PLEASURE OR PAIN

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 "The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you, if you do that, you are in control of life, if you don't, life controls you" 

                  ANTHONY ROBBINS.

Pleasure is a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but people desire to experience. Pain is emotional distress, a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.

How do you use pain or pleasure? We know beyond doubt that pain and pleasure has a firm grip on the decisions we make, it's even like the first force that drives our decisions. This pain or pleasure either work for us or against us and to think that we are in control of how it works for us, amazing right?

Let's start with pain or pleasure and our HABITS. Any habit we've come to love so much and derive pleasure in can be stopped in an instant by consciously linking pain to it. For example, The Use of Hard Drugs, the effect can be so thrilling and full of pleasure but the moment it drives a friend or family insane, we link pain to them and stop taking them. What I'm saying in essence is "you can change bad habits by linking pain them and in turn acquire great habits by linking pleasure to them".

Then there's pain or pleasure and our BEHAVIORAL PATTERN. There are people that have linked so much pleasure to helping others and people that have linked so much pleasure to hurting, more reason we have people that can give their life to save others and those that would go to any extent to hurt them.

Pain or pleasure can certainly be used to change a lot of things but sometimes we link both pleasure and pain to one situation and let the one with the highest force drive us. For example an abusive relationship; you don't like the fact that your partner abuses but at the same time he/she is ever caring and sweet sometimes or you've linked pain to the idea of change. Now it's left to the one with the highest force, the one that hits your emotional threshold first and your WILL.

Also, we have the short-term pain long term pleasure and vice versa phenomenon. We do things sometimes for quick pleasure and we know that it's pain or causes pain in the long term and sometimes it's short term pain for a long term pleasure like the pain of saving to invest instead of buying that trending bag or slide. 

I don't know what you do now for pleasure that can affect you in the long run but you know it and you can change it. Link great pleasure to being happy, full of life, radiating and receiving love, and being a very successful person.

And never forget that I love you. Thank you for reading and sharing. XOXO


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