If you have ever tried your hand at workshops related to Eastern spirituality – be that yoga, tantra, meditation or others – you may have found the initial experience lacking in life-changing insights. In fact, only very few people will have a mind-blowing change happening the first time around, and that is often due to these people being more relaxed about the whole thing than those who expect miracles. Let’s look at this from another angle: nobody has ever walked out of their first session in a gym with drastic results. It takes repetition and consistency to achieve results, right? When it comes to awareness of self and our connection with other beings, nature and the universe at large and thereby discovering ourselves to a deeper level (which seems to me as being the main point of spirituality), you have to be clear about one thing: for most of us it’s a gradual process! There is a reason why yoga teachers talk about ‘yoga practice’ and why meditation tends to include repetitive steps. It takes practice to reach the understanding necessary to have breakthroughs to the next level, step by step. Things look very similar when it comes to the tantric experience. Once the initial frisson of feeling naughty has worn off, tantra is no different from yoga in many respects. Obviously, the exercises are distinctly different, but the practice itself follows similar lines: a gradual growth of understanding will go hand in hand with increased results. That being said, at first, the effects of those experiences will be limited in time, but the further you progress, the longer the sensations will last. Regular practice will help for those effects to return more quickly each time; they might even eventually stick with you all the time, ready to be called upon when required. Tantra is a journey with exciting new vistas around every bend of the road
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