BENEFITS OF EROSHA Erosha has many benefits. The most obvious is the immediate experience of erosflow. Surrendering to powerful erotic pleasure is intrinsically rewarding. In a culture where most people are erotically deprived, Erosha nourishes us. Erosha has many other rewards beyond delicious sensual gratification; these longer-term benefits give Erosha the potential to transform our relationship with our self and other people. Perhaps the most important long-term outcome is to enhance our self-esteem. Erosha boosts our confidence in several ways. First, just the experience of deep pleasure is inspirational. The more pleasure we allow ourselves, the more positive and optimistic we become. Second, Erosha helps us heal the wounds of erotic shame caused by negative conditioning. Feeling bad about our erotic self depresses our self-esteem. We cannot be confident in life while we reject a vital part of our being. Healing our erotic wounds restores our innate wholesomeness. Third, Erosha enhances our sexual skill. When we overcome erotic shame and inhibition, when we become highly sensitive to the flow of erotic energy in our body, we become better lovers, and this is good not only for our erotic partners, but our personal confidence too. Erosha also positively affects our sense of self in other ways. In the busy modern world we are predominantly and necessarily "in our head" and usually detached from our body. Such imbalance is stressful and unhealthy. We need experiences that give us a sense of our self as an integrated bodymind rather than the duality of a body separate from a mind. Flow experience, and especially erosflow, provides this mental/physical integration. During erosflow our mind focuses on high levels of full-body sensual experience. Modern life shuts us off not only from sensual experience but also from many of our feelings, especially powerful emotions of joy and sadness. Erosha is a fountain of feeling. We experience not just erotic arousal but many other emotions as well. Men will discover long suppressed feelings of vulnerability and the need to nurture, and women can give vent to the raw lust that our culture only allows to men. The discipline required in controlling the wandering mind so that it focuses on erotic sensation is a meditative skill that can help the process of mental focus in any other domain of life. The more we can order our consciousness in one context, the more we can control it in any other. Similarly, the physical discipline required to overcome deeply ingrained impulsive needs to release erotic energy, helps cultivate control of other impulses in life, like those that cause us to indulge in dysfunctional amounts of eating, drinking or working. Erosha is also highly energizing. It cultivates high levels of erotic charge and in advanced levels at least, does not dissipate this energy at the end of the session. The student leaves the session not spent and exhausted but overflowing with vigor. Some ancient erotic arts practitioners were so amazed at the power of this energy that they were convinced it was the secret of immortality! Erosha also has an important spiritual dimension. Erosflow can at times be so intense that the sense of a separate self can disappear, and we can experience a sense of oneness not only with the separate parts of our self, but with all things. The great Tantric texts of ancient India well recognized that ceremonial eroticism is a powerful vehicle of spiritual transformation. Finally Erosha has an important impact on the politics of our social relationships. As we liberate our sensuality, gain confidence and personal discipline, and sense the spiritual bond between all things, the structure of our relationships changes. We become more empathic and understanding of the needs of other people, and at the same time become more independent and assertive, less easily controlled by oppressive people, religions, jobs or even political institutions. Erotic liberation is a vital force of social democracy and equality, which is why it is attacked by authoritarians of all types. Erosha has another more specific political impact: promoting erotic tolerance in our society. Much of the negativity aimed at erotic expression in our culture is the result of the shame people feel about their own sexuality. Attacking the sexuality of others is a popular way of relieving one's own sexual guilt. As one of the first programs to recognize and heal erotic shame, Erosha helps break this social cycle. As we heal our erotic wounds, our erotic politics become more tolerant.

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