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happiness

5 Ways to Express Your Gratitude to Your Dominant

5 Ways to Express Your Gratitude to Your Dominant

By lunaKM on November 13, 2009

With Thanksgiving (USA) just around the corner I thought it would be fitting to write about gratitude, and how to express your gratitude to the one you serve. Sure you can say thank you. That’s standard. I really hope you take every opportunity to say thank  you, but what if you want a few more [...]

Posted in Relationships, Rituals and Routines | Tagged bath, being thankful, development, Dom, Dominance, dominant, dynamic, focus, gratitude, happiness, help, kneeling, love, normal, online, play, relationship, Relationships, requests, ritual, rituals, rt, rules, Service, setting the table, sex, share, showing appreciation, skills, stress, submission, thanksgiving | 1 Response

Am I Submissive?

Am I Submissive?

By lunaKM on November 4, 2009

So, you want me to tell you how you can tell if you are submissive or not? Asking someone else if you are submissive is like asking a blind man what color your dress is. Is there some magical online quiz that can say whether you are submissive or slave? Unfortunately no and I don’t [...]

Posted in Submission | Tagged book, choice, choices, community, connection, control, Dom, Dominance, dominant, dress, experience, happiness, help, inclination, learned, learning, Mindset, natural, online, personal choices, poses, prayer, questions, relationship, religion, ritual, rt, Service, serving, sex, slave, spirit, spiritual, standing, stimulus, submission, submissive, trust, understanding | 2 Responses

The Disposable Relationship Mentality

The Disposable Relationship Mentality

By lunaKM on October 26, 2009

I’ve been witness to a shocking new trend in relationships lately. Perhaps I’m old school or old fashioned but what I’m seeing in today’s society, and not just the BDSM culture, is the lack of effort in relationships. As I was raised I was taught that something worthwhile wasn’t always easy to achieve and you [...]

Posted in Relationships | Tagged advice, BDSM, begging, communication, cons, disposable, disposable relationship mentality, disposable relationships, experience, family, happiness, love, marriage, online, questions, recommendations, relationship, Relationships, ritual, rt, spirit, spiritual, standing, understanding | 5 Responses

When Protocol Becomes Boring

When Protocol Becomes Boring

By lunaKM on October 21, 2009

Protocol. It can be a scary word if you are new to submission. In a relationship, it is likely that you will have some protocol established to control your behavior. So, what is protocol? Simply defined, protocol is the set of special rules that you follow for defined situations that remind you of your place [...]

Posted in Rituals and Routines | Tagged BDSM, bdsm fiction, book, books, communication, cons, control, Dom, dominant, essays, etiquette, event, experience, fantasy, focus, happiness, help, learned, leather, lifestyle, m/s, meditation, Mindset, normal, online, play, progress, protocol, RACK, relationship, review, ritual, routine, rt, rules, scene, sensuous, sex, stress, submission | 2 Responses

The Many Layers of Sub Space

By lunaKM on October 17, 2009

This week’s video post is about sub space. When you first heard about sub space it was probably something that you either thought you’d never experience or something that seemed so strange and foreign that you believed it to be a myth. Then you heard the stories and could swear that people were on drugs [...]

Posted in Playtime, Video Posts | Tagged connection, Dom, dominant, emotions, endorphins, experience, focus, happiness, information, love, masochist, play, prayer, rt, Service, slave, spirit, sub space, submission, subspace, trust, value | 3 Responses

Living as an Emotionally Healthy Submissive

Living as an Emotionally Healthy Submissive

By lunaKM on October 14, 2009

Being an emotionally healthy person is a goal that all of us have but a smaller margin actually accomplish. With the constant stress of commitments and modern day obligations our emotions face the brunt of it. The goal of a submissive is to seek that balance in emotional states so that our service appears stress-free [...]

Posted in Health and Beauty | Tagged balance, comfort, commitment, cons, control, desires, emotional health, emotional state, emotions, friends, friendships, happiness, health, healthy submissive, help, Impact, memories, mental strength, needs, online, relationship, Relationships, rt, Service, stress, submissive, suggestions | 1 Response

Chat Night Transcript From Sub Space and Sub Drop Talk

By lunaKM on September 24, 2009

<~luna[KM]> Now I’d like to hear from everyone… have you experienced subspace? If you don’t know if you have, it’s okay. <selene1123> i’m pretty new…so i think i have but am not sure <slavelauren> i have <radiogirl> I most definitely have <pet_rain> i’m not sure  i think i would like a clear definition i’v heard [...]

Posted in Views & More... | Tagged 24/7, aftercare, balance, bath, chat, chat night, comfort, communication, connection, cons, definitions, Dom, Dominance, dress, email, emotional state, emotions, endorphins, experience, focus, happiness, healing, help, limits, love, munch, normal, play, PMS, relationship, Relationships, ritual, rt, safe, safewords, scene, separation, serving, share, shower, slave, sorry, spirit, spiritual, stress, Study, sub drop, sub space, submissive chat, subspace, tall, transcript, writing | 1 Response

Finding Your Spirituality In Service

Finding Your Spirituality In Service

By lunaKM on March 20, 2009

A recent journal prompt I came across really inspired me to write about it.  It is spirituality. A lot of what I hear about spirituality is related to religion, but BDSM can be spiritual too and I’d like to explore that with you. What is the relationship between spirituality and religion? Is BDSM spiritual? –Submissive [...]

Posted in Mindset, Service, Spirituality | Tagged acceptance, bath, bathing, BDSM, connection, Dom, dominant, energy, experience, focus, grace, happiness, help, how-to, inner peace, journey, kinky, learning, lifestyle, m/s, mantra, mediation, orgasms, play, purpose, relationship, religion, ritual, rt, sensuous, Service, serving, sex, share, skills, spirit, spiritual, structure, submission, submissive, tips, trust, twitter, worship | 5 Responses

The Importance of Rules

The Importance of Rules

By lunaKM on March 2, 2009

Rules, instructions and assignments are things that are given to me by my Dominant for very important reasons. To follow them should bring me the pride and happiness that I feel for him, and remind me that he cares for me. Rules are in place to keep me in line, place my heart and mind [...]

Posted in Mindset, Relationships, Rituals and Routines | Tagged activities, Bondage, checklist, comfort, commitment, cons, control, development, Dom, dominant, fulfillment, happiness, help, love, Mindset, owned, pride, punishment, purpose, relationship, Relationships, rt, rules, submission, submissive, tasks, trust, wants | 7 Responses

Balancing Depression and Submission

Balancing Depression and Submission

By lunaKM on February 26, 2009

Everyone has gone though bouts of depression at one time or another. For some, it’s practically debilitating and others can handle it in stride without much of a bat of the eyelashes. I recently recovered from a long time depression with the help of medications and my Dominant’s caring. It’s never an easy process, but [...]

Posted in Health and Beauty, Mindset | Tagged balance, bath, bathing, comfort, depression, Dom, dominant, dress, friends, handling a submissive with depression, happiness, health, help, normal, play, routine, rt, rules, sadness, self-care, short, standing, submission, submissive, understanding | 3 Responses

What Should You Do When Your Wants or Needs Aren’t Met?

What Should You Do When Your Wants or Needs Aren’t Met?

By lunaKM on February 13, 2009

To conclude this series on wants and needs I’d like to talk about what to do when you needs and wants are not being met.  We’ve already discussed how important the fulfillment of needs are to your relationship and also what your desires are. You can also review how to express your wants and needs [...]

Posted in BDSM Basics, Service | Tagged changing, D/s, decisions, desires, event, fulfillment, happiness, help, learned, needs, RACK, relationship, Relationships, review, rt, series, submissive, wants | Leave a response

Expressions of Wants and Needs

Expressions of Wants and Needs

By lunaKM on January 12, 2009

In the previous post about Wants and Needs we began to understand the importance of Needs for ourselves and our relationship. If you would like to go back and read The Importance of Needs to review, please do so. In this post I’d like to talk about how to express your wants and needs with [...]

Posted in BDSM Basics, Relationships | Tagged communication, compatibility, cons, developing relationships, expressing needs, fulfillment, future plans, happiness, importance of needs, information, interview, love, needs, partners, relationship, review, rt, serving, share, short, submissive, wants | 2 Responses

Importance of Needs

Importance of Needs

By lunaKM on January 7, 2009

In the previous post about wants and needs you made a list of your wants and a list of your needs so that you had them defined for your training resume. In this essay I will share why needs are so important to your overall health and happiness in a relationship and why settling for [...]

Posted in Submission, Training Resume | Tagged abuse, balance, clean, clothing, comfort, communication, compatibility, cons, control, D/s, depression, development, discussion, Dom, dominant, event, experience, friends, friendships, happiness, health, help, honesty, Impact, importance of needs, love, needs, openness, power exchange, relationship, Relationships, resume, rt, sadness, safe, Safety, security, share, stress, submission, submissive, training, Training Resume, trust, wants | 1 Response

Distinguishing Between Wants and Needs

Distinguishing Between Wants and Needs

By lunaKM on December 24, 2008

Continuing the Wants and Needs Series, this essay is about knowing the difference between wants and needs. If you would like to read the previous essay, please read “Know What You Want, Learn What You Need.” The difference between wants and needs can be answered in one basic question. Is this something you can live [...]

Posted in BDSM Basics, Submission | Tagged balance, basics, clothing, D/s, desires, discipline, happiness, love, needs, personal development, relationship, Relationships, resume, rt, rules, series, share, structure, submission, submissive, training, Training Resume, wants | Leave a response

The Meaning Behind Service and Serving

The Meaning Behind Service and Serving

By lunaKM on December 22, 2008

When someone becomes a submissive for the first time and finds a dominant the first words I generally hear them say is that they like being of service or they like serving. When asked what it is about service that they enjoy it tends to boil down to sex and play. There is far more [...]

Posted in Service | Tagged activities, Aria, bath, bathing, book, chat, clean, cleaning, connection, control, Dom, Domestics, dominant, dominant partner, email, event, family, fantasy, fulfillment, grooming, happiness, health, help, masochist, needs, obedience, opinion, organization, pets, play, purpose, relationship, Relationships, resume, rt, series, Service, serving, sex, share, shaving, skills, standing, structure, submission, submissive, tasks, understanding, wants | Leave a response

Know What You Want, Learn What You Need

Know What You Want, Learn What You Need

By lunaKM on December 21, 2008

Wants and needs are very important to any relationship. When you start to understand who you are as a submissive, it’s time to figure out what you are looking for in a relationship. Submissives all over seem to know what they want out of a relationship; it’s always present in their minds. The play, the [...]

Posted in Training Resume | Tagged basics, book, changing, comfort, communication, control, desires, Dom, Dominance, essays, happiness, love, needs, personal development, play, relationship, review, rt, series, sex, share, submission, submissive, wants | 2 Responses

Discovering Your Submissive Nature

Discovering Your Submissive Nature

By lunaKM on December 20, 2008

Discovering your submissive nature isn’t always a sudden process. For many people it takes some soul searching to see that you may enjoy being a people-pleaser or that when someone asks you to do something you happily do it without a second thought. For others it takes some social reprogramming to allow your full nature [...]

Posted in Mindset, Submission | Tagged abuse, acceptance, activities, amazon.com, bottom, choice, cons, defining moment, discovery, discussion, Dom, dominant, event, experience, focus, fulfillment, happiness, help, inner peace, learned, learning, lifestyle, love, masochist, Miss Abernathy, natural, nurtured, online, organization, owned, personal safety, pride, progress, purpose, relationship, roles, rt, safe, Safety, Service, serving, short, slave, slave training, Study, submission, submissive, training, value, writing | 7 Responses

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