From a Tantric point of view sexual enhancement could mean anything from making love more consciously to healthy lifestyle choices to going to a week long intensive workshop. You might include healthy living and supplements, regularly attending to your PC muscle sexercises, meditating, doing yoga, setting up a lovemaking ritual, eye gazing, or practicing ejaculation mastery. Just about anything could be added to the list. Let's explore some possibilities.
Diet and Lifestyle
Without a doubt this is the area of the most importance when it comes to things we can do to improve our sexual response. Your overall health is the first thing to address when you venture into optimizing your sexual response. Smoking, too much alcohol, obesity and many medicines lead to restricted blood vessels and poor circulation.
Smoking is recognized as one of the main causes of sexual dysfunction in men and women. It is implicated in the failure to have and maintain erections as men age. Smoking decreases blood flow, which is a necessity for arousal to occur, in the genital regions.
Diets rich in fish, leafy green vegetables and whole grains are widely held to be better for your health. Minimizing red meats and excessive dairy products, in adult diets, helps keep arteries and circulatory systems healthy.
Regular exercise keeps your muscles toned, your blood pressure down, and your body fit for sexual aerobics. It is also known to increase endorphins, those little feel-good molecules. Its been shown in studies of women that even moderate exercise, a few times a week, greatly improves their orgasmic capacity.
Great sexual response responds to sufficient sleep, low stress levels, exercise, good health, and limiting the amount of alcohol and drugs you partake in. Many herbal remedies for sexual dysfunction are primarily health tonics and that's why they work so well. They promote increased blood flow, which is what fills the penis to make it hard and the vagina to make it turned on and receptive.
Techniques
Sexercises and genital weight lifting products are probably the best way to increase sexual desire and response levels. They do this by strengthening the pelvic floor muscles for better responsiveness and by bringing increased blood flow to the pelvic region. This in turn oxygenates the area and readies the muscles for better response during orgasm.
When doing Kegel or PC muscle sexercises the brain becomes involved too. It is necessary to focus the mind while breathing deeply, counting the contractions, and visualizing the genitals during each squeeze and subsequent release. This brain/body connection increases neurological functioning that in turn leads to greater response throughout the body.
As you get better at these sexercises you'll notice that when you are practicing them during intercourse and lovemaking you will spontaneously gain the benefits of the mind focus that has accompanied the practice. This focus will aid you in your pleasure and orgasmic capacity. You can begin to build further on this concept by delving deeper into the feedback loop you are creating during sexual activity, then back again during solo practice, and back yet again during sex. As the feedback loop continues to build your mind expands to take over when and where your body might initially 'fail' you sometimes during arousal and orgasm.
When these sexercises are done with the aid of eggs and weights, s Sexercise Pleasure Balls and the Vaginal Strengthening Egg, made for insertion into the yoni, the muscles gain an even more effective tool for strength and they can be mildly stimulating. The most erotic part may simply be the fact that YOU know that you have an erotically stimulating object inside of you that is adding to your sexual prowess.
There aren't any commercial products made for men to aid in the strengthening of their PC muscles, as far as we know. Never-the-less men can use a washcloth draped over their erection to aid in the lifting sexercises that the man does as his version of the PC muscles sexercises. Advanced training might include getting the towel wet to add weight. Adaptive strategies can also be used such as hanging the Egg in a small cloth bag that then hangs from its pull strings when placed over the lingam's head. Our new Kegel Sexercise Pleasure Balls can be used as weights also.
Products and Supplements
There are a variety of products that can contribute directly to how you feel and experience ecstatic sexuality in your life. Vibrant health is very important to the sexual response your body puts forward. Your brain, nervous system, and body respond well to products such as vitamins, supplements, and lean, healthy food.
There are many new creams on the market that are designed with women in mind. Like Viagra, they have been designed to help with the problems of the physical aspects of sexual dysfunction, that some women have, with achieving orgasmic states. The general mode of action of these creams is to increase blood flow to the genitals. Blood flow causes the engorgement and arousal of the genital region. Many of these creams are based on the absorption of L-Arginine to the blood supply in the immediate area of the genitals. L-Arginine increases the Nitric oxide available to the tissue that in turn expands the blood vessels and allows more blood to flow to the region.
They are easy to use and the ones that are currently on the market have varying degrees of success. This is a new area in the understanding of sexual response and it is in its infancy. We expect more new products to be available in the coming years. You'll find several of these types of products, for both men and women, in the Tantra.com catalog: Natural Arousal for Men & global name 'klass' is not defined.
Supplements for sexual vigor and health are popular products, enhanced recently by the introduction of products like Viagra and Cialis. Cialis has recently been found to increase the amount of natural testosterone in a man's body by as much as 50% after three months of twice a week use. While this is a good direction for these kinds of products to go to many people are interested in a more natural product that does not introduce the risk factors presented by Sudafile or Tadalafil containing products. In addition, oral supplements have a much more rounded positive affect on general health and wellbeing.
Specialized Supplements
Ginko Biloba and Ginseng are both recommended for blood flow to the brain and extremities. Ginkgo greatly increases the concentrations of dopamine and other neurotransmitters in the brain. These are the building blocks of increased pleasure, happiness and alertness. Ginseng increases the production of sex hormones like testosterone and progesterone and helps keep our stamina up. It helps moderate stress level, stimulates the immune system and can decrease menopause symptoms.
Avina Sativa or wild oats has long been known to have a direct affect on libido and health. They produce deep relaxation, increased sex drive, stronger erections, and increase, sometimes quite dramatically, men's testosterone levels. Best taken in concentrated forms they are available in health food stores. One product goes by the name of Vigorex Forte for men and Vigorex Femme for women.
Yohimbe is derived from a tree native to Africa. It has a reputation for being a strong sexual stimulant, though often a dangerous one. Its powerful action blocks nerve activity that constricts blood vessels, leading to problems in people that already take blood-thinning medications. When combined with some of the other herbals below, but not as the main ingredient in a formula, it can be a healthy addition as a sexual tonic.
Saw Palmetto is affective in stopping swollen prostate growth. While some claim that it can actually shrink a swollen prostate gland, most experts say that it is affective only in stopping additional swelling from occurring. This can help increase the flow of semen from the testicles, help with urinary problems in older men and relieve the tension to the urinary tract caused by the enlarged gland. This tension often leads to an uncomfortable feeling during sex.
Muira Puama or "potency wood" as it is called in its native Amazon, has been highly regarded as a potent sexual and nerve tonic. It heightens physical response and sensations to sexual stimulus. It increases libido and hardness in penises during sexual stimulation. It contains the building block chemicals that are the precursors to hormones. Muira Puama has no known harmful side affects and has been used in Europe for centuries, though it is only beginning to gain acceptance in the US.
Black Cohosh is known for its balancing affect on feminine hormones. Both estrogen and progesterone levels are influenced by its properties. It is a great treatment for premenstrual symptoms and menopausal problems like lubrication and sexual receptiveness.
Dong Quai is a relaxant, pain reliever for feminine symptoms including menopause and menstrual cramps. It contains many nutrients that support hormone production, balance estrogen production, and relax smooth muscles in the body. It has been shown that it has a pain relief affect 1.7 times that of aspirin. All these attributes support its responsiveness to sexual desire and enhanced blood flow to the genitals.
Ashwagandha is a native of India and has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years. Its aphrodisiac properties are attributed to a steroid-like effect, which produces precursors to testosterone and progesterone. These hormones are instrumental in active sexual response and libido. It is also considered for its anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, anti-stress, antioxidant, mind boosting, immune enhancing, and rejuvenating properties. It helps produce nitric oxide, which is known to dilate blood vessels. The Kama Sutra refers to it as having aphrodisiac qualities.
Tantra.com has an exciting new product called Passion RX Yohimbe that fits this category of sexual supplements extremely well. It is a very well made product that includes a proprietary blend of: Ashwagandha, Catuaba, Cnidium, Horny Goat Weed , Maca, Muira Puama, Passion Flower, Tribulus Terrestris, Cistanches, Longjack, and Yohimbe. Passion RX is made by a GMP certified manufacturer, is virtually side affect free, and contains no hormones, drugs, or unlisted substances.
