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Great sex and meditation have a good deal in common. Several researchers
have shown that one type of meditation, mindfulness, helps resolve several sex
problems. It focuses practitioners' thoughts intently on the present moment.
Both sex and meditation involve taking breaks from daily routines and
responsibilities. Both include deep diaphragmatic breathing. Both encourage
emptying the mind of extraneous thoughts and focusing attention on the
present moment. And both help free the mind from daily hassles.
But emptying the mind isn’t easy. During both meditation and lovemaking,
random thoughts—some possibly disturbing—inevitably dart in and out of
consciousness. Meditation teachers urge students to accept their thoughts
without judging them, no matter what the content. They say: “Your thoughts
are not you. They’re like dreams. You can’t control them and are not
responsible for them. Don’t judge your thoughts. Simply observe them, then
let them go as you return to your breath, mantra, or mindfulness activity.”
Bob Dylan’s song, “Maggie’s Farm,” includes the line: “I got a head full of
ideas that are driving me insane.” Many people can identify. They have heads
full of sexual beliefs that may not exactly drive them crazy, but do produce
sufficient stress to cause problems. Stress/anxiety/worry triggers the fight-or-
flight reflex that constricts the arteries in the central body, limiting blood flow to
the gut and genitals and sending it out to the limbs for self-defense or escape.
Reduced blood flow through the genitals compromises sexual
responsiveness, function, and satisfaction. But deep relaxation, the kind
produced by meditation, opens the arteries that supply blood to the genitals
and enhances sexual function and pleasure.
In recent years, several sex researchers, notably Lori Brotto at the University
of British Columbia, have harnessed the power of meditation to treat a broad
range of sex problems:
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Another Brotto team recruited 117 low-desire women. Forty-nine were placed
on a waitlist. The rest participated in three 90-minute classes over six weeks
that discussed the causes of low libido and offered instruction in mindfulness
meditation. Between classes, the women practiced mindfulness daily at home.
After six months, the treatment group reported significantly greater desire,
arousal, and lubrication, easier orgasms, and greater satisfaction.
Creighton University investigators took 38 men who were convinced they were
porn addicts to a rustic retreat center for eight days. They spent 32 hours
in cognitive-behavioral therapy. During CBT sessions, the researchers
endeavored to correct participants’ sexual misconceptions, such as:
When sex experts correct people’s misconceptions, sometimes that’s all that
is necessary to resolve their issues. But quite often, sexual issues cause
chronic stress not relieved just by learning the truth. Sometimes, people need
the truth plus tools to relieve their sexual stress. That’s where mindfulness
and other relaxing activities help: deep breathing, hot baths, massage, yoga,
tai chi, dance, hiking, and other exercises. They break the vicious cycle of
stress-dysfunction-more stress-worse dysfunction and replace it with
refreshing calmness.