My Pledge to Sensuality
No, it’s not what you’re thinking. Sensual, in the ‘sense’ of fully utilizing and enjoying all my senses. I am pledging to start fully enjoying life. Live it to it’s fullest. Carpe Diem! I’m standing on my desk and hailing ‘Oh, Captain , My Captain’ to Robin Williams.
- No more mindless eating, only for nourishment. I pledge to enjoy every morsel, the sensation as it crosses my lips, the texture of it on my tongue. I vow to experience every flavor, every nuance, every scent. I pledge to notice how it smells and how the flavors intertwine on my palate.
- No more mindless motion. I vow to make every effort
to experience every motion my body makes. To acknowledge the feeling of the keyboard underneath my fingers, the sensation of the carpet on my toes. I want to experience how I feel as I move, the breeze I generate when I run and dance. The exhilaration of the water as I stand in the shower. The feel of shampoo running down my cheek and the razor as it slides across my legs.
I want to experience life and not just let it pass me by. I don’t want to realize some day that I can’t recall what it feels like to see the ocean, to touch my loved ones or to hear my favorite song. I want to give myself fully to each moment and treasure whatever it brings.
It’s harder than it sounds and sometimes I find myself trapped in my head instead of enjoying what is around me. But – as for me, I choose the road less traveled, to stop and smell the roses.
“I’m standing on my desk and hailing ‘Oh, Captain , My Captain’ to Robin Williams.” That has to be one of my favorite movies of all times.
This sounds like a dive into living the full life. I try to look at everything as an experience, neither good nor bad, just an experience. It allows me to get a more objective view on life rather than subjective. Keep us all informed of how it goes. Try it for 30 days, then post about it…I am curious.
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Dead Poets Society is one of my ALL time favorites. I haven’t been the same since watching it and I have it on TiVo as ‘Do not delete’. It also introduced me to Walt Whitman – another influence that molded my young mind.
Looking at life without the judgment of good or bad is a good way to live. I remember reading a parable about an old man who went through a series of ‘bad’ and ‘good’ events. The townspeople would react to everything as most of us normal folks but he kept saying ‘This is neither bad or good. It just is.’ The story made me think. It’s a great mindset for maintaining inner peace/balance despite circumstances.
It’s a plan. I’m going to consciously make this an effort to ‘dive into the full life’ for at least 30 days. And then I’ll let you know.
Hi Tawnya – I love the photo you selected.
Did anything pivotal happen to cause you to want to live with more sense awareness or did you just decide to do it? Sometimes it takes something drastic to happen to us, a wake-up call, for us to really start living.
I like the idea of “this is neither good or bad. it just is”. I think I need to apply that more in my own life.
I think it was all just a part of developing – a desire to step outside of myself, my head, so to speak. I realized standing in the shower one day that I was so focused on mindless things, conversations I wanted to have, people I was mad at, etc., that I had spent nearly the entire shower without even ‘experiencing’ the shower.
That I had just spent what could have been an energizing 10 minutes, doing nothing but rehashing stuff in my head. And then I had this crazy desire to do something really nutty like run through a field *naked* while it was raining. Of course, as I am now there is NO way in HELL I would ever run anywhere in public naked. Or maybe learn to drive a Harley. Or throw caution to the wind and….. You get the point.
And combined with this feeling that I had been neglecting an essential part of who I am – I just wanted to really feel like I was living again.
For some it starts with something drastic, like cancer. For me, it was a shower.
And I’m pretty happy that’s all it took.