Pleasure As A Need And Other Ways We Make Our Lives Terrible Through Not Understanding Ourselves

Hello Friend!

We live in a culture that has a pretty messed up relationship with pleasure.

What most of us think of as pleasurable activities have a degree of self destruction to them, leading us to feel like pleasure is something that contains inherent pain.

For many of us, pleasure has been positioned as something shameful.

Many of us feel like pleasure for the sake of pleasure is laziness, self indulgence and otherwise something we need to stay away from.

For some of us, we're ok with the idea of pleasure being something we should have in our lives - but we only feel comfortable with the forms of pleasure that are also in some way creative, productive, personal growth orientated or that come from resting and relaxing in some sort of spiritual or self care way. We will allow pleasure only in ways that look or feel like they are moving us forward.

Some of us believe that in this life, if we're 'really' doing it right, we will be spending MOST of our time in creative self expression/self exploration/personal growth and the other part of our time in rest, recovery, introspection and processing. That the two poles of our lives should be disciplined rest and expression.

Thus, when we find ourselves addicted to our social media apps, watching hours of Netflix, continually trapped in patterns of drama in our relationships/finances/bodies - we start to think that the answer is MORE discipline, more self introspection, more creativity, more service - and then the harder we drive ourselves to do these things, the more we lose ourselves in the habits we were trying to break. We find that the more we try to transcend our guilty behaviors, our addictions, our coping mechanisms and those things that seem self sabotaging, the more they seem to have power over us.

Today let's break down what's going on in our 'addictions' to harmful pleasure, let's explore why there's a difference between creativity, self expression, rest and true pleasure, and why pleasure for pleasure's sake is a NEED that we MUST fill. Let's talk about what leads us to engaging in pleasurable activities that cause harm, and how we can renegotiate our relationship to pleasure to allow for a more comfortable, balanced life.

Knowing Better Video Mentioned

Exciting news!

If this content resonates with you - you may be interested in taking your self love journey even deeper through The Aliyah Mystery School.

This is the place where I've completed all my tools and techniques for connecting you with your body, your true nature, your emotions and your most aligned intellect so that you can support yourself in creating a life that actually works for YOU.

The school is all about supporting you in coming out of the programming that tells you that you have to ‘fix’ yourself so that you can see that you’ve never been broken. All you’ve ever needed is understanding and support so that you can become all that you’re capable of becoming.

This month I’m adding a fourth curriculum to the school - and this curriculum is taking all the self love tools in the first three programs and taking them to their most radical end point.

I’d love to have you in the community if this work is serving you.

Check It Out Here!

Pleasure As A Need And Other Ways We Make Our Lives Terrible Through Not Understanding Ourselves

Society Controls Us Through FORCE And Violence

Author perceptiontrainers