Eros Is a Different World

I would’ve said it lightly before, because I thought it was meaningless. I had been trained my entire life to believe that Eros is less than spirituality. The realm of Eros…those people who can’t control their impulses, who indulge in activities of the flesh. And being of the flesh was always considered inferior to being of your spiritual nature.

That belief kept me from seeing how intelligent Eros is. It kept me from learning the language of it, from realizing its sophistication. When I finally started listening to my Erotic intelligence, I realized it was so much kinder than my rational mind.

If I leave my rational mind for a little while, when I come back, it beats the crap out of me—“I can’t believe you forgot this, how dare you do that.”

But when I return to my Erotic self, it’s just glad I’m home. There’s a moment—if you’ve practiced erotically—when you realize how cruel you’ve likely been to that part of you. You realize you’ve treated your body and your intuition as “less than” because they didn’t meet the rational standard.

They felt impulsive, chaotic. They dragged me into bedrooms. They had hungers and needs. And I just saw all of it as a nuisance.Because I had somewhere to be. I was trying to get to achievement. Because, deep down, the faster I could get there, the more I could maybe finally feel okay.

Then something shifted. I sank into my body in a way I’ve never been able to escape.

In that stillness, I heard something. A language that everyone hears when they sink into the body. A set of laws. Elegant, fast, efficient. Kinder to nature than anything I could fabricate. The rational mind isn’t resilient. It’s panicked. It’s scared that some surge of Erotic energy will expose it. That it will lose control. That we’ll finally see—it doesn’t actually know what’s going on.

But the body does.

Eros gives you what you need to become fully and absolutely who you are. Connected, vibrant, and free.