If you find yourself doing the same thing over and over, without variety, whether it’s staying late at work, getting angry in traffic, watching TV, surfing the internet (on whatever your favourite site is at the moment), then you need to STOP!
You see being furry little animals we like the little things that give us pleasure to continue to give us pleasure.
Sometimes this is called an addiction.
You see, it’s easy to get addicted to anything, getting addicted to being stressed, or anxiety, or moody, or exercise, or food, going out and getting drunk, staying home and doing nothing, etc… etc… it’s easy to get addicted to the emotions we feel, the thoughts we think and the stuff we do.
And it’s all because we get pleasure from doing all these things, yes we even get pleasure from things that aren’t good for us.
We feel stress and we release adrenalin into our bloodstream and over time we become addicted to it, and we create situations in our lives that create more stress and more adrenalin. But it’s not just stress, there are millions of combinations of ‘class A’ drugs running around in your body that you could get addicted to and that we ultimately get pleasure from.
In fact much of who you think you are i.e. your ‘personality’ is probably just a long series of different internal drug addictions you have and that you continue to feed.
Your life; just an extension of your addictive need to feed your habit.
Your lifestyle just a way of making sure you get your fix.
How can you tell an addict from a healthy human being?
Simply, an addict only gets real pleasure from a small and limited number of places.
So that could be food, alcohol, gambling, sex, shopping, sugar, drugs, the internet, Playstation, power, smoking, exercise, pornography, money, caffeine, junk food, stress, bad relationships… the list goes on, but it’s usually either exclusively or from a very limited number of these or other vices.
But also that pleasure makes you feel bad, sad or guilty for feeling it.
But the problem is not that we get pleasure from things, but that we limit the sources of our pleasure.
Anyways you bunch of drug addicts – yes you are a drug addict! (don’t you know that denial is the first sign of an addiction?) - there is help.
Increase and vary the number of places that you get pleasure from.
You might want to start with focusing on your five/six senses and on a Sunday focus your attention and get pleasure from your sense of smell, Monday could be sound, Tuesday touch, Wednesday sight, Thursday taste, Friday balance, Saturday all of the above.
Or you could start changing things – like instead of continuing to look at this website – you might turn your computer off and clean your house, or go for a walk, or speak to a friend, or anything that is completely different to what you might have been planning, left to your own devises.
Go on then, why are you still reading this gibberish? Go on get out of here! HAVE FUN!
This post was written by Urban Guru on July 11, 2007
