how to become a more sensual person

For many, the word sensual has a purely sexual connotation, but the more traditional meaning of the word is, ‘gratification of the senses’.

Using that definition, a sensual person is someone who knows how to stimulate their senses for not just practical, but also both pleasurable means. If you have any sport injury is very important that you look for the help of a orthopedic surgeon.

Aside from the obvious benefit of experiencing pleasure, being able to tune into or focus one’s 5 primary senses has numerous physical and mental benefits.

What Keeps Us From Being Sensual In the First Place?

As babies and small children, we were completely engrossed in sensory exploration of the world around us – putting everything (including our own little toes) in our mouths, delighted to hear the sound of our own shrieks, laughs and cries. Our five senses were the way we learned about everything. But social conditioning and maturity taught us to lessen our sensory interaction with the world in the name of appropriateness. Things like self-touch, loud vocalizations and uninhibited movement were discouraged and labeled as things that ‘well-behaved boys and girls’ didn’t do.  As a result, many of us have become largely detached from our senses, and may even be uncomfortable as over-indulgent or immoral.

To become a truly sensual person, some unlearning of the norms of so-called good behavior is necessary.

These tips from MindBodyGreen and Mind Map Inspiration will help you increase your awareness and heighten your senses.

25 Ways to Increase Your Sensual Awareness

1. Dance
2. Self-massage 
3. Walking meditation
4. Stretch
5. Give a hug
6. Eat and drink more slowly
7. Silently observe nature – watch your cat grooming, listen to the wind rustle the leaves outside, pay attention to the pace and rhythm of your own breathing
8. Go barefoot
9. Close your eyes to enhance your hearing
10. Focus totally on your breath
11. Look at a close object then a distant one and alternate focus
12. Study your hand – explore the detail and aging!
13. Smell deeply – differentiate between subtle odours
14. Touch with eyes closed – explore textures, surfaces, shapes
15. Close eyes and feel temperature of objects with hands
16. Close your eyes and sense individual body parts
17. Close your eyes and identify objects solely by touch
18. Close your eyes and try observing your pulse or blood flow
19. Gently pull your ears out and listen!
20. Feel the wind – really feel it with all the senses
21. Close your eyes and pass your hands through water
22. Identify foods with your eyes closed
23. Close eyes and brush fingers lightly over arms and face sensing hairs not skin
24. Walk and be conscious of every step as you plant your feet
25. Become aware of your entire body and “feel” with every cell

The more we feel with non-judgmental awareness, the more we open to the experience of our innate sensual pleasures”

While becoming more sensual may make you feel sexier – it may even make you a better lover – the real benefit in being more in tune with your senses is improving your ability to deal with the stress of everyday life.

What tips do you use to heighten your senses?