Transcript of Confidence Classic: Your Energy Defines Your Sexual Chemistry (How to Reignite “The Spark” In Your Relationship) with Ashley Stahl & John Wineland

So many people are willing to blame their partners for the lack of attraction rather than take 100% responsibility. It's my personal pet pee because I see it all the time. If each of us looked at our relationships and said, You know what? I'm 100% responsible for the state of our relationship. I'm wearing my sweats to bed. I'm giving him nothing but masculine energy. I'm criticizing him behind his back. I'm leaking sexual energy to other men. Take a really strong inventory of of how you're showing up in the relationship before you're just willing to say, Oh, it's over. He's not the man for me. And fix those things first and see what it is that where are you withholding your heart?

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Tell me, have you been enjoying these new bonus Confidence Classics episodes we've been dropping on you every week. We've literally hundreds of episodes for you to listen to. So these bonuses are a great way to help you find the ones you may have already missed. I hope you love this one as much as I do. Hi, and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back here with me this week. Okay, so I've talked about this many times. I constantly test and try, rinse and repeat, and try to innovate, test and try different things, right? So whether it be in marketing or in different approaches or in coaching, consulting, in writing, or in podcasting, you want to test and try. In any business, you need to innovate. The companies that end up bankrupt, going out of business, are the ones that stay stuck in doing business the old way that's always worked. To that end, I want to try something different today, and I need to hear from you. The only way I'm going to know if this works is if you let me know. So please, if you like this episode, tag me in the episode.

Share it on social media. That's how I know this is working for you. If you don't like it, please shoot me a DM. I'm at Heather Monahan on all social media. I'll always respond to you, or you can go to my website, heathermonahan. Com. I've got tons of free resources there for you, too. And shoot me a note and let me know, Hey, Heather, it didn't work. And I will appreciate the feedback and make sure I don't provide episodes like this moving forward. I want to provide the content that you want to add value to you, but the only way I'm going to know is if you let me know. So I can't wait to hear from you. All right, so in an effort to try and innovate, I talk a lot about business, and I don't talk a lot about more personal relationships. If you've read my book, Competence Creator or Overcome Your Villains, those are two places I definitely have dug into it a lot more, but I haven't really brought it into the podcast much. So I'm interested to know if that's something you want to hear more about, if that's a topic you want to dive into.

So A few months ago, I did an episode with Gina DeVee. She's the author of the book, Audacity to be Queen. I highly suggest you go back and listen to that episode. If you haven't heard it yet, we get into this topic around feminine and masculine energy. That's something that I have not known much about my entire life. I definitely am not an expert in relationships, but it was something that had been brought to my attention a few times. Sometimes when people are very successful in business and aren't in their personal lives, it's because they lean more towards their masculine energy. I found out this was the case with me. Now, it doesn't mean that you look masculine on the outside, because some people did say that to me in messages after that episode. That's not what it means, but it means that the way you approach things, and we're going to get into more of it. But I wasn't being very feminine around my energy, and that was something that after reading Gina's book, and actually after my podcast episode with Cathy Heller, that's another great one for you to listen to, right? These are people that lean much more into their feminine energy, and I was able to learn from both of them that that was an opportunity for me.

It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman, everybody has both feminine and masculine energy. Again, something I'm learning a lot about this year. So check out those two episodes, Cathy Heller or the Gina DeVee. They're both really interesting, really good, and will help you, whether you're a man or woman, realize that having feminine energy is critical to success in life, business, and your personal relationships. I talk a lot about firing the villain in your mind, but I don't talk a lot about firing the villain that might be in your relationship, in your bedroom. Maybe you're single, maybe you are in a relationship that's eroded over time and you're just hanging in there, but you're not really happy. I get it. I have been there. I found success in business pretty quickly and when I was pretty young, but the relationship side has not been as easy for me. It's been more elusive. I'm divorced, then I was engaged, and I just broke off the engagement a couple of years ago, and now I'm single. It's not ideal. There obviously is something off there, and I really think pointing towards this whole balance of feminine and masculine energy might be part of the problem.

Super interesting. I'm so curious about this topic, and I'm interested to hear if you're curious about it, too. We all have something that we can learn in and around this, and it's something that I don't think is talked about very much, or at least it hadn't been in the circles I was running in previously. I definitely have a tendency to get stuck in my masculine energy, as I mentioned earlier. No matter what your gender is, we all need that blend of both feminine and masculine. So today, we are going to be doing things a little bit differently, as I mentioned. It's really helpful for me, so I'm wondering if it's going to be helpful for you. Please let me know. I want explore what this ship can look like and how I can tweak things to better my life, relationships, and personal connections moving forward. With this in mind, I wanted to share a podcast episode from You Turn podcast with host Ashley Stahl. Now, Ashley Stahl has been a guest on this show. If you haven't heard her before, you're going to have to go back about a year, but definitely check out her episode.

She's great. She just had me on her show this week. I'm I'm on the U-turn podcast with her as well. She's a great woman who supports other women, really creative, really smart, incredibly successful, and teaches me a lot with this episode that you are about to hear. I'm actually playing part of her episode from the U-turn podcast here for you now because for me, it's really valuable, really interesting, and I think it can add value for you, too. So let me know what you think. Here are some of the things that you might get insight on today. Building your physical romantic chemistry, the connection between childhood and attraction, masculine and feminine energy, and both of their importance. I definitely want to hear what you think. I want you to hang tight right now, listen to what Ashley has to say and see if this added as much value for you as it did for me. Now, next week, we'll back to our regular standard operating episodes, but wanted to test and try something different. I hope it adds value for you. I hope it creates confidence in you. I hope it what makes you a little bit more curious and keeps you growing on your path for success in business, life, personally, relationship, or otherwise.

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Hey, friends, and welcome to this week's episode of the U-turn podcast. This is your host, Ashley Stahl. I'm a counterterrorism professional turned career coach, speaker, and Forbes blogger, and I created the You Turn podcast because, let's face it, every now and again, we realize that we're living life on autopilot, and it's time to wake up and make that You Turn in your life. So prepare to go deep with some of the most transformational people I know here to help you grow and upgrade your mindset, whether it's in work or love. Also, be sure to stick around for the end of every episode where I'm going to reflect on the conversation and offer actionable coaching insights to have a real impact on your life. Now, let's get started with this week's guest. Hey, everybody. It's Ash here, and I have a really interesting and special guest for you. I know that we've talked a lot about career, love, dating, all the things, but what we haven't gone deep on is sex and sexual chemistry. I'm really excited to have John Weiland here. He is a teacher, a speaker, and a writer, and he specializes in intimacy and sexuality, specifically yogic sex, which we can talk about, and also men's embodied spiritual practice.

He leads men's groups around the world, co-ed workshops, and so much more. I figured who better to have here than John to talk to you about how to create sexual chemistry. I know some of you guys, my boss babe friends, you guys are making money and pushing really hard in your career, and then sometimes that creates some chemistry gap between you and your man or vice versa. I'm curious to just ask all of these questions and also get into his steps for how to create sexual chemistry. So, John, thank you so much for making the time.

You're very welcome, Ashley. Glad to be here.

Yeah. I'm so curious to hear what got you interested in this, because I know that usually this work, you have a personal draw. So I'm curious what your story is for everybody listening.

My first experiment was on myself, and I like a lot of men. I was in a marriage in my mid-30s, and I had done everything everything that society had taught me to do. I made good money. We had a nice house in West LA. I had a child, and we were pillars in our community. And so I had on the outside what looked like a beautiful marriage, and yet we couldn't seem to make each other happy. And so I realized that this myth of the good husband that I call it now is It's really just... It is that. It's a myth, and it actually turns out to be more of a starting point for men now with the modern woman than it used to be. But 50 years ago, that was What you needed. You're a good man. You support her and her dreams, you're a good father, you make money, and that's everything that you need to be a good husband. Well, today, it's much different. To lead as a man in relationship takes a lot more than just those things. And so I started there and I realized I had not... Nobody taught me how to create deep intimacy or how to sustain sexual chemistry.

In a relationship and how to have a long term relationship. So I sought out teachers, one teacher in particular, a man named David Data, and I started studying with him about twelve years ago and have since been studying with him ever since. And now I teach my own work and try to help as many people as I can.

Beautiful. I have a friend who is very close to me, and she's been coaching with David for a really long time as well. I don't know if you know Jessica Wintersterne.

It sounds familiar, but I would probably know her by face in the workshops that I assist in. We don't know each other's names and backgrounds, a whole bunch. Okay. Yeah. I probably know if I was like, Oh, it's not perfect.

Some of the most magical things that have come out of her mouth, she's learned through her mentorship with David. I'm sure that you have so much that you've learned from him and also just your own version of how you look at things. I'm curious, starting on this topic of sexual chemistry straight. I know some people are probably listening right now, whether they're in the car, wherever they are, and they're thinking to themselves, I don't want to have sex with my partner anymore, and they're scared. It's a scary feeling because it's like, Is this over? I'm curious to understand from your standpoint, is it one of those things you think that it's there or it's not? And what is the spark? Because I know we talked about that before we started recording. A lot of women look, especially I only know women because I am one. So a lot of my girlfriends share with me that that's what they look for. They want to know that there's an instant spark. So I'm curious what your feedback is for people who are in a relationship and they have that or they didn't or they're dating.

Well, I like the idea of starting from the place of I don't want to have sex anymore. And And usually, when I see that, it's because there are unspoken and unshared resentments between the two partners. Usually, if there's love and there has been a spark, What happens is the spark gets dimmed by prolonged and unprocessed resentments, expectations. The classic problem is that couples are making each other wrong for what they think and feel. And it's really hard to get turned on when you don't feel safe to express what you think and feel without being made wrong by your partner. So that's usually a big problem when someone has hit that space. And sometimes I find that just creating a container to clear those resentments and clear those things that might have been held on to for years, possibly, that will bring back a lot of intimacy and a lot of sexual desire. Sometimes it's more than that. Sometimes it's that. And there's the loss of what I would call sexual polarity. And the sexual polarity comes when one person is primarily in their feminine, and one person is in their masculine, and this is not necessarily gender-based.

The man could be the feminine partner, and the woman could be the masculine partner, although most women are feminine in their essence, and most men are masculine in their essence. Or same-sex couples, that also happens. Sexual polarity works the same way. One is in receptive mode, one is in penetrative mode. And so there's a lack of sexual polarity that happens over the course of time as couples. The great joke is they're in their sweats, they're both in their sweats watching TV. Well, that creates, if you imagine two magnets rubbing together. Maybe they work together, they work at home together, they're spending a lot of time together, or when they come together, there's no attempt at creating this polarity. And after a while, they're like two magnets that rub together, and they will begin to repel. And so usually, those two things are when I deal with them, because I coach a lot of couples as well, usually when I take care of those two things, spark returns or the problems that are so... The differences that are so underlying get unearthed, and it becomes clear that they need to separate or there's some things that they need to change.

So that gives you a pretty good overview of what I see when somebody hits that, that I don't want to have sex with my partner anymore.

I also think, what about just this common question of it's just not there? For example, when I'm in a dating phase, it's like friends are like, How about him? And I'm like, I don't think I could do that. So what is that about? And is it something that there's a slow burn where suddenly something changes? What are your thoughts on sexual attraction?

Yeah, well, sexual attraction, it's been proven now that our greatest attraction, the love at first sight, Thunderbolt, thing, usually happens when we find somebody who fits our childhood programming. And there's a great book on this called Getting the Love You Want by the People Who Started a Amago Therapy, Harville Hendrix and His Wife. And it talks a lot about that, about how the thing that we did not get as children is the thing that we will spend our life trying to find. So whether it's physical affection or or praise, or unconditional love or safety, the lack of getting those things creates a hole in us. And we will look for somebody who matches that blueprint. And when When we find them, sparks fly. So oftentimes, sexual attraction is much more about, especially at the beginning, is much more about being what the imago people call an imago match, that it is true sexual chemistry.

So interesting.

And most people don't want to hear that. Most people want to hear, Oh, my soulmate, or not my soulmate, or if there's no spark, then he can't be my soulmate. Well, more often than not, the people that are probably best for you are people that you wouldn't actually have that initial spark with. But again, most people don't want to hear that.

No, they don't. I'm sure. Yeah. Well, so going on that note before we get into creating sexual chemistry, I'm curious to understand what are some healthy markers for people to look out for, whether they're dating or in a relationship for somebody that is, I mean, who are we to say who's good for you, who's not, but somebody who feels like they're healthy for them?

Well, I think it's important that we get clear on what we want, like what we really want. And so this whole list that I see people come up with sometimes, it's great, but it doesn't... Usually within that list, there are two or three things that are the most important things. Now, for example, with women, what I hear a lot, when women get really clear on what it is they want, normally, it's they want a man who is conscious and present and able to lead them someplace they can't lead themselves. Beautiful. Now, that man may not be their best friend, may not want to go shopping, may not fit a lot of the other things that you see on these lists sometimes. And because if If what I hear from a lot of women is that I want a highly masculine man, well, highly masculine is very focused on purpose and single-mindedly focused. And if she wants a masculine man, he may not fit all of the other things, but he might fit the two most important things really well. And so this idea of finding the right person starts with the practice of getting super clear on what do you need in your deepest sexual intimacy?

What are you craving in your deepest sexual intimacy? And for men, for example, what men oftentimes aren't clear on is that they're craving a certain energy, or they're craving what the masculine craves from the feminine sexually is energy in all of its forms. Energy, responsiveness, devotion, sexual energy, playfulness, joy, All of those things make a woman highly attractive. What the feminine is craving from the masculine is the ability to be led well, to be felt deeply, to be held strongly, to be... I'll use the word penetrated because that's really penetrated with consciousness. They're looking for someone who's deeper than them, and Those things, once you're super clear on those things, then attracting the right partner or at least setting your sights on the right partner, get a little more clear.

Okay, that's helpful. And what about the woman right now who's driving? And we talked about how there's resentments that come up when they don't want to have sex anymore with their partner. What's the point of no return? Where it's like, I don't think of our relationship, the dynamic is so deeply entrenched. There's nothing we can do? Or is there such a thing? Do you think that everything is figure-outable?

No, there are points of no return, but most people think that they're they are. And the benchmark that I like to use is, so for If you're at a place where you don't want to have sex with your partner, there's some things that you should work on before you actually end the relationship. Because if you don't, you're just going to find another person who you will eventually end up in the same spot. Because we continue to repeat these karmic lessons with our partners again and again and again, the grass is always greener piece is not necessarily true. In fact, it's not true. If we don't clean up what's wrong in our current relationship, donuts to dollars, we're going to bring it to our next one. So my suggestion for the woman driving who says, I just don't want to sleep with my partner, well, ask yourself the question, why don't I trust him? What is it that I don't trust about this man? And then have a real conversation with him and say, Look, I'm finding myself unattracted to you sexually, or I'm finding myself wanting to leave, and it's because I don't trust you here.

You're not living your deepest purpose. You are not taking care of your body. You're not a man of your word. And I literally have a super clear conversation with why they don't trust their partner and see how he responds. There's a certain way to frame it, and that way is what I would need from you. In order for me to trust you with my life, my heart, my body, to want to surrender to you sexually, I would need you to... And then there's a list of things. And usually when a woman, and I'm speaking specifically to the feminine here, when a When a woman loses sexual attraction in a man, it's because she loses trust in him as a man and as someone who can lead her somewhere. When a man loses sexual attraction, it's because he's not receiving the energy that he craves from his feminine partner normally.

And what about energy?

And I'm speaking very hetero. This is very hetero. Let me just say that. No, I love this.

Yeah, fair disclaimer. I mean, the majority of my audience is heterosexual. I've done some surveying, and I'm curious to understand from you. I love what you said about trust. I haven't heard that necessarily before, but it makes a lot of sense to me. I'm also curious, just as we're talking about this, from a standpoint of attraction and fixing things, what are some things that you might hear somebody say out of their mouth that you're like, Oh, that's not fixable?

Well, physical violence is usually not Because that's usually a red flag, get the hell out. Everything else normally is fixable. I mean, it's really so many people are willing to blame their partners for the lack of attraction rather than take 100% responsibility. And it's my personal pet pee because I see it all the time. And I'm not saying you stay, but I'm saying that you bring... If each of us looked at our relationships and said, You know what? I'm 100% responsible responsible for the state of our relationship. I'm wearing my sweats to bed. I'm giving him nothing but masculine energy. I'm criticizing him behind his back. I'm leaking sexual energy to other men. I'm And you know what I mean? Take a really strong inventory of how you're showing up in the relationship before you're just willing to say, Oh, it's over. He's not the man for me. And fix those things first and see You see what it is that you... Where are you withholding... I'm talking to women now, again. Where are you withholding your heart? If he's on the phone most of the time and you're angry, annoyed, and/or heartbroken by his lack of consciousness and presence, then are you sharing that with him, or are you just holding on to it, and then at the end of the night, calling him an asshole or barking him.

I mean, all of those things... I work with a lot of women, and teasing those things apart takes some time, some awareness, and some deep personal reflection. And same for the men. I run a year-long program. And a lot of what we're talking about is, where am I abdicating leadership to her? Where am I letting her lead? Where am I forcing her to lead? Powerful. Yeah. And unless men take that inventory and really take a hard look at, where am I not trustable? Where do other men not trust me? Where am I fooling myself? Where am I full of shit? Where am I Where am I numbing myself? This is a big problem with men. Where am I numbing myself so that I'm showing up numb most of the time? Am I addicted to porn, to alcohol, to work, to something? My phone. My phone that makes me be numb. And if men aren't willing to look at that first, then they have no idea whether their relationship is, and they're going to bring that to the next relationship. So unless you've actually done the work to take 100 % responsibility for where your relationship is, especially the men, then I think that leaving prematurely is a problem.

Now, to answer your question, if both partners have done that, if you've done the work to really see about recreating sexual polarity and recreating intimacy and really owning your truths and taking care of your own business, so to speak. If you've done all that for six months or so or a year, six months or a year, and nothing has changed, things are just as horrible as six months ago, then maybe it's time to leave. But most people won't do that. And the problem that I see is, again, that they bring it to their next relationship. Now, on the positive side, if they do that, if If, for example, let's say you said you have a lot of, would you call them boss babes? Yeah, they are.

One of my best friends founded boss babes, so they are the boss babes.

Okay, good. Yeah, so girl bosses, right? Yeah. So if a woman is in that energy all day long, and then she doesn't transition when she gets home, and so she's in her masculine, she's directing him when she gets home or still wearing that cloak of masculine leadership, and she doesn't take a bath or move her body or do something to soften, and she wonders why he doesn't want to have sex, that's an area to start, right? And becoming more and more fluid so that, especially for women, moving from the workforce into the love space requires a lot more fluidity and the ability to move between your feminine and your masculine quite artfully. And that's something that a lot of women are learning. But that's a big reason that sexual attraction will die.

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She's I love this because number one, this has happened to me. I was with somebody for five years. I called off our wedding, and as I'm listening to you, it didn't feel workable. But I do see a lot of areas where I lost trust, and it was just so many years. I don't know. It was like a happy genius for me to throw in the towel, not because I didn't love the person, but because I didn't want to fight for the relationship anymore. I learned so much about myself. We change so much as we get older. I'm curious also to understand from you because one of the dynamics that we had in play, I've noticed with a friend of mine, and this is a loaded situation, so I'm curious what we can look at here for everybody listening. She's a friend, not a super close friend, but she's a pretty big public figure. And And she had a really good guy, and she was making the money, and it really bothered her. She wouldn't admit it until she eventually did. And it ended up evolving into her wanting to leave him for the CEO, the power powerful CEO type.

And not only did she do that, but she made sure that she found one before she even left him.

Yeah, that happens a lot with women.

Yeah. I hate to sound like I have judgment because to me, loyalty is such a thing, but I also know that people are human. And so I'm curious what your thoughts are on that dynamic where it's like, I'm making the money and I'm performing better than him. And what you see happen there, what that's really about. And then also I feel like, why do people cheat? Because to me, I kept saying to her, just let him know that you don't want to be together anymore. And in some words or another, her response was, well, I want to find somebody first. And she didn't say it that transparently, but that was what I gathered, and that's what happened. And the irony is that the person she found ended up breaking up with her just weeks into it saying, you're not nurturing enough, which I thought was really interesting. So I'm curious to unpack this entire dynamic because I think there's so many pieces of it that so many people listening can relate to.

Yeah. Well, let me start with why people cheat. It's the same thing I said about why you lose sexual interest. So if a man is with a woman who's not bringing him energy, which to a masculine body is nourishment. And the more on purpose a man is, the more energy he craves. Now, if you're with a guy who is not doing a lot, is not really living a big life and not is focusing his energy fully on something that really matters to him, his mission, then he doesn't need as much energy. But if a man is on mission, he needs a lot of energy, sexual energy, naughty energy, flirty energy, playful energy, devotional energy. And if a man is not receiving that energy from a particular woman, he'll think, Oh, I need another woman that's going to bring me that energy. And so that's why the classic example is is then falling in love with their yoga instructor, or in the '50s, it was their secretary, because the secretary was devotional. The secretary brought devotion. But the classic example is it's just basically they need energy. And the reason a woman cheats is because she feels that she's not being led someplace, that she can't lead herself.

And if that happens, in the example of your friend, she probably felt that he wasn't able to lead her someplace deep. And I imagine that it wasn't really about the money. I imagine that it was about his capacity to lead her someplace. Now, for example, if he was writing a book on something that really mattered in the world, and his purpose was really cleaning clean and clear, and he was a man who was in his body and had impeccable integrity and the capacity to be really present and take her someplace deep sexually, the money would not have mattered. And if it still did, then that's more her shallowness than anything. Because, again, it's one of those things. I imagine if you asked her what really matters in a relationship, what do you really want from the man who you love? I doubt it's money. It's more the capacity to lead her someplace deep into her heart and into her pleasure that she can't take herself. Most women don't even realize that that's what's missing or that's what they're yearning for. Once they do, then they can get some clarity on what man might bring them there.

Beautiful. And it's interesting because she I've since gone on to... I think she's going through a lot of growth, but I relate her to a lot of people. I'm noticing that she just fell for somebody new who has similar wounding to her. So I thought also just talking about dovetailing patterns, if you could share about that, because now I met a guy, I'm friends with him, and he constantly wants to go hard and attract women and win them over, and then he can't hold the connection. So his pattern is that I guess, what people would call a womanizer, right? And he told me, he confided in me that I tend to do this. I'm like, Okay, well, you got to look at that. And funny enough, he told me, We should date. I'm like, You're about 200 coaching sessions away from that, maybe. Just joking with him. He's a light-hearted soul. But he ended up dating her, and one of her things is not really looking at situations, a lot of avoidance. I'm curious, what happens when two people... What is going on? And why is it that... And how can we raise the awareness for the listeners right now of this tendency for two people to attract to each other that have the same wounds?

I don't think they have the same... I don't know if they have the same wounds.

They might be similar. Or that they fit in some ways, that's what I was reading.

Yeah, they did. Well, that's the whole imago match piece. I mean, if your listeners want to read Getting the Love You Want, it'll lay it out there with painstaking clarity. So, yeah, we're going to attract people who are going to wound us in the same way that we were wounded as children, because that's what we learned love is. We learned that love is leaving us in a certain way, neglecting us in a certain way, abandoning us in a certain way, abusing us in a certain way. And we learn to attract people like that. Or if we don't attract people like that, we will make them. We will literally push them into the position where they do the thing that that we don't want them to do, or we say we don't want them to do, consciously don't want them to do. And so this idea of, Look, we all do it. Even those of us who are relationship experts do it. They've proven it now over 60 years of studying it. You almost can't help it. You're going to attract somebody. The difference is that if you're conscious of it, Then you can begin to heal it and make art from it and make it a really beautiful experience and actually become a healing force for each other's wounds rather than rewound each other.

People who are unconscious in this area will continually rewound each other in the same way that they were wounded when they were young. People who are not conscious, who are conscious in this area will begin to become healing forces for those wounds. And that's where you see some really beautiful relating going on.

I know that we're getting into sexual chemistry, and I've literally gone on five tangents with you because you're so interesting. So I'm curious for everybody listening who has listened to you and thought, Yeah, I don't trust my partner because of this, or, I don't trust that guy that I'm dating because of that. Maybe that's why I don't feel like that sexual chemistry or connection. So I'm curious, what's a starting point for someone, step one, when it comes to creating or reigniting sexual chemistry?

Well, depending on... I think the first part is to get clear on your essence and then learn how to embody your essence. So if you are a feminine, identified human, your essence is love and energy. That's your essence. The feminine in all of us is driven by the desire for love. The masculine in all of us is driven by the desire for freedom. Now, Freedom for the masculine takes the form of making a ton of money or doing a project that liberates the world or writing the book or making the film or sexual freedom, having lots of partners. The feminine in us is wanting love. The masculine in us is wanting freedom. If you want to create the deepest, most sustainable sexual chemistry with your partner, it's going to require, if If you're a masculine partner, and this is going to sound a little woo- woo, but this is the ancient Chinese secret, so to speak, you are going to have to learn to embody the deepest part of you. Your masculine essence is the part of you that never changes. So you have a part of you. I have a part of you that is deep and unchanging and infinite.

You know what I'm saying? The ability to be that, to embody that, to literally show that through my body is called presence. So the ability to be present and be conscious is a masculine currency, sexual currency. Does that make sense? Yeah. Okay. The feminine sexual currency, which a feminine being would want to cultivate, is pleasure in her body and yearning in her heart. So if she wants to be... I mean, it's irresistible for a man to feel the part of you that is yearning to be loved, ravished, penetrated, taken someplace deep sexually, and feel pleasure in your body. Those two things, if you put them together as a feminine being, literally are magnetic, just like consciousness and presence, and groundedness are magnetic for a a feminine partner to a masculine being. So the ability to create and sustain sexual chemistry starts with that. I mean, there's a lot more to it. We could not get into it in a single podcast, but it's a personal practice. My teacher calls it a yoga or an art that we can develop. The myth of chemistry is that it just happens or it doesn't. That's bullshit. I work with couples who are together 20 years, 25 years, who learn to do a few things for each other.

And boom, not only do they have all the history and trust and love that they had in their relationship, but now you add sexual polarity to that, and they have a really deep, beautiful reawakening.

Wow. I love that. Okay. So before we started recording, just talking about step one for creating sexual chemistry, training yourself to conduct more love through the body. So that's femininity, right? You were saying the and the masculine wants love, and the masculine wants freedom. This makes me want to ask you about polyamory.

Can I say just a little bit more about that one concept? Yeah, please do. So the masculine, if I'm a masculine person, which I am, then I experience pleasure through your body and yearning through your heart as love. So your ability to conduct those two things through your body. There's more, but let's just start with those two. Those two things through your body, devotion is another big one, right? Through your body occurs to me as love. So that's what I mean by learn to conduct more love through your body. And then if you're a feminine being, then my conscious grounded presence occurs to you as love. Would you say that that's true for you as a woman?

Definitely.

Yeah. So the personal practice to be able to cultivate those things is the learning to conduct more love through your body.

And what does that really look like? What is someone who, if you look at them, you say, Oh, wow, they've really learned how to conduct love their body. What is an example of somebody that would look like that?

Well, you can see. I mean, we all know. I'm sure you know a man who walks into a room and he's been a meditator for years, and he's in his body. He breathes deeply, not shallowly like most men do. You can feel that it's not just a state that he's in for a moment, but it's a trait he's cultivated for years. He walks into the room and you can feel like, wow, that's a deep man, or that's a conscious man, or that's a present man. You know guys like that. You've seen them, right? They're hot. Yeah. Yeah, they're hot. And so that trait development takes practice, just like a martial artist, just to become a really deep martial artist or a beautiful dancer takes practice. So we just feel these these people, we end up paying them a lot of money as entertainers, right? Or we end up really wanting to be around them because they're so rare. But what we don't realize is that those traits can be trained. And we can actually, and this is basically what I do for a living, is I teach people these skillsets so that they can bring these things to their relationship and create a deeper experience.

So So, yeah, it's one of those things like you know a radiant woman when you see it. And all radiance means is that she's conducting energy through her body. That's what radiance is. So The ability to conduct energy through your body, the ability to reveal your heart is a huge feminine practice, to reveal the truth of your heart, to be vulnerable, to be devotional, to be And men have it, too. But for a woman who's a feminine being and she wants to attract a masculine man, it's crucial to develop those things. And when people do, they're just very attractive.

The world is your sexual oyster at that point.

So to speak, yeah.

Really, yeah. And looking at polyamory, and I know those of you listening, they might not even know what polyamory is. I'm curious what this looks like, because when you talk about the masculine wanting freedom, and maybe they want sexual freedom. They don't want to commit to one person for the rest of their life or a woman who wants sexual freedom. So I'm curious to understand what we can share with everyone about polyamory and how this plays into feminine energy, masculine energy, and polarity.

Okay, well, it's a loaded topic, but I'll give my best, and it may piss some of your listeners off. That's fine. But normally, polyamory was a masculine created practice, right? And normally, it was because men were using multiple women who had different energies to fill the void of sexual desire. I said the masculine craves lots of energy. Well, no better way to get a lot of energy than to have a lot of different kinds of women. Most of the time when you see polyamory, when you When you see polyamory working, it's because there's such a beautiful container around it so that people can work through the emotional traumas that come up. I don't think I think most polyamory is driven by the masculine, and it doesn't necessarily serve a woman who's in her feminine. A woman who's in her feminine, or a man, for that matter, wants to to be filled with consciousness, wants to be filled with attention, awareness. Consciousness is just another word for attention, and depth, and presence. And a woman who is looking for multiple male partners is usually dissatisfied with her primary partner and thinks that other partners will fill that void.

When she finds a man who really does fill that void, what I've seen is that she doesn't want to be polyamorous anymore. She's like, Okay, that's the texture of consciousness that I've been looking for my whole life, and I don't want to be polyamorous anymore. So it's a weird... It's actually worked out to be quite a weird dynamic that I've seen. I don't see it work very well, very often, because there's a lot of shadow behind it. There's a lot of sexual shadow, and I know we don't have time to get into that, but that's just my take on polyamory.

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Another step you talked about to create sexual chemistry. And before we even get into that, I have a friend who is with a really wonderful guy. He's polyamorous. She isn't. She's so in love with him. She is opening her mind. What is your thought on that a dynamic where maybe somebody falls in love with someone who has a sexual preference that they haven't considered, or maybe they're not comfortable with and they don't even know whether they're comfortable with it?

Yeah, my guess is that she won't be comfortable with it for long. Okay. Yeah. My guess is that in six months after he's come home from a few experiences and she can feel these other women, it will break her heart. Okay. Yeah. And a lot of women, like I said, when a woman feels deeply known, seen, and led someplace very deep sexually, she will do almost anything for that love. And oftentimes, that includes agreeing to things that she's not necessarily into and And a lot of men, quite frankly, will, and I see this in a lot of, quote, unquote, conscious men, they will use polyamory as a... And this is my pet peeve, right? They actually use it as a way to fill sexual hunger at the expense of their feminine partners. And they basically bludgeon the feminine partner saying, Oh, this is not You're not practicing enough, or you're not being spiritual enough, or you're not trusting love enough. I mean, there's a whole language that a lot of guys use, and I think it's gross, to be honest.

Okay. Yeah. Not all. I love how quiet you are.

Yes. Some guys Some guys do it well. I have a couple of students who are polyamorous, and they do it extremely well. They hold the container super tightly. They hold their partner super tightly. There's really great rules around it all. There's a lot of space to hold the heartbreak as it inevitably comes up. If she's madly in love with this guy and he's sleeping with other women, he's got to hold her heartbreak for a week or so afterwards. The question that I I would ask men who want to engage in this is, is it serving anybody but you, really?

Well, I'm sure that there would be a lot of arguments around the extra energy and what they learn or the growth, I'm imagining. But gosh, I wouldn't be familiar with it as such a monogamous person right now looking to find the love of life.

Yeah, I just call bullshit on a lot of it because a lot of the times they use that as a spiritual weapon. Like, oh, but it's growth to be... You know what I And I just don't necessarily see that anybody... I just think that people are rewounded. And now your friend may have abandonment wounds from her childhood, and so she chooses a guy to go back to... And I don't know if this is true or not, but I'm putting it out there. So she chooses a guy who's going to abandon her, and that's what love is to her nervous system. Anyway, so that's my take on polyamory. And like I said, you're amorous listeners are probably going to send me hate mail, but that's okay.

It's fine. My first internship, I used to work in counterterrorism, John. My first internship was opening Arnold Schwarzenegger's mail during the time of Anthrax as an intern, and I am all good with the hate mail. I've gotten plenty, whether it's dressed to me or not. So no problem being polarizing, pun intended, for sexual polarity. Okay, so those of you listening, you're taking notes. I know you are. You guys tell me have been, which is so great. And so number one, just training yourself to conduct more love through the body, which, as you said, John, that's something that is so much more than just a podcast, but the concept of relaxing into your loving essence. If you're wanting to step into your feminine energy, I would say, I don't want to butcher the way that you would summarize that. And then second, learning to become resonant. Tell me about this.

Well, sexual intimacy has two pillars. The first is the intimacy piece, and the second is the sexual polarity piece. And that's why when someone says, I don't want to sleep with my partner, oftentimes the intimacy piece is all fucked up. They don't trust them. They don't trust them to honor their feelings. They don't trust them to honor what they think and feel as valid. And so what that does is create separation. Intimacy is a recognition of sameness. And the sameness happens when you... We've all had the experience, or many of us have the experience of looking into another's eyes and feeling, I'm human, you're human. I have a soul, you have a soul. And that experience is very deep and very beautiful. It's not necessarily sexy, though, but it's deep. And it can happen with you and a baby. It can happen with you and a pet. It could happen with you and a tree, for Christ's sake. I've had some moments with trees where I just like, blah, blah, blah. The deep feeling into and of another is intimacy. It's a same. It's a recognition of sameness. Well, sexual polarity is the I act opposite.

I am conscious presence. You are pleasure and love. And when we come together, there's an energetic or magnetic pull because I'm animating my masculine as deeply as possible. You're animating your feminine. I am structure. You are energy. I am consciousness. You are love. I am nothingness. You are everything. I am death. You are life. It's yin and yang. This is not new. This has been in ancient... This has been part of an ancient theory for thousands, if not more, tens of thousands of years.

Okay. Number three, you said is animating difference when it comes to creating sexual chemistry. And I find this really interesting because I know a lot of listeners here might not know your approach to or your mindset on what feminine energy is, because anybody listening to me, my belief is the trademark of an evolved soul is someone who can walk in all of the energies, right? Feminine energy, masculine. Sure, of course. So I'm curious what your take is when it comes to animating difference. What does What does that mean? And how can we expand on these energies for everybody to grasp them a little bit more?

Yeah. Well, I love this idea of the evolved soul is able to own their masculine, own their feminine. I mean, I teach a lot of men to own their feminine, and in very specific ways. And so let's say you have an evolved soul who has both, and the evolved soul is a woman and her essence is feminine. At her core, she's feminine. Well, if she wants to create sexual polarity as a gift or as a way to create a sacred sexual experience, she would animate the part of herself. She would amplify and transmit. So femininity and Masculinity are just transmissions of energy. They're just transmissions of energy. And so to be a feminine partner means that I'm going to feel deeply into my heart, into the place of me that is love. I'm going to cultivate pleasure in my body, and I'm going to transmit it as deeply as I can to my partner. And then the masculine partner would be, okay, I'm going to connect to the part of me that is deep and infinite. I'm going to deepen my breath. I'm going to ground my body, and I'm going to transmit that to my partner as a gift.

And when two partners do that, then you have a deep sexual experience. So And a shit ton of attraction. I mean, it's just it doesn't take... Talking about it, it sounds hysterical, but when you see it, you're like, oh, yeah, right. This dude, right? Who's the dude? I'm trying to think of a guy that really qualifies as someone you would consider a deep masculine presence. If you look at him, you'll see all the traits that I just outlined. And the same with someone who's really beautiful, radiant, sexy, feminine presence. She'll see all the traits that I just talked about.

Yeah. Actually, one of my closest friends, Alyssa N'Obrega, her husband, Emilio, is a deep, beautiful, masculine, conscious presence. And all of the women and their husbands, all the girls in my group of friends are like, Why don't you talk to Emilio? Because he's just such a beautiful, integrated, present soul, and he notices everything. He's so attuned. I went to Burning Man with them, and I was learning how to ride a bike, which is so embarrassing that I've never learned how to ride a bike until Burning Man. But he noticed every time I would wince back. I was scared that a bike flew at me, and he's just so attuned. Maybe a good invitation for anybody listening is to look and see where in your world does that man exist to model after or to pay attention to that. John, this has been amazing.

Men's groups, women's groups are great places to go. I mean, this is why I'm such a big fan of both. If you If you want to animate more of your feminine, spend time in a women's group that's dedicated to that. If you want to animate your masculine, spend more time in a men's group that is dedicated to deep practice and deep experience.

This has been so beautiful. I'm so curious where everybody can learn from you, what you have going on for everybody listening.

Well, they can hit my website. My woman's program is sold out. My men's program is almost sold out, and that starts in late April. I have a few spots left for men in a co-ed program that's eight months long that I teach with Kendra Kunow, that takes a lot of what we're talking about and actually puts it into practice. So I have a few spots for that. That's called the Relationship Salon. And then I have a number of workshops going on over the next year, and all that stuff is listed on my website. So johnwineland. Com, and they can get all the information they need.

Oh, thank you so much for your time. This has It's so wonderful.

Good. Thank you, Ashley. It's my pleasure.

Hey, guys, it's Ash. I don't even know what I'm going to talk to you about on this post-episode conversation because John just threw it down so hardcore that I'm nearly speechless, which God knows is like a miracle from above. But just thinking about two areas that he really talked about is when the sex dies in a relationship, he talked about the woman not trusting the man and the man not feeling she's devoted to him. And of course, there's gender stereotypes, there's sexual stereotypes, there's generalizations in here. But I think it's important for people who are academics or experts to sometimes generalize and put things in a box so that they can diagnose and treat things and recommend things. And so while not everybody is going to fit in the boxes that John and I went through, I thought it was really powerful that he was able to put his finger on how a woman stops wanting to sexually connect with her partner when she doesn't trust him in some way. I was just in Amsterdam this past weekend giving another TED Talk, and it'll probably be live by the time you hear this episode called How to Figure Out What You Really Want.

When I was giving this talk, I met a couple before I got on stage, and there's something up with them, and I couldn't put my finger on it until later when I had some time to think. I realized it was that the woman felt like she was resentful towards the guy. I realized that that is just one version of what it looks like when somebody loses trust, is that you get hurt and then you get resentful or you don't believe in somebody, whatever have you. I think that one of the most scary things that I've dealt with throughout my life is the question of, is there really one person you can spend the rest of your life with and have it all with? Can you have connection? Can you have understanding? Can you have deep love? Can you have sexual chemistry? Can you have all of it? More than ever, I'm starting to become an optimist in love after having called off my wedding, after having dated so many different types of guys. Many of them were amazing guys. One was a narcissist. In my own relationship in dating history, there's only one guy that stands out to me that I don't have positive things to say.

But otherwise, I feel like I've had nurturing, loving relationships, but I lost attraction to a lot of my partners at some point. I wanted to just highlight the question of trust and what does trust really mean to you and what is trust really about. I've really started to think a lot about what do I do to build trust with somebody. I thought a lot about the word loyalty. For example, my friend Sarah had some friends over from... She comes from Michigan, and she had some friends in town for her wedding. There's a lot of us there to celebrate her at her wedding. But there was something side of me that felt such a loyalty towards her, that what that looked like for me was making an effort with the friends she had that I didn't really know. Whether they resonated for me or not, I wanted to make the effort because that felt like loyalty. I realized that that loyalty builds trust Trust builds connection, builds love. When I also think about what trust means to me, I think a lot about follow through and how we all have different things we need from partners to have trust.

There's so many layers. As a woman, Maybe you stop trusting your partner's ability to provide or ability to show up in their career or maybe they're not confident. If somebody else isn't confident, how do you believe in them yourself if they don't believe in themselves? Trust has many, many layers. But The question I want to ask you to self-examine is really, how do you build trust with someone else? What are your strategies for that? Because one of my strategies is to foster a sense of loyalty, which means if somebody brings somebody into our world that nobody else knows, I go out of my way to get to know that person. It's not just because I want to show my friend I care, but because to me, that is loyalty, that is showing trust, that is showing connection. Another way that I build trust with somebody is I show up I say I'm going to show up, and I do what I say I'm going to do. And so I'm curious for you, do you show up when you say you're going to show up? Do you say what you're going to do and do it?

Do you do what you say? I think that there's so many people in the world that have different ways of building trust. And I think that often we forget to really look at how we build trust with ourselves and with other people. Another thing that's really profound I wanted to share with you was throughout my master's in spiritual psychology, one of the topics that came up, and I think I've talked about this before, was incomplete actions, incomplete cycles of actions. They call them ICA's, I-C-A's. And according to research, one of the best ways to trust yourself is to do what you say you're going to do. So means making commitments and making good on them. If you say you're going to lose 5 pounds and go to the gym every day and you stop doing that, you actually hurt your relationship and your self-esteem with yourself. I would say right now, taking a look at, can you even trust yourself? Because our life is a mirror and you can't create a partner for you that is highly trustworthy if you're not. And so I would say asking yourself, do you make good on the promises that you make to yourself?

Do you keep the promises that you make to yourself? Or are you hurting your own self-esteem and your own belief in yourself by not honoring the things you say you're going to do? And just really leaving you with that question, what is something you said you were going to do that you're not making good on? And how is that damaging your self-esteem and lowering the quality of your standards for yourself and for other people in your life? So I could say a lot about John's episode, but he was so powerful and profound. I feel like I really have nothing to say about sexual chemistry because he's such an expert. Would love to hear what you think about this episode. And again, I have to always thank you for the written iTunes reviews. They do so much for the podcast. It means so much that you're sharing it on Insta stories, you're posting it on Instagram, you're hashtagging it. I can't thank you enough for getting the word out on the show. It means the world to me. I would love to hear from you on my DMs at Ashley Stahl on the Gram. Let me know, what episode do you want me to cover?

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