Creativity is often associated with the arts, but actually, creativity can enhance every area of your life; from chores, to your 9 to 5, to date night. This is because creativity goes hand in hand with intuition, intelligence, and that feeling of ‘flow’. In psychology, “flow state” refers to complete immersion in an activity - characterized by lost sense of time, deep focus, and effortless action.

Another place where creativity counts? In the bedroom. There’s a reason The Joy of Sex has sold over 10 million copies. People love sex; it can be playful, fun, emotional, connective, erotic, quick, slow, kinky, relaxed...and a whole lot of other adjectives.

What is Sex All About?

At the root of it, sex is about making babies. Evolution always wins, it finds a way to make sure the species survives. For humans, that way was to make it feel too damn good not to do it. Good sex can transport you out of your everyday awareness into a world elsewhere. What is not to love about that?

in fact, Neuroimaging studies show that orgasm involves not just sensory arousal but also “shutdown” of brain regions tied to self-monitoring and critical thought—which is why you feel like you’ve left the room.

We can ramp up that feel-good juiciness deliberately. There is an energy spiral that flows up from your vagina, through your belly to your heart and then into your mind. This energy is feminine by nature, no matter who is using it. Because of its feminine nature, it moves in a sort of spiral, versus a straight line. When you’re feeling turned on, or in the heat of things, you can watch and even manipulate this energy to spiral up.

Although the “spiral energy” metaphor is symbolic, the underlying concept aligns with how autonomous nervous system arousal in sexual activity can fan into heart-rate increase, deep breathing, full-body tingles, and heightened interoceptive awareness—sensations then feed creative ideation.

This conscious distribution of your sexual energy can also make your orgasms that much stronger and felt throughout the whole body and can greatly increase your innovation and creativity.

Sexual Energy

When we are rooted in our sexual energy, we are super creative. Boundaries and barriers fall away. Just think about that post-sex banter from which great ideas and inspiration flow. Who hasn’t made a life-changing plan while lying among tousled sheets, slightly sweaty, floating, dreaming, imagining? One recent review links orgasmic or sexual arousal states with increased divergent thinking - an ingredient of creativity - because arousal lifts inhibition and increases associative thinking.

Sex is life-affirming. Being connected with another person, being truly present, focused, and undistracted by mundane thoughts of life logistics allows us to be vulnerable and open during sex. Being vulnerable allows us to tap into the tender parts of us, the often hidden loving center. In this space, judgment falls away and we can experience the joy and peace of truly seeing and being seen by another. Vulnerability and “being seen” activate brain systems tied to oxytocin (social bonding hormone) and reduce activity in threat-detection circuits—making creativity and connection more likely.

What If I'm Solo?

Now, maybe you’ve been reading this and are feeling more, ‘my sex life is less romance novel and more girls-gone-wild fun’ or ‘my sex is less intimate connection with a partner, and more a solo adventure’. We’re still talking to you! Orgasm is one of the peak states we experience as humans and its energy can be channeled for our own benefit. When you’re flying solo, try some orgasmic visualization: as you get closer to climax, visualize and embody anything you want to manifest.

Visualisation during heightened arousal taps into the brain’s neuroplasticity—your brain is more likely to encode ideas as potent when emotion + sensation are high. Use this for creative intention-setting.

Stay tuned for some more blog posts on how you can harness that horsepower when you’re having a twosome party. Until then, godspeed and good orgasms! 😘

Citations:

Wise, N. J., Frangos, E., & Komisaruk, B. R. (2017). Brain activity unique to orgasm in women: An fMRI analysis. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 14(10), 1380-1391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2017.08.002(link: PMC free version) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5675825/

Stoléru, S., Fonteille, V., Cornélis, C., Joyal, C., & Moulier, V. (2012). Functional neuroimaging studies of sexual arousal and orgasm in healthy men and women: A review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 36(2), 1481-1509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.01.008

Runco, M. A., & Jaeger, G. J. (2012). The standard definition of creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 24(1), 92-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2012.650092 (This is a foundational reference for the concept of creativity and divergent thinking.)

He, W.-j., & Wong, W.-c. (2021). Gender differences in the distribution of creativity scores: Domain-specific patterns in divergent thinking and creative problem solving. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 626911. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.626911

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