I was laying on the beach the other day, taking a nap. I knew the tide was rising so there was a risk a wave might come and get me and my towel wet. Still, I let myself sleep.
I woke up from my nap. Sat up and then stood up. I didn’t think about it I just did. And right as I did, the water rushed in and everyone around me (a holiday weekend on the Jersey Shore so there were many people around me!) started scrambling to grab their towels and shoes, little yells as they rushed to keep things from getting wet or pulled away with the wave.
I didn’t panic. I wasn’t surprised. Even though I hadn’t been awake. Something in me knew, and woke me so I would move out of the way.
That’s why I practice Orgasmic Meditation (OM.) OM is how I have developed a sensitivity in me, like an animal knowing. The way animals know to leave the area and move to higher ground before a tsunami comes.
Someone asked me earlier in the day, “I understand why a woman would do the practice of OM. But why would a man?”
And I thought—oh, she thinks the practice is for pleasure, for a woman to get touched a certain way and feel good.
But that’s not why I practice. I OM to cultivate the kind of sensitivity that lets me move with the world. To hear what’s happening before it happens. I OM to sync up with nature so deeply that I know when to wake, when to stand, when to move without thinking, even while I am asleep.
There’s a study that shows that seven minutes into OM, the brains of the stroker and strokee synchronize. Two systems attune—sharing sensation. That’s the real power. This is why men OM as well as women. To develop a sensitivity, connecting to that which our thinking, rational minds has cut us off from. OM is training in feeling all aspects of life, peeling back the layers I put on over the part of me that would know when a wave is coming.
I OM so I can live in that state, connected to everything. Where I know what is happening before it happens, where I move before I think, where I know what is needed before it is asked for. To live from the body’s intelligence. To move with nature.
