Alright ladies and gentleman... The topic came up about the admiration of a women's beauty and sex appeal by men and their tendency to 'gauk' or 'look' at a women they find attractive. @James Humecky suggested we expand on the conversation about a man's visual attraction to a woman (https://www.skool.com/somatic-pleasure-7120/it-seems-like-im-having-a-little-day-off-dont-worry-my-little-munchkins-i-have-not-forgotten-about-you?p=80b1deb3). As @Ossie Osmond put it, if a man is on a 'diet' he can look at the 'menu' without sampling the food. It is an interesting perspective and clearly quite common, as I suggested, men are typically quite visual creatures. My two cents were: It is very natural to 'observe' beautiful things and people around us. The key is impulse control... when you've made a commitment to yourself or another (aka on a 'diet' 😆). In my humble opinion, it is important to keep the observation classy & respectful... No vulgar unwelcomed comments and Ideally no rubber-necking (especially if they are with another lady). I am also aware and have witnessed and experienced different cultural norms and behaviors around this as well. @Rositsa Aleksandrova @Margaret Barr @Chanie Twersky @Val Vosburg Any of you ladies have any additional thoughts or comments on a man perusing the field? This further led into the broader topic of 'self-control' and what do you (whether you're a man or a woman) find to be most attractive?

What is your 1% shift today? What is the one tiny change you can actually make ..... today? 🐘🍰 I know me. I want to change everything right now. Jump from zero to fully transformed by Tuesday. 😅 But most real change happens one bite at a time. Call it micro habits. Call it 1% better. Call it eating the elephant one bite at a time… or for the animal lovers, one forkful of cake at a time. 🎂 That’s why I started with 20 minutes of meditation, not an hour. I knew I could do 20. Small wins build trust. Trust builds discipline. Discipline builds a life.

What did we call ourselves before we were called humans? Human is a word I always ponder like….what the hell does it mean? A colorful patriarchy?

We are growing and we are more international than ever!!! Check out the map and see where people are from and who's close to you!🇺🇸 Also ..... join me in welcoming all our newest Somatic Pleasure community members: @Karin Crawford (Video marketing on Streaming TV)🇺🇸 @Andréanne Brault (Passion, authenticity, honesty, courage, empathy)🇨🇦 @Rena Nicole (Author & Storyteller)🇺🇸 @Alicia Powers (decision scientist who builds data environments for wellness practitioners) 🇺🇸 @Donny Baker (Helping audio engineers get their first paying clients) 🇺🇸 @Angel D Wold (I can't wait to learn everything I can) 🇨🇦 @Sebrina Hendri Zahir (I'm here to grow and glow. 💖) 🇮🇱 @Michael Russo (pretty sure I’m brainwashed) 🇺🇸 @Daner Bervari (I help Skoolers spend with intention.) 🇮🇶 @Val Vosburg (Energy Exchange Facilitator) 🇺🇸 @Jennifer Kastelic (Teacher, now online teaching English.) 🇺🇸 (?) @Curtis Ray Bizelli (Founder, CEO, Publisher, Watchman of The End Times) 🇺🇸 @Jeremy Miller (A caregiver turned Uber driver) 🇺🇸 @Michael Botha (Been stuck in the system and seeking to get out) 🇺🇸

Gunna start with this quote in case I content dumped/ranted for you too much to make it to the end to see it xD. “Rest, imagine, participate. Exploring it all, through those 3 lenses. Learning is a constant struggle… but it is stable and bears fruit and gets easier and isn’t neglectful.” - Me :) Also, my book is on Amazon as an ebook and it’s called Safe Scientists of the Garden of Life - if you’re at all interested after reading this. I’m Michael, I’m an earthling hailing from and currently residing in Orange County, California, learning how to do life for myself after finding nothing really works for me and even worse confuses or hurts me. I’m finding some exciting stuff and hoping to find more alongside like-minded people along the way! I made a Skool originally for fitness accountability which wasn’t as naturally self-enjoying/developing for and by those who joined without me constantly hyping it up as I thought it would be nor did I have the energy to keep it afloat if hyping it up were possible. I’ve been finding quite a lot of really cool life stuffs, some of which I actually wrote a book on with AI assistance, because I’m not classically trained as a writer, and while it’s incomplete and over-claimy with poor language choices by AI and published prematurely due to riding-the-creative-surge-lightning burnout, it is a satisfying minimum mostly-viable version until I finish its updates! And something cool is popping up that’s sort of akin to like a new religion minus the religion part I can’t help but keep pondering how it feels like a legit IRL gamification, mythic navigation boat and creative content umbrella, as well as a Star Trek on Earth first type character and philosophy that makes absolute sense to me(the book). I’m expanding and condensing them as I live out what I learn and it keeps building. I’m in process of editing the book and finding all sorts of awesome content and a lot of health healing growth and real world progression and development personally all along the way which makes it even more exciting to me and I’m hoping for lots of others too once I can release a viable first package!