Sexual addiction! and Male-Female energy roles/energies

[Steppingfeet]

You've associated the perfect bottom and chest with divine love. You could have associated bright feathers with divine love. But you took a more mammalian approach. It's just chemicals in your brain being triggered by signals that you've entrained yourself to in puberty.

Ha! Great and humorous point!

It is as you say, Ali, biological and cultural programming. Some necessary, some not, but both mechanisms only.

Gribbons, as with any sensation, desire, craving, emotion, energy, or force within the self - it is just that: within the self.

You are not these energies, you only experience these energies.

As powerful and consuming as they may seem to be, if you are able to collect your attention and enter into spacious, empty silence, you may find that you can sit and watch these urges rise and fall without participating in them.

As you maintain this practice, you will gradually become more present in the moment, able to be conscious when these urges rise. You will not interfere with or repress these urgings - there is no right or wrong in them - you will simply watch them with loving, focused awareness, knowing that You are not the sensations of red ray lusting. Thus will that energy rise to higher and more universal expression.

This inner space and peace brings with it a self-sufficiency that does not reach outside the self for increased satisfaction, happiness, or identity-enhancement. Instead, from this stillness within will arise the desire not to get for yourself, but to give, to radiate unconditionally the love you feel is palpable within the moment.

In this stillness, you will also connect with the stillness within others, and the outer appearances, whether perceived as sexy or not, will be embraced as beautiful, perfect gestures or expressions of the other self's spirit within.

In short, you will begin to see that behind the many faces, there is only One, and though infinite in variety, single in beauty.

Love/Light, GLB

PS: That's written as much to myself as it is to you. : )