blazers who are willing to look at life openly and intelligently,
drawing their own conclusions about what works in their lives.
It does not require listening to any Tantric authority, or following
any dogmas. Tantra is not a religion and it has no dogmas.
Tantra gives us information about what works
for many practitioners, and it invites us to try it for ourselves.
It encourages us to discover our greatest creative potential for
pleasure. It gives us the ability to connect with our innercore,
with our lovers, with all the natural elements that surround us,
and with the spirit that we all share.
To achieve this, it offers a series of exercises
to strengthen our ability to focus in a relaxed way on what we
experience. We learn to breathe deeply and fully, both in a relaxed
wave-like motion and in a controlled fashion, to achieve different
results. Tantra teaches us to tone and expand our energy with
specific sound vibrations, and to strengthen our love muscles
(the PC muscles). In that way we can delay ejaculation for as
long as we desire, and achieve multiple full-body orgasms. Many
tantric techniques are geared to train the mind to let go of specific
goals, and to stay focused in the moment. This helps us tune out
self-doubting or criticizing thoughts, which usually dampen or
squelch our sexuality. More advanced Tantra practices include
concentration on certain symbols representing the energy centers
of the body.
Many suggested exercises help to clear blocks
interfering with the unencumbered movement of energy, which is
necessary to achieve the highest ecstatic state. It creates in
the mind a wonderful altered state of bliss, which can open new
brain cells and generate new connections within the brain. This
results in making our lives more fulfilling and expanded in all
areas: physical rejuvenation, sexual mastery, greater intimacy,
financial success, and many more.
Tantra guides us to achieve a state of blissful
orgasmic pleasure, and power that goes way beyond the short-lived
genital orgasm that many are accustomed to. When the body is completely
orgasmic from head to toe, this expanded pleasure spills over
into the area beyond the body. This brings us toward states of
transcendence of our every-day self-identification to experience
our true wider reality. When sex, love and the spirit meet, that
union creates fireworks in our brain as a celebration of the merging
of consciousness and energy.
Copyrighted © 2001 by Carla Tara
Carla Tara‚ 718-899-2267
Carla@TantraNewYork.com • www.TantraNewYork.com
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