Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

MIND AND SEX: How to manage your mind during sex?

31 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube discussion (by Anne Truong MD) about the brain–body connection during sexual experiences. The speakers note western medicine's historical tendency to separate brain from body, emphasize that people can be taught to "drop into the body" by attending to present-moment sensations (what feels good, what doesn't), and state that orgasms occur in the present rather than past or future.

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How does a woman connect the brain to the pelvis? That's the difficult part. It's that connection. Same thing with the men. How did they work on that process?
Yeah, well, I mean, look what we do, what we've done in western medicine, we've completely detached the brain from the body, right? And so we do that in our day to day life too is we're very detached to the physical sensations that are happening in our body. But it can be taught, right? And so paying attention to sensations, what feels good, what doesn't feel good, what do I need more of? And dropping, what they mean by dropping into the body is becoming aware of the present moment, of the sensations that are happening in the body. Our brains love to think about the past and they love to think about the future. Orgasms don't happen in the past and the future, they happen in the present moment.