Brave, Sara Bareilles

"Brave"
You can be amazing
You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug
You can be the outcast
Or be the backlash of somebody’s lack of love
Or you can start speaking up
Nothing’s gonna hurt you the way that words do
When they settle ‘neath your skin
Kept on the inside and no sunlight
Sometimes a shadow wins
But I wonder what would happen if you
Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave
With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave
I just want to see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I wanna see you be brave
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I wanna see you be brave
Everybody’s been there,
Everybody’s been stared down by the enemy
Fallen for the fear
And done some disappearing,
Bow down to the mighty
Don’t run, just stop holding your tongue
Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live
Maybe one of these days you can let the light in
Show me how big your brave is
Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave
With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave
And since your history of silence
Won’t do you any good,
Did you think it would?
Let your words be anything but empty
Why don’t you tell them the truth?
Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave
With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I wanna see you be brave
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
See you be brave
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you

Roar, (Vintage)

"Roar"

I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath
Scared to rock the boat and make a mess
So I sat quietly, agreed politely
I guess that I forgot I had a choice
I let you push me past the breaking point
I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Already brushing off the dust
You hear my voice, you hear that sound
Like thunder gonna shake the ground
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Get ready 'cause I’ve had enough
I see it all, I see it now
[Chorus]
I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire
'Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar
Louder, louder than a lion
'Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You’re gonna hear me roar
Now I’m floating like a butterfly
Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
I went from zero, to my own hero
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Already brushing off the dust
You hear my voice, you hear that sound
Like thunder gonna shake the ground
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Get ready ’cause I’ve had enough
I see it all, I see it now
[Chorus]
I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire
‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar
Louder, louder than a lion
‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You’re gonna hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You'll hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You're gonna hear me roar...
Ro-oar, ro-oar, ro-oar, ro-oar, ro-oar
I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire
‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar
Louder, louder than a lion
‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You’re gonna hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You'll hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You're gonna hear me roar...

Writer(s)

• Katy Perry
• Lukasz Gottwald
• Max Martin
• Bonnie McKee
• Henry Walter

Sex Transmutation Q&A 2

Answering more of your questions on practical sex transmutation

Brian wrote to me recently asking me for greater clarity on the practice of Sex Transmutation. (Please refer to my main article Sex Transmutation: Sexual Energy into Genius if this is your first time at this website.)

Here is Brian's question:

Hey Wily,
I would like for you to give me specifics on using the immense power of sex transmutation.  Is it you use sexual fantasy energy built up and then transfer that energy to goals? I need step by step directions without all the disconnects I read about on the internet.  
Thank you. 
Brian

And here is my reply:

Hi Brian,

Thanks so much for your email and questions. It's great to hear from you.

I wrote my article on Sex Transmutation a few years ago, and periodically have responded to questions about Sex Transmutation.

I have been revisiting the subject in my own mind the last week or so.

As part of my research, I bought Dr Charles Runel's 'Practical Application of Integrative Sex Transmutation' which is a 2 CD set on the subject. I am half-way through the course and am finding his thoughts on the subject very interesting. I will report back on that in full when I have listened to both CDs. He is a medical doctor and claims to have been using sex transmutation for about 30 years. So far his techniques seem to centre on preservation of the semen either through chastity (abstinence) or by becoming very masterful at sex so that you don't ejaculate... and then redirecting that sex energy into health and work. For the abstinence part, he tells how at college or Med School he eliminated TV and magazines from his life, would read philosophical type books etc before bed, all to cut down on sexually stimulating images and thoughts. He would also work long hours and pride himself on his levels of productivity. That sort of thing. He seems like a very genuine, humble sort of person genuinely interested in helping people and his CDs ($20) might appeal to you.

From my perspective, sex transmutation takes several forms.

1. Inspiration. This is where you use your natural sexual desire for someone to inspire you to be creative. You will have had experiences of this. You fall for a girl. You can't stop thinking about her. You start dating. And because you are in love and lust with her, you start thinking up things you can do to a) impress her b) please her and make her happy c) make her like you. It's kind of a natural thing. You are much more creative in this state than you are normally. It's because your energy, hopes, desires and expectations are all keyed-up with the excitement and all the hormones and 'feel-good' chemicals flooding your body.

How can you use this? Well, if you are in that stage, you can make the most of it by trying to be even more creative. Really push the boat out. Try your hand at writing love letters, poems or songs. If that's not your thing, maybe coming up with elaborate, unforgettable dates. What about practical, profitable uses? Can you be a 'champion' in your profession? Can you let that love/lust drive you to be the best at what you do... in her honor? Can you create a new product and dedicate it to her? What you are trying to do is use the hook (the girl) to feed into your profession and inspire you to greater deeds.

What if there isn't a particular girl that is inspiring you, or you are married and your relationship is a little flat?

What turns you on? You can fantasize or look at nude pics and allow yourself to get inspired by the images you are playing with or looking at. Focus in on what turns you on and start to vocalize or write down what it is that you like. At first you are going to be a bit of a caveman and your description will be just vulgar porno talk... but let it grow from there until you are really getting into what turns you on, like the particular curve of the breast, or the smooth hollow below or beside her hip, or the tautness of her abdomen. For me, I try and write poetry to describe the intensity and beauty of what I am thinking about. I let the 'charge' empower me and empower my writing. I'm using it to lift me up into a higher state, into a more potent form of communication.

The essence of sex transmutation is to get the energy up, and then focus it in on what you want to focus on... as though you are making love/having sex through that. So when I write poetry, my words are sex. I am having sex in the words.

Sex transmutation is the art of getting 'turned-on' and sustaining that heightened state of mind, body and spirit in all that we do. The art is in directing and managing the energy intelligently so that it can create something. Nature's will for sex is creativity... whether of new babies or new ideas. Sex must create.

Wily Walnut

The creative act is to transpose the idea of sex on to your particular project. The idea being that you take the role of the master pleasure giver (and you get your pleasure from that) just as in the ideal sex you are a master of your sexual energy and can last as long as you like and drive your partner to the heights of ecstacy. In a business situation you are the master pleasure giver and your aim in to drive your clients into ecstacy over your products or services. In art, you are the master pleasure giver in making your picture, sculpture or music something that totally wows your audience and gives them a pleasure rush whenever they experience your work.

The other part of inspiration is the Muse. And this involves worship. We see this evolve into religious feeling where mankind invented Goddesses and Gods, which were idealized perfect women and men, that they could then worship. In modern religions like Christianity, you have Nuns becoming 'the brides of Christ' and their worship of this idealized 'perfect' man takes on an almost erotic ecstacy as exemplified by someone like St Theresa of Avila.

You can use this aspect of sex transmutation by idealizing your wife, girlfriend or woman of your desire and seeing them as an embodiment of God, or the Universal Woman. Then all your acts are acts of worship and dedication to them. When you make love, you are actually at worship on the 'prayer mat of the flesh'. So you can play with this idea, and try and dedicate your actions to this idealized spiritual woman or women. In India, they have a system of Yoga (to achieve enlightenment or union with God) called Bhakti Yoga. In this they dedicate everything they do to God with Love, so they do everything with a totally loving attitude as thought they are doing it for God. So if they are washing the floor, in their minds they are washing the floor for God. This transmutes an ordinary situation into a spiritual experience. Can you see how you could do the same thing with sex?

2. Redirection. Napoleon Hill's sex transmutation chapter seems to imply a strong use of willpower to 'channel' sex energy into activity. This reminds me of those old fashioned health books that warned against 'self-abuse' (masturbation) and recommended long walks and cold showers instead! This really is about a deliberate decision to get active and busy and keep pushing into activity rather than to give in to sexual thoughts and indulgence. I've been reading a dog book called, 'Be The Pack Leader' by Cesar Millan from TV's The Dog Whisperer show. He tells how he rehabilitates disturbed dogs with lots of 1) exercise 2) discipline and lastly 3) affection. Dogs have a natural need to channel their energy in purposeful walking. They need the discipline of a strong alpha leader (you, the owner) to be psychologically happy.

I think there are strong parallels with our own biological ancestry needs. In primate groups, it was the alpha male who got the pick of the females. This would have been the case with early humans too. Gradually though we evolved away from pure brute strength alphas. Some of the betas started sneaking in behind the alpha's back to get some quick action with a female. The strategizing required to achieve this helped brains evolve and we started to get more variety occurring in who could mate with the females. The clever ones started to get laid too! It evolved to where the alpha males were not neccessarily just the strongest but also the cleverest and most powerful, in terms of being able to get food (or later money), good territory (property / things), and protection (weapons / leadership). So, our male biology is prepped with the understanding that the cleverer we are and the more we accomplish and become powerful, the more desirable we will be to the opposite sex. And you can see that demonstrated clearly where 80-year-old billionaires have 25-year-old babes on their arm.

So how do you apply this practically?

Really, it's about ramping up your ambition with the understanding that the more you achieve the higher your status. You want to be seen as the silverback of your profession or society.

It is that old bugbear, willpower, discipline. You keep your mind on a tight leash, focussed and purposeful when you are working (with a deep background understanding that it's all about the sex, but that delayed gratification will lead eventualy to greater gratification).

3. Blending. This really refers to what you were talking about with fantasy and goals. Here's how I like to apply it. Let's say that you have a goal to earn an extra $1000 a month. You have some ideas about how you are going to achieve that, or not. But you visualize the goal as achieved. Now, if you are highly motivated by money, it may be enough for you to just visualize having the extra income and what you will do with it. But if you are not especially money minded, you need to add some 'juice' to the visualization. And that's where you can pull some sexual fantasy in. If you already have a partner, you can imagine telling them how you've created this additional $1000 a month, and celebrate it with them. You would see them getting really excited and turned on by what you have done, telling you how pleased and proud they are of you, and then let them reward you by having sex right then and there in whatever ways you want to fantasize (you might even make love in a big pile of money!).

What this does is tie your goal visualization in with a lot of pleasure, linking the two up. It gives you extra energy to make the visualization easier and sustain it longer. It sets up the idea that achievement of the goal will include all this sex gratification. Now remember, keep flitting back to the achievement of the goal itself. Don't get lost in the sex! You will feel horny as you are doing this and will probably get an erection as you are doing it, but don't start masturbating or seeking out a chance to have sex to relieve the heat and lust. This energy is for your goal.

4. Desire tolerance. Most guys masturbate at some time. It starts early in life and they do it furtively when we are in their teens. They don't want to be caught, so it ends up being a rapid thing. It's a race to the 'finish' line. This teaches guys to rush towards the end of lust, where you ejaculate and the lust ends (until it builds up again). With goals, a lot of people come to realize that the real pleasure of a goal is in the working towards it, more so than it's achievement. A lot of people report feeling flat after a goal is achieved, whereas they felt excited when they were working towards it. Sounds a lot like sex, doesn't it? Well, just as we are told to enjoy the process of working towards a goal, we can also learn to enjoy and get great pleasure from FEELING DESIRE. Most of us are keyed up to the idea of sexual pleasure coming from ejaculation. What we want to do is retrain our minds to recognize that there is longer lasting pleasure in being horny and feeling desire for someone. Desire fires up (turns on) our minds and bodies. Ejaculation switches the mind and body off for a while (we need to rest afterwards).

Part of sex transmutation then is to re-jig our priorities and get pleasure from being in a state of desire and from the state of mind that it puts us in. We can delight in our heightened abilities to be creative, productive, funny or insightful.

Okay, I have got to go now Brian. I hope this has given you some additional thoughts on the subject. I am not sure that I have been any clearer than any of the 'disconnects' you refer to out there on the web. It is a complex subject and hard to objectify and make scientific, but definitely worthy of personal experimentation.

Warmest Regards,
Wily

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