I have been working on this manifesto for a year now and it’s still not quite right, but I’m going out on a limb to publish it – now is the time. However, I reserve the right to make adjustments as I learn what I need to learn as I continue to live my AUTHENTIC LIFE.
This blog post and the manifesto sound like they are geared toward women, but they really aren’t. Women’s difficulties coping with modern life are out-picturing as hormonal imbalances, and I’m sure there is an equivalent for men, but I haven’t gotten clear on it yet. I am guessing that it is issues related to the heart and blood pressure, but I’m not certain. I’d love to get some feedback from men out there…
Expressing and communicating actively, regularly and honestly to vibrate as your authentic self is the equivalent of a balanced endocrine system. What does this mean? Is this just Theresa talkin’ crazy again?
NO!
I suffered from severe adrenal fatigue for over three years until I figured out what the REAL problem is. Medical tests, bio-identical hormone replacement, doctor visits and/or accepting that you’re “just a wreck” or “going into early menopause,” “aging” and/or accepting that you really don’t need a sex drive after all, are not the answers.
The ANSWER is to recognize that there is NO difference between your mind, your body and your external life. The answer is to bathe yourself recklessly, endlessly and consistently in buckets and buckets of juicy, juicy PLEASURE. The ANSWER is to love yourself with abandon. Love every single square inch of your body from the tiniest nucleus of each and every cell to the largest organ of your body: the skin.
Revel in yourself, love yourself, know your authentic self. Please yourself FIRST, then all goodness follows. When you love yourself, addictions are lifted, compulsions dissolve, you vibrate joy and compassion and everyone in your orbit benefits.
Click here to view A Pleasure Manifesto: February, 2011.
For more tips, please view my video below.
Be brave. If it feels good, do it.
Namaste.
Theresa’s Tips 4 Transcendence: If It Feels Good, Do It! from Theresa Schlee Valenzuela on Vimeo.
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Congratulations on publishing your manifesto! Very proud to see you putting this out there as I know you’ve worked very hard on this for a while now.
Several of the concepts in here regarding being more conscious in a relationship, putting pleasure first, creating a more communal space instead of this separate suburban subculture we have in the United States, and teaching grief are well worth becoming necessary learning for our youth and adults alike.
The concepts surrounding marriage are interesting, it would seem that in many cultures there is more of a possession issue than in western cultures, though I agree that the subtext for many is that of ownership and holding on to. I’ve talked to many in Sweden, and the whole idea of spousal support is a foreign concept to them, in that culture parents both work, and child care is super cheap and mostly supported by the government anyway. So in the instance of divorce, while obviously there are difficulties as with any separation, the question of support is not relevant. Feels a bit like state-sanctioned communal living in a way.
And because of the onset of global warming, and the financial meltdowns we’ve seen increase over the years, I think we’ll start seeing and might already be seeing a more communal living situation. The nuclear family is definitely a newer concept, and I think we’re witnessing the beginning of a lot more local-based providing of the goods and services that we purchase. We might find in years time that the concept of the general store, and the town doctor are due for a revival.
I have always liked this quote about Marriage:
“Marriage is the union of two different surnames, in friendship and in love, in order to continue the posterity of the former sages, and to furnish those who shall preside at the sacrifices to heaven and earth, at those in the ancestral temple, and at those at the altars to the spirits of the land and grain.”
-Confucius
Thank you Andrew, for such a well-thought out and well-written comment. The quote on marriage is so amazing…in fact, I’m so touched at your viewpoint, I have to ask; will you marry me?