sean

Welcome @Ecclectica 👋 -- enjoyed reading your story. Inspiring volume of retreat time you've clocked. I've done a handful of 10 day and several 3-5 day retreats. Transformative work. Would like to do a 30-day at forest refuge in Barre when I find the time and courage. Anyway, I'm sure others will chime in with qigong advice. Sean

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Thanks for reports, moved shenanigans to: @Everything don't post in this topic anymore. 🙏

A very special topic for the prolific, unsolicited contributions, despite all appeals to the contrary, from our very special @Everything --- P.S. let me know if you'd like a personal practice subforum of your very own, homie.

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I don't think your broader conception of consent here is what is generally (or ever?) meant in conversations around sexual consent though. I'm pretty stupid but this doesn't seem very complicated to me. I can't imagine how: Relying on conscious, coercion-free agreement before sexual activity would ever be problematic in itself Engaging in sexual activity against someone's will would ever be anything other than a moral transgression

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Some things that have helped me, in no particular order: Spontaneous shaking and movement Psoas release Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Thought Field Therapy (TFT) Focusing Core Transformation Screaming EMDR with sound/vibration Wim Hof breathing Cold plunging Martial arts, ideally with alive, non-compliant sparring

Haha. Busted. 😊 Another bad habit.

Sure thing. Split to here:

My current stack. Weird habit, but I'm usually reading around 10 books at the same time. Not a humblebrag, I'd likely get far more reading done were I ever to figure out how to be more linear. 🙄

Dang, y'all picking inspiring, wholesome love powers and I'm over here selecting evil vampire. I need to go to church. Sean

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I would submit it's also a failure of hegemonic patriarchy to educate and hold men accountable for what sexual consent means. (Maybe there's a chicken and egg in there.) In other words, water flows where it's unimpeded. A flawed practice, celibacy and a better understanding of consent internalized via clearer, more consistent social mores (U.S. president is a rapist), maybe our dude would be more likely to figure out how to course correct or just jerk off like a normal person instead of being creepy or worse. Just a theory.

(I'm just gonna keep hiding out in the funny corner with y'all)