PLEASURE
Reasons for Distrusting Pleasure:
- It's selfish: I'm depriving others.
- It's dangerous: things will get out of control, someone will get hurt.
- It's a set up: I get my hopes up and then I get let down.
Ways of Avoiding Pleasure:
- Criticize it: look at what's wrong with it.
- Live in the future: someday wonderful things will happen for me.
- Live in the past: I lost it all way back then.
- Worry about losing it: you can't lose what you don't got.
- Wait for the really big deal: and miss all the wonderful little moments.
- Always keep struggling: isn't that how life really is?
SATISFACTION
LET IT IN: receptive welcoming of pleasure
- Ease: carefree openness to the moment
- Hope: pleasure in remembering the past & anticipating the future
- Admiration: seeing in another what I would like to be
- Respect: appreciating the strength in another as an equal
- Amazement: being creatively inspired by something or someone
- Gratitude: heartfelt honoring of another's gift
- Peace: a deep inner security and sense of wellbeing
EXCITEMENT
GO WITH IT: expressive engagement in pleasure
- Delight: enthusiastic involvement in the moment
- Desire: the pleasure in reaching out to make contact
- Confidence: a sense of strength when what I want is happening
- Generosity: sharing with another from one's own abundance
- Fulfillment: the enjoyment in the realization of a cherished dream
- Affection: the open expression of loving warmth toward another
- Joy: the deep, abiding fullness of life that overflows to others
Why not embrace all that life has to offer YOU ! ? !
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