#ISSUE 03-2025 - What If Pleasure Unlocks Your Aliveness?


#ISSUE 03-2025

What If Pleasure Unlocks Your Aliveness?


Dear Reader,

Imagine pleasure isn’t just a feeling but a direct gateway to life force energy. Not something to be earned, not a distraction - a essence of vitality moving through you.

Most of us have been taught to suppress it. Conditioned to believe that effort, struggle, and control are the paths to meaning, while pleasure is unnecessary or even shameful. But what if this belief is keeping us disconnected from our full aliveness and its actually a key to active life force energy?

Pleasure, when fully embraced, isn’t just about satisfaction - it’s about energy, expansion, and embodiment. It’s the breath that fills you deeply, the warmth of presence, the pulse of life itself.

And here is a different perspective: many of us have armor around our capacity to feel pleasure. Stored emotions, tension, and conditioning block life force energy from flowing freely. That’s where soft touch De-Armouring and conscious self-pleasuring become powerful tools - not for escape - for integrating the deep, vibrant energy already within us.

I’ve written a full article on how the conscious practice of self-pleasuring is not just a luxury, more a life force generator - and how you can we access it more fully through "soft touch"-De-Armouring.

Personal Note

I was inspired to write this after a fully Body De-Armouring Session I gifted myself and an event where participants explored the power of self-pleasure in a meditative way. It was a blissful experience that led me to contemplate more on the frequency of pleasure.

Yes, conditioning exists - I see it in my work and my own daily life. Do I need to feel good first to allow myself to experience pleasure? Or can pleasure itself be the source that activates my aliveness?

This question intrigues me. The more I explore it, the more I integrate this perspective into my life and I can feel how important it can be in my work.

Through focus, awareness, and dedicating time to myself, I’ve noticed something is shifting in my body - closed parts begin to open, energy flows again, and I feel more alive throughout the day. It feels like it's my own responsibility to activate this energy more.
And sometimes we need support to get access to parts they need someone else guiding us through - to relax, release and expand.

What a gift to explore that here with you.

So, what if we stop waiting for pleasure to arise and instead cultivate it as a regular practice? What if pleasure isn’t something we receive, but something we activate within ourselves?

Curious whats your thoughts on that - just respond.

Thank you for Reading Reader

Warmly
Johannes

Johannes Ebert Bodywork // 13351 Berlin // hello@johannesebert.com // +49 173 29 88 497

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