Sexuality is not the same thing as sensuality, and the difference is important.

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Did you know you can express your sensuality — no matter your gender — without ever removing an article of clothing?

Being sensual means to be embodied. Being embodied means to be alive in all of your senses, in all of your cells, in all of your body.

To be fully expressed, energetically, and physiologically, and fully present, energetically, and physiologically.

And this has nothing to do with nudity, partial nudity, showing your skin, or revealing your sex.

While there is no doubt a time and a place in our journey where permission to be a sensual human being involves embracing ALL parts of ourselves, we can easily become distracted through conflating sensuality with sexuality.

Sexuality is not inherently bad or wrong, at all. But because so many of us are raised shaming and repressing our sex, we often compensate for this by indulging in overly sexualizing ourselves when what we're really looking for — what we're really trying to access — is our sensuality.

Admittedly, sexuality is often a vehicle through which we discover the "more" that is available here, that exists within us and has nothing to do with the external portrayal of our physical features. And it's important that we allow ourselves, when that moment arises, to explore beyond.

Some of the most sensual human beings I know, those that evoke in me a full body aliveness that pierces and dismantles every layer I might have in my being, are often fully covered. They've done the work to become energetically masterful and meticulous without *any* hooks. They are simply, precisely, radiating full body love.

And perhaps not coincidentally, it's with these magnificent beings that I feel completely, utterly, naked.

Personally, I'm in pursuit of living in the world as a naked heart and soul. Vulnerable and humbling as it often is, exposing as it so often feels, this is where I've chosen to put my attention and intention. A naked body will never satiate me the way a naked heart and soul does.

I'm curious what this evokes in you. What's your experience? I'd love to hear from you.