Pain and pleasure
by Parker · 12 things on Twos
- You can decide what gives you pain and pleasure
- Outside of physical pain and pleasure, it is up to you
- You can tell yourself you experience pleasure when you eat pizza or when you eat a salad
- You can tell yourself hanging out with a crowd is painful or your favorite activity
- We are lucky to live in a world where so much of our pain and pleasure is a product of our own thinking
- It gives us so much power to affect and change our lives
- You can choose to be happy or satisfied with what you do
- You can also decide to associate pain with activities you wish to do less of causing yourself to subconsciously do them less
- Its a very beneficial connection
- Lately I’ve told myself that what makes me happy is eating healthy and exercising. I want to eat salads and I want to go to the gym everyday. This was a conscious decision I made and now I don’t subconsciously reach for the dessert as often
- We decide what gives us pain and pleasure
- What will you decide?