I immigrated from the Soviet Union to the U.S. as a teenager, and it took a long time to adjust. I always felt a little out of place, but I started to learn English and found a job washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant, eating Chinese food for the first time. I went to college, and when I graduated, I worked as an electrical engineer. It felt like a regular life without a lot of worries.
I got married, and my wife and I had a child, and then my wife died. I met my second wife and felt she was the person I was meant to be with for the rest of my life. Our marriage went well for fifteen years while we were preoccupied with raising my son. When he went off to college, we were faced with each other and didn't know how to fill the void. I didn't have enough of a backbone to provide stability for us. The relationship was slowly disintegrating; sex was becoming less frequent, and we were fighting a lot. Both of us wanted to save the marriage, but we didn't know how. We were at the end of our rope when she came across Orgasmic Meditation and showed me a couple of videos.
Orgasmic Meditation (OM) sounded thoroughly new and outside the norm, and we were both open to trying it. The philosophy made sense to me, so I quickly got on board. I met people who were already OMing, and they talked about their feelings, which I had always ignored. I felt like I had a lot to learn.
When my wife and I started OMing together, fear and uncertainty rose up in me. At first, I was focused on the mechanics of how my finger was stroking. She'd ask for adjustments, go left, go right, make it lighter or heavier, and I felt like a test pilot, trying to maintain the plane in the air while things came at me from all different directions. She was constantly asking me for adjustments, and I found it painful as if I was doing everything wrong and couldn't keep the plane level.
I felt that this practice was good, even though I had never done anything like it before. It was time to learn something in life, something meaningful and big that would make me a better human. It was the start of developing my backbone, telling myself not to give up to stay with the practice. Something must have been happening inside of me because, after a while, the adjustments no longer made me feel ashamed or like less of a man. Instead, I understood that they were her way of making me successful and communicating honestly.
For a while, I would OM three times a day, starting at six in the morning, which gave me a boost of energy that lasted for the rest of the day. I never saw colors in the way I saw colors during that time. With my eyes closed, I would see pictures and vivid images as if I were in a cartoon.
In one of the morning OMs, we started really slowly, and then all of a sudden, it felt like my partner was racing. I increased the speed to meet her rhythm, and we raced together. She was fast. I was breathing hard, my heartbeat going wild. And then the racing stopped, and my body went still. It was as if I was sitting in Zen meditation.
But I don't go into an Orgasmic Meditation expecting a wild ride like that. It's important to start with a blank slate, with no idea what will happen, and let the connection unfold. However it goes, there's always something new to learn.
I'm also working on offering adjustments myself. If I feel like I've lost connection with my partner during an OM, I can offer an adjustment to bring it back. I can ask if she wants me to move to the left or the right, whatever I sense would reconnect us. This practice is teaching me to take more initiative based on my feelings.
All these different skills have provided tools that help my marriage. My wife and I can talk to each other now; if we disagree, we figure out how to handle it. I have enough stability in myself to stay steady when things get out of hand. We both have a more positive outlook on life.
I've also experienced a change in my business. After talking to clients, I used to try to give them what I thought they needed. But I was often wrong, which lost me a lot of clients. Orgasmic Meditation (OM) taught me to listen more closely and try to connect while people are telling me what they want. Once I've made the connection, I can feel what the other person is feeling and give them more precisely what they're looking for.
With Orgasmic Meditation, I see the possibilities of learning as infinite.
