Woman: Dare to Be the Luscious Creature that You ARE!

Reflections about lusciousness, and why it has nothing to do with anybody else… than ourselves

William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Dawn (1881). In public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

One beautiful winter morning, I sat in the living room of a friend's house, chatting with a young woman I was just coming to know. She was very beautiful this woman, but a bit uncomfortable with her sexuality. And I asked her if she wouldn’t enjoy to just relax, and embody the luscious creature that she is?

She enjoyed my suggestion, but she pondered on my choice of the word luscious. Isn’t being luscious just a pretense-game women play for men, she pondered? 

Our lusciousness belongs to US

In our yearning to attract someone to love and be loved by, many of us started early on to twist and tweak and turn ourselves into a somebody we thought our world wanted us to be. 

Basically, we tried to make a something or someone out of ourselves, that weren’t really US: We began objectifying ourselves. 

Going down the self-objectifying-lane, we started thinking that being luscious is something we are “doing” to attract a man.

OH no! 

We couldn’t have been more wrong. 

Enjoying our lusciousness is our birthright as women. Lusciousness is the state of love that comes with being present in our bodies - and embracing our joy of being ALIVE! Lusciousness is the feeling that arises within us when we allow our sexual life force energy to flow freely through our bodies - and surrender to exactly how pleasantly that flow of life force feels!

Lusciousness has little to do with how we look from the outside - it's a feeling from within. But of course: feeling great has a consequence. When we feel pleasurable inside, other people feel that pleasure too! This attractiveness doesn’t have anything to do with “looks”– it’s more a subtle feeling of allure; of magnetism; of depth and of sensuality.

In my experience, true lusciousness is far more attractive (and tremendously more powerful) than “looking good”. 

As we surrender to being our unique and luscious Selves, our world changes 

Girls may think their lusciousness resides in the eyes of their observer. When we grow into womanhood, we learn that lusciousness has nothing to do with the other: and all to do with US.

The Spring, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. In public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Allowing ourselves to let go of our masks and pretences, we swap a painful tango with ideas of whom we thought we needed to be, for an ecstatic dance with Spirit herself.

And the result of that dance is: Lushiousness. 

When we learn to embody and own our lusciousness, we not only feel great. We also tend to give up on competitiveness; start voting the victory of people around us; and we free our creative powers! 

As we take on the quest of exploring how Spirit moves uniquely through US, we are up for a whole new way of living. Eventually, embracing our lushiousness enables us to become role models of feminine sanity – inspiring our fellow sisters and brothers to explore the deep and spiritual truth: Of what beauty really is.