Mastering Pleasure, Transcending Duality
When we master our relationship to pleasure, we master our relationship to duality itself.
At first glance, pleasure might seem simple—just feeling good. But it’s profoundly deeper than enjoyment alone.
Pleasure forces us to ask:
• How safe do I feel receiving?
• How deeply do I trust my body?
• Can I surrender fully to aliveness without needing to control?
• What shame, guilt, or moral narratives still linger around my desire, joy, and arousal?
Mastering pleasure means making peace with what turns us on, dissolving the inner tension between wanting and deserving, and bravely meeting the shadow within our desire.
This is integration, not indulgence.
Duality—the illusion of separation—thrives in binaries:
• Body vs. Spirit
• Light vs. Dark
• Sacred vs. Profane
• Masculine vs. Feminine
• Right vs. Wrong
• Self vs. Other
These binaries anchor much of our suffering, especially in realms of sexuality, identity, and self-worth.
Pleasure is the master key because it lives between these poles. It’s not purely light or dark—it embraces both. Pleasure is sacred precisely because it’s messy. It demands you embody paradox: Surrender and structure. Control and chaos. Masculine and feminine currents. Body and soul awareness.
Pleasure compels you to integrate contradictions: The primal and the divine. The shadow and the light. The wound and the wisdom.
When you master your relationship to pleasure, you don’t just allow yourself to feel good. You declare:
“I have befriended my own paradox.”
”I no longer fragment my power into acceptable pieces.”
”I hold hunger and holiness in the same breath.”
This is the powerful spiritual technology of pleasure—it collapses duality, not through intellectual understanding, but through deep embodiment.
In my upcoming book, Flesh & Flame, I explore how pleasure becomes a portal to divine mastery, inviting you to embrace your contradictions, integrate your shadows, and reclaim the fullness of your power.
In sovereignty,
Sharon
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