Sexual Power contained within Personal Space

What is the personal definition of sexual power in 2019? In this instance, the question not the answer is imperative. Sexual energy as a space is interesting in that every living person on this planet has one whether they use it, acknowledge it, destroy it, or change it. Allocating an appropriate spatial outlet for its existence is difficult, and history has shown us many unpleasant consequences for whole group’s misguided efforts. However, when the use of one’s sexual energy as a space for evoking personal power is harnessed correctly, its loving devotion at the core of its heart, teaches us how to direct and release this powerful energy to express warmth and kindness through positive daily interaction.

I decided to discuss this topic after speaking with a friend about the energy contained within the ‘mixing bowl’ space of the female womb. This container of the female’s designated birth space is sacred in that she receives another’s energy, allows it to mingle and combine with her own, and then delivers it back into the world as a creative appropriation of two unique people. This seemingly empty space of the womb holds a significant portion of the feminine energy, and yet is only specifically noticed during childbirth. Before this point and after a certain age, the sexual power in this space often goes unnoticed, suggesting that perhaps its existence requires discovery from the opposite sex to awaken its energy. Like an undiscovered tomb hidden in the Egyptian desert, the concept that this crypt requires unearthing limits the use for the actual individual who carries it around their whole life, from cradle to grave.

Masters of meditation teach countless techniques to awaken and shift the sexual power of this energy contained within the root of every individual. Known as ‘Kundalindi Energy’ in Hinduism, this form of divine energy located at the base of the spine rests like a serpent, coiled ready for expansion. When this dormant energy is awakened through mindful re-arrangement, the energy flows upwards, expanding through the entirety of the body and enhancing consciousness. The practice aims to transmute and transcend the properties of this energy to infiltrate all other energy areas of the body, illuminating personal power as a passionate force. For example, when this energy rises into the stomach area, food needed for survival becomes a feast for the soul. Ready meals are replaced by the desire to create a home cooked meal for loved ones. As another example, this energy in the throat, may also manifest through a quiet giggle among friends when discussing confidential women’s business away from the listening ear of curious menfolk.

In the conservative and traditional countercultures of the Eastern world, this power is used purely for wholesome creation. By allowing this quiet space of powerful energy to exist without the need to extract it prematurely, the individual asserts their right to use their inherent sexual power for increasing consciousness. This approach is more considered, respecting the powerful light of the divine needed for creating new life. When the energy is eventually harnessed and appears as a physical intervention in space, not just through childbirth but as a birth of any creative venture, the definition of its source returns back to the specific individual.

In Western culture, I believe the perceived danger of this sexual energy has been misinterpreted and misconstrued. Appearing as an attempt to rob the individual of their sacred sexual space by re-defining the need to openly share its power for others to outwardly enjoy, this power has been exploited and demoralised through multiple acts of control. Peer pressure to part with this power with little understanding of the consequences to one’s vital life source energy, sexual energy has become trivialised as nothing more than an ecstatic feeling through sexual encounters.

As someone who is not a nun living out her days in the protection of a convent, it is difficult in the least to find a balance between the containment and the expression of sexual power in my personal space. For me, the greatest gift of its love was understanding how to re-direct this energy flow into helping others talk about the importance of internal and external space. I was able to protect its sacred power, while also utilising its strength for change. I did not need anyone to validate my sexual power as an alluring, young, white female, as I was able to transition its location from my reproductive centre into my true heart space.

The conversation about sexual power contained within personal space has only just begun. To recognise and allow a genuine response from the depths of our collective consciousness will take time to hear and fully understand. In the meantime, as we listen to its reply through our emotional journey, we can learn to empathise and feel compassion for those less fortunate than awakened individuals, that experience such deep disconnection from their true spirit because of their misperception. Taking back this enormous opportunity for personal power begins with the courage to re-define one’s personal sexual space; knowing that this space contains just as much loving strength as the fear we are guided to falsely believe in.