ABOUT CONSENT WIZARDRY

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When we practice listening to our bodies, we practice honesty. We practice a radical form of listening that honors our inner wisdom. Our mindfulness protects our bodies and our spirits from the onslaught of negative messages from judgmental, frustrated people, advertising, the media, and all the forces outside us that chip away at our protective energy. 

When we practice this full-body listening as a form of love for ourselves and others, we practice magic. We stop comparing ourselves to others because we feel grounded and rooted in our bodies. Through this practice, we are able to arrive to all human interactions from a place of abundance. Through listening and being present, we can truly share the load without losing our sense of self. 

Creativity, imagination, and play flow when we feel safe. A strong consent practice can give us that sense of safety within ourselves and within our relationships. This sense of safety and stability gives us roots and, most importantly, confidence. We need to be confident in order to put an end to judgment, defensiveness, jealousy, comparing ourselves to others, and putting others down in order to lift ourselves up. The alchemy of consent is its ability to transform us from dissociated and insecure into embodied and confident.

In our body lives trauma, inherited and experienced. In our body lives knowledge that we can only access if we reject Cartesian dualism and stop viewing our bodies and our minds as being in conflict. They are, in fact, one in the same.

Confidence is necessary for understanding our boundaries and being able to voice them. Confidence is integral to consent. I can only fulfill my desires with integrity if I am confident that I know what they are, confident that I deserve to fulfill them, and confident enough to ask. I can only accept gifts and express gratitude if I believe I deserve; I can only serve others if I set the limits of my resources and believe that I have something to offer; and I can only surrender to the other if I believe that what I have is worthwhile and desirable. 

This confidence originates in my relationship to my body. I can only care for my body if I know that I can hear what it’s telling me. Only once I trust my ability to listen can I be confident that I know what I’m hearing. Our bodies contact us in infinite ways, transmitting sacred knowledge. Consent Wizardry’s mission is to help you listen so that you can be your own guide and set your own path. 

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