Forget the chocolate this Valentine’s Day! Embrace your sensuality instead.

What do you think of when you hear the words ‘Valentine’s Day’? Is it a box of delicious chocolates with a ribbon tied around it? Maybe a gorgeous bunch of red roses delivered to your work? A romantic dinner for two at a secluded table in a fancy restaurant? Watching the sunset while sipping champagne and eating strawberries with someone special? Even a cuddly teddy bear holding a card filled with heartfelt words. All of these things may spring to mind.

Maybe 2022 is the year to do Valentine’s Day differently. Why not try awakening your senses rather than focussing on romance and gifts.

Imagine for a moment what it would feel like to enjoy a deeper, more meaningful and pleasurable connection with your body, mind and spirit instead. 

Sensuality conjures all sorts of images.

But, what is sensuality?

It is the enjoyment and expression of pleasure. It is an awakening of all your senses, so you move through each moment, truly in touch with yourself and your surroundings. Sensuality is noticing, on a deep level, every sight, sound, scent, taste, touch, and how it makes you feel. Sensuality awakens your soul and permits you to experience pleasure within the smallest of experiences.

We can experience sensual pleasures every day – It is healthy and can help you enjoy life and live ‘awake’ and ‘aware’ each moment.

So, rather than racing through every moment ignoring the amazing intricacies of life and nature around you – love, appreciate and fully experience them!

Do you crave a different Valentine’s Day this year? Maybe exploring ways to embrace sensuality and how it can bring a new level of joy and pleasure into your daily life is the answer.

Spend a moment thinking about your five basic senses:

Taste: How do you feel when you eat something decadent, mouth-wateringly delicious that surprises your taste buds? It amazes and transports you momentarily.

Touch: Imagine cool water running over your body on a hot day. The feel of velvet running along your fingers. The way it feels when you slip on a silken robe after a shower. Hot sand underneath the soles of your feet. All of these tactile experiences also create feelings and emotions.

Sight: Remember a time when you saw something so beautiful you were rooted to the ground, completely mesmerised. Did it spark your imagination and make your heart pound with wonder and possibility and amazement?

Sound: Try to think back to when you first heard your favourite song. The tone, the melody, the lyrics – where did it take you, and what do you feel every time you listen to it?

Smell: Scents are powerful and completely transforming. A particular scent, or even the thought of one, can bring back memories of a person, a place, a food, a feeling, an emotion. Scents uplift mood, relax your mind and help reveal your true essence.

Sensuality is the culmination of nurturing all of our senses to fully experience joy and pleasure.

In our everyday lives, we often become so engrossed in our responsibilities that we switch off to everything else. All the things we must do, the places we need to be, the people we have to do something for, overtake everything so that we become desensitised to small pleasures. As a result, we can sometimes become robotic and disconnected, leading to feelings of malaise and even depression.

By exploring your sensuality, you can experience the world differently. You enjoy more happiness and contentment. Your energy shifts, enabling you to become positive and magnetic. Sensuality is the pathway to becoming comfortable with your body and having a clear mind. In addition, it can help to develop your creativity, imagination and intuition by being more deeply connected to yourself and the world around you.

Sensuality is about listening to your body, your feelings and what you experience – in every moment.

Maybe you can think of sensuality as ‘active meditation’ – bringing your focus to ‘now’, calming your mind and opening your soul, allowing you to shine bright each and every day.

One of the easiest ways to start embracing your sensuality every day is through scent.

When you make your morning coffee, take a moment to breathe in the fragrance of the deliciously roasted beans and enjoy it.

As you cook your dinner and the smell wafts through the kitchen, be aware of the physical sensation it ignites. You feel a little hungrier right? Your mouth starts to water. You become excited about the food you are about to sit down to, just from the smell.

When you walk out the front door early in the morning while the dew is still on the ground, notice the earthy scent rising from under your feet, the freshness of the air, the slightly damp, deliciously green smell of the leaves. It makes you feel alive and refreshed! It gives you hope and energy for the day ahead.

How powerful.

Traditionally one of the most popular Valentine’s Day gifts is perfume. Quite often expensive, synthetic and toxic. This Valentine’s Day, use scent differently. Explore your sensuality and experience a full body, mind, spirit connection with a 100% natural aromatherapy perfume oil. You will enjoy sensory pleasure plus the associated health benefits of using natural aromatherapy oils without any toxic chemicals.

Scents like rose, cinnamon, frankincense are a sublimely sweet, spicy combination that is perfect for Valentine’s Day.

Warm your soul and awaken your senses with our Amplify Perfume Oil. Rich with personality, this scent is designed to warm and recharge you with a sense of wellbeing. It is a divine combination of sensual, spicy and sweet with rose and cinnamon, infused with woody base notes of copaiba, sandalwood, cedarwood and frankincense.

Amplify Perfume Oil has no nasties and is made with 100% pure essential oils. It’s so amazing it won the 2021 Bronze Medal Clean and Conscious Awards and was a Finalist in the 2020 Non-Toxic Awards.

Are you ready to awaken and amplify your sensual side this Valentine’s Day?

Hopefully, now you have ideas for a different Valentine’s Day this year and ways to embrace your beautiful sensuality.

If you want more ideas on how to embrace your sensuality this Valentine’s Day and every day, get in touch, we’d love to hear from you.