Try allowing yourself to feel the erotic aura of the earth, the sky, any aspect of nature.

To compensate for hormonal shifts, look to your spiritual life to increase energy. Shakti, or chi, it’s called. The more you consciously draw on it through meditation, sacred movements such as t’ai chi, or prayer, the more energy you’ll mobilize, sexuality included. By nurturing your vital force, you can’t help but become sexier with age. I’ll

You cultivate the practice of inviting spirit in—which, in turn, triggers your body’s neurochemical pleasure response.

Get ready for a mind shift. When you let go sexually, you enter an open, intuitive state, permitting a greater force to flow through you, similar to the way artists are moved by creativity.

sexuality becomes a spiritual union between another and oneself. Imagine that the next time you make love. But

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That is, personifying sexuality in a natural way, not running from it, fighting it, or overcompensating for a lack you feel inside. A body-centered realization that spirit is the source of ecstasy, your physical form its

As a woman I’ve had to get used to the idea that I could encompass many facets of myself safely. It took time. Intuition, sexuality, spirituality—little by little, they’ve begun to be woven into a wonderful braid.

The secret: If you “see” with heart the light in all things—from hoeing your petunia garden to making love—passion radiates. If you “see” with just your mind, radiance recedes. It’s a choice. Your vision of the world depends on you.