Holy sensuality is the act of appreciative attention to the whole of life. Imagine experiencing every part of your day with your full humanity, all five of your senses engaged, your imagination playfully perceiving, your emotions humming with life. In this state there is no possibility of boredom, or any of the harmful behaviors that spring from it. Time would slow down to a more childlike tempo, because it would be so full of visceral experience and the making of memories.
Habitual behaviors would largely cease, because they manifest from automatic living. Likewise, hurry and thoughtless cruelty, because ones agenda would change as you noticed things like the breeze on your skin and the sadness or hunger or playfulness in the eyes of the person right in front of you.
By cultivating holy sensuality one can thicken experience. In our frantic, external culture, thinness and shallowness characterize most of life. This is not an accurate reflection of people created in the image of a creative and passionate God.
Sensuality may be expressed in selfish, and thus hurtful ways, but it is one of the gifts of creation that God pronounced as "very good." Sensuality is a powerful force in every persons life, like the imagination and emotional experience. As in everything else, intentional, mindful, humble practice is the way to exercise power, to channel the force that is an essential energy in bringing forth the abundant life that Christ came to give.
Habitual behaviors would largely cease, because they manifest from automatic living. Likewise, hurry and thoughtless cruelty, because ones agenda would change as you noticed things like the breeze on your skin and the sadness or hunger or playfulness in the eyes of the person right in front of you.
By cultivating holy sensuality one can thicken experience. In our frantic, external culture, thinness and shallowness characterize most of life. This is not an accurate reflection of people created in the image of a creative and passionate God.
Sensuality may be expressed in selfish, and thus hurtful ways, but it is one of the gifts of creation that God pronounced as "very good." Sensuality is a powerful force in every persons life, like the imagination and emotional experience. As in everything else, intentional, mindful, humble practice is the way to exercise power, to channel the force that is an essential energy in bringing forth the abundant life that Christ came to give.
