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PLEASURE and FUN!! FUN and PLEASURE!! It’s why you’ve chosen to be here, embodied in this sensory time and space dimension - to experience through your senses. Think of a child, they come into this world completely desirous of what feels good and they pursue pleasure in everything. They approach life with curiosity and wonder and are completely in the moment.

We deeply desire pleasure and naturally seek it out- yet we resist it as if it is a weakness and judge ourselves for having desires. This causes all kinds of suffering and rebound effect. Yet pleasure is biologically imperative for us as a species to have evolved. Therefore it is detrimental to consider it wrong or feel guilty about it.

Everything we do is motivated by the expectation of the reward or the avoidance of pain since it meant our species survival. Even apparently selfless and self-sacrificing behaviours and actions have inherent payoffs of a reward for the “sacrificer”. If we know that this is the human-beings true motivation and it is evolutionarily necessary we can accept that WE BIOLOGICALLY NEED PLEASURE! We can give ourselves permission to desire again.

Pleasure-seeking is neither about self-absorption or hedonistic narcissism. It is about finding the balance between the two types of pleasures that make a complete picture of purpose, meaning and enjoying the embodiment you GET to experience!

A balance must be struck on a scale of the pleasure derived from purpose (worthwhile, meaningful, fulfilling) and pleasure from the sensual/experiential (joyful, content, excited).

Each of us has an internal pleasure-purpose scale that we must balance in order to optimize our happiness. Find that sweet spot for you, and you will be most content with life.

When you are fulfilled, happy and purposeful you radiate and can't help but bless those around you, inspiring them to do the same. That is your greatest service to the world. There is no amount of suffering you can do to remove someone else’s suffering. But you can live as an invitation to a greater possibility by enjoying your life to the fullest.

Humans are “meaning-making machines”. We are always assigning meaning to our experiences, our thoughts and our feelings. In understanding that nothing has meaning except for the meaning you assign it, you can choose the meaning, purpose and therefore, pleasure based on your personal choice of how to perceive any situation. How you choose to assign anything its meaning is up to you!

When we feel meaningful, we are filled with joy from purpose. Add to that the act of mindfulness and you have a beautiful recipe for a LIFE FULL OF PLEASURE!

Meaning + Mindfulness= Pleasure!