by Iris Karimova
I had been in a relationship for four unhappy years. My partner was distant, and I struggled to ask for what I wanted. The whole thing became incredibly frustrating: I was frustrated with my relationship; I was frustrated with my body. When I wasn’t blaming my partner, I was blaming myself.
I started searching on Google. I don’t remember what I searched for exactly, but I was researching intimacy issues. That’s how I found out about Orgasmic Meditation. After investigating a little, I got excited. I thought it was a practice my partner and I could do together. I thought it would be a good fit for our problems. But before we got the chance to try it, we broke up.
So, I tried it with someone else. For my first Orgasmic Meditation (OM), I was nervous. But my stroker held the container so well, so safely, that once we began, the love and approval overwhelmed my fears. The sensations were like nothing I had experienced before. It was nurturing and caring. It was the lightest touch I had ever experienced on my genitals.
I’m originally from Russia, born and raised in the USSR, where no one talked about the kind of things that Orgasmic Meditation does. Babies somehow kept coming, but there was no explanation of how. Extraordinary, don’t you think? Back then, religion didn’t exist. Love didn’t exist. Only communism. It’s hard to brainwash people who are happy, after all. Because of that, I had a lot of mental blocks to get through. I didn’t really feel like I had a right to something so open and liberating as Orgasmic Meditation (OM).
When I started OMing, I was shocked at how the slightest touch could transform my feelings about myself. I had felt for the longest time like I couldn’t relate to myself as a woman. Within a month or two, I had full sensitivity back. I felt safe. I knew I was in control of the speed and pressure and everything, but it was just that light touch that helped me tune back into my body. I think you start accepting yourself doing the practice. I know I started accepting myself.
I’ve practiced with several different strokers, and I’ve never experienced anything but love and attention with any of them. It filled me with confidence. Soon, I was asking for exactly, specifically what I wanted wasn’t something I was accustomed to, unless I was telling my barista to add three pumps of vanilla to my latte instead of two. But once I learned in an intimate setting, in Orgasmic Meditation, to ask for what I wanted, it gave me the rightness to conduct my life similarly.
It surely sounds trivial, but I’ve noticed I’m more assertive in what times I’m willing to have meetings at work. It used to be that a client would want me to meet him at 6:30 AM on Sunday across town, and I would say, “Oh, yes, of course. Anything.” Now, I have the confidence to ask for a time and day that is more convenient for me. My sleep patterns have been thankful.
My relationships with men have exploded just because I feel comfortable expressing and sharing myself openly. My partners actually enjoy it when I express my desire. It used to be that whenever I experienced pleasure from a man, I couldn’t fully enjoy it. My mind was only partly there. The rest of my thoughts would be jumping out ahead, trying to think of how I should pay him back. Women, I think, are sometimes not that good at simply receiving. It takes practice.
Similarly, now that I can sink into my body more, I don’t care so much how I look: if I look pretty or appropriate if my hips want to move awkwardly. I don’t even think about it anymore. I’ve received so much approval from my partners in OM that I’m finally able to give some to myself.
It seems to me that I spent a lot of time before Orgasmic Meditation chasing something I couldn’t name -- and finding only frustration. I wasn’t able to stay with my body and just see where it would take me. I’ve learned how to be present now, to stop chasing. Sensation occurs on a completely different level. It rolls through my entire body like waves from the ocean. It has completely transformed my idea of what fulfillment can be.
Before OM, I had given up on myself as a woman. I thought I was broken, that my body wasn't working anymore. I highly recommend Orgasmic Meditation to anyone who might feel the same way. It truly is the beginning on the road to yourself.
