Both embrace the idea of accepting pain, or even finding peace and pleasure in surrendering to it. While the overall BDSM community isn't tied to any religious ideology, the practice does share an important commonality with some spiritual meditation traditions that involve pain. Potentially, it can even be a transcendental and spiritual experience for some. The more we study the connection between BDSM, mindfulness, other types of meditation, and pain, the clearer the benefits of BDSM become, particularly when it comes to stress and anxiety. They also rated their own overall well-being higher than non-practitioners. If anything, one study found them to have comparatively lower levels of disorders (like depression, anxiety, PTSD, psychological sadism, masochism, borderline pathology, paranoia) and another suggested they were less neurotic and sensitive to rejection, more open to new experiences and conscientiousness. But modern research reveals again and again that recreational BDSM practitioners are, psychologically speaking, pretty much the same as those who don't practice it. Thanks to Fifty Shades of Grey, the general public's perception of BDSM tends to be ill-informed, reductive, and unhealthy - worlds apart from the reality of a community that embeds enthusiastic consent, trust, and safety into practices that often involve intense but controlled pain.Įarly psychoanalysts like Sigmund Freud categorized BDSM as nothing short of a mental illness. To the uninitiated, it's easy to discount BDSM as salacious, or even deranged and dangerous. Evidence is starting to support what many practitioners already innately knew: BDSM can be powerfully meditative, with positive psychological effects that go far beyond just sexual satisfaction. Though in its nascent stages, BDSM research is finding similarities between BDSM and mindfulness and other forms of meditation, especially in the context of heightened awareness and relaxing altered states of mind. These probably aren't the kind of activities you associate with meditation and mindfulness, let alone spirituality.īut if you ask those who practice consensual BDSM (meaning bondage/discipline, dominance/submission and sadism/masochism) - along with the researchers who study it and mindful sex - a connection between these seemingly disparate practices actually makes a lot of sense.
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Subspace isn’t achieved every time, and you will have your moment in time, don’t try to focus on reaching subspace be in the moment and enjoy it for what it is.March Mindfulness is Mashable's series that examines the intersection of meditation practice and technology. The most important thing is that you enjoy your scene, the intimacy, and the experience you and your Dom/me share. There are many submissives that haven’t experienced subspace, and it is important to know that this does not make you less of a submissive or a bad submissive. This can be done while still in the scene or after that with aftercare.
If a Dom/me is able to realize their sub is in subspace, it’s always essential to try and bring them down slowly. Coming down from subspace can lead a submissive to crash quickly into subdrop. Some subs will remember their subspace acutely, while others will have brain fog.Īs unique as subspace is to experience, it is always important to remember what goes up must come down. Submissives will also become sexually charged and eager to please their Dom/me, often willing to push their own boundaries just to keep that high during the scene.ĭuring this stage of nirvana, you can either become accurately aware of the sexual experience or completely lose yourself in that moment.
This rush of endorphins can be an intense experience that makes subs “drunk” in a sense as they become giddy. When your body experiences pain similar to impact play, it will release endorphins that help the body cope with the pain.
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