Sexual/Spiritual

Question: I have strong sexual feelings that trouble me a great deal. I am afraid of them, what should I do?

Answer: Your sexual feelings trouble you because you believe there is something bad or shameful about those feelings. Sexual feelings are the strongest spiritual feelings you can have but as long as you see your sexual feelings as shameful or bad you won't be able understand sexual feelings are spiritual feelings.

Sexual feelings call forth our yearning to be "one" with another. That is what the "urge to merge" is all about, our desire to be one with another rather than separate from them. It is the same yearning we have for God, to be one with God. This desire "to be one" with all that there is is what all of our sexual/spiritual feelings are about. Begin seeing your sexual feelings as spiritual feelings and they won't trouble you any more.

Sexual feelings are creative (creation) feelings. Without our sexual feelings, it would not be possible to create new souls and bring them into this world.

Sexual/Spiritual feelings can be expressed physically, emotionally or mentally. The greatest writers, painters, musicians and creative people of this world have very strong sexual feelings. Of course, sometimes these people misuse their sexual/spiritual feelings and do harm to others. Whether we will use our sexual/spiritual feelings for good purposes or bad is up to us.

I personally believe the greatest damage done to many people during their growing up years is to make them believe that their sexual feelings are evil, shameful or bad. If that is what people believe about their sexual feelings, they will attempt to deny they even have them.

Anything as powerful as sexual feelings denied, eventually are "acted out" in very inappropriate ways. For example, the attitude that the Catholic Church has about sexual feelings has resulted in the biggest scandal the Catholic Church has ever experienced.

God gave us our sexual feelings and if our sexual feelings are bad then God is bad for giving them to us. It is not our sexual feelings that are the problem, it is our misunderstanding of them that causes all the sexual problems in our world.

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