The Pleasure Cure

This is a great video that will give you a different perspective on life.  Watch it!

Small Pleasures

The body releases endorphins (natural highs) when you:

• eat chocolate
• exercise
• laugh
• orgasm
• get moved to tears
• think positive thoughts
• sunbathe
• eat a chili pepper
• get scared.

Pleasure is a necessary for a healthy and happy life. Without pleasure we get physically and mentally sick. Many mental health issues are due to a lack of pleasure in life (depression, schizophrenia, addiction, anxiety). We are not taught to value pleasure. We are taught instead that pleasure is dangerous and may lead to vice. This site is a work in progress as I develop a therapy of pleasure. I know that engaging in pleasure is healing. I know that adding pleasure to your life will increase your well being or happiness. In my 6 week program, I will provide you with the tools with which to incorporate pleasure into your life in a therapeutic way.

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If you haven’t thought about it, it would benefit you to start thinking about what gives you pleasure.  Research has shown that not only does pleasure heed off emotional illness, it also contributes to development.  Sensory experience is a stimulus to human development.  Our sense of touch, smell, taste, vision, and touch helps us to develop in a healthy manner.  ”When humans are stimulated through taste or smell, large portions of the brain become activated.”

Here are some common items that should be considered when developing your hedonic palate:

• Sleeping Naked
• Making Eye Contact
• Skinny Dipping
• Road Trips
• Fresh Clean Sheets
• After Work Out Endorphin Rush
• Sunbathing
• Running or Walking in the Rain
• A fire
• Calling in Sick to Work
• Flowers
• Food
• Singing
• A new magazine
• The Ocean
• Lipgloss
• Driving with the windows down
• A funny movie
• A Quiet Morning
• Water
• Color
• Perfume
• Light
• Walking Barefoot on the Grass
• Breeze

Mindfulness, or increasing awareness, of what you are feeling or doing in the moment, evokes “emotions, meaning, and memory.”  The idea behind mindfulness is that when you turn attention to the moment, you tuned out all the noise that distracts us.  Everything happens in slow motion.  Some happiness therapists say that happiness can happen now; that happiness is not something we need to wait for.  The same rules would apply to pleasure.  In order to feel the full experience of pleasure it helps to be mindful of the moment.  Pleasure can happen now, if we make a commitment to the experience of it, without the noise of what we did in the past, what we will do in the future, or what we should be doing now.

At times we are overwhelmed with defenses when facing a pleasurable experience.  These defenses are often felt in the body.  Our bodies tense up.  These are ways to manage the emotion that is brought on by the experience or the expectation of the experience.  Our minds also contribute to the defenses we put up by stating things like, ‘you are not worthy”, “you can never do anything right” “you should be someone else”.  Using mindfulness techniques will help let go of these defenses in order to engage in pleasure to its full potential.  ”If you’re mindful, sensitive, and quiet, if your mind is open and simply noticing” the moment can elicit quite a deep experience.

An important component of these workshops is to increase mindfulness in order to allow for the full expression of pleasure.

References

Caldwell, C. (1997).  Getting in Touch:  The Guide to New Body-Centered Therapies.  IL:  Quest Books.

Holden, R. (1998).  Happiness Now!  Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast.  UK:  Hay House.

El placer es necesario para una vida sana y feliz. Sin el placer nos enfermamos físicamente y mentalmente. Muchos problemas emocionales están debido a una falta del placer en la vida (depresión, la esquizofrenia, el vicio, la ansiedad). La sociedad no nos enseñan a valorar el placer, sino aprendemos que el placer es peligroso y puede llevar a vicio.

Este taller esta basado en investigaciones que afirman que el placer es necesario y puede aliviar problemas emocionales. Entiendo que aumentando el placer en la vida resulta en una vida mas feliz.

En este programa de 6 semanas, usted obtendra los instrumentos con que integrar el placer en su vida en una manera terapéutica.

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Haim Lopez Penha con Federico Geraldino

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Aprende como obtener daily felicidad y fullfillment

El placer es necesario para una vida sana y feliz. Sin el placer nos enfermamos físicamente y mentalmente. Muchos problemas emocionales están debido a una falta del placer en la vida (depresión, la esquizofrenia, el vicio, la ansiedad).   El placer se obtiene por medio de los cinco sentidos.  La terapia del placer se basa en psychologia positiva y psychologia de felicidad y enfoca el uso de los cinco sentidos.  La terapia del placer consiste en aplicar tecnicas que definen lo que le da placer a cada individuo y como sobresaltar estas cosas.  Se comienza con una investigacion de las creencias y practicas en cuanto al placer y la felicidad.  Se continua con definir cuales son los momentos, objetos, y personas que nos dan placer.  Luego se indican ejercisios pare aumentar el placer y la felicidad.

La Terapia del placer ofrece lo ultimo y mejor de las investigaciones sobre la felicidad y placer y lo combina con tecnicas holisticas que incluyen mindfulness, aromatherapy, music therapy, color therapy, positive psychology, terapia de energia.

Los talleres de Terapia de Placer duran 5 semanas.  Este taller lo ayudara a embarcar en un proceso de desarrollo personal que integra el placer en su vida.  Este curso lo ayudara a definir que es la felicidad y como encontrar alegria en su vida.

Resumen de Taller

Workshop Overview

• Identificar placeres en su vida
• Identificar strengths personales y aprender a usar estos strengths
• Identificar definicion de felicidad y placer en su vida
• Identificar obstaculos para obtener felicidad incluyendo self-judgement
• Identificar el uso de los cinco sentidos en su vida para crear mas placer y felicidad
• Escribir su Plan de Accion para la felicidad
• Ejercisios en el taller y en la casa para promover la applicacion y la investigacion de la felicidad y el placer en su vida
• Definir lista de maneras para manejar momentos de duda
• Incrementar experiencias de Flow