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Is Pleasure a Reward?

3/9/2020

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Last year I developed a model to describe the environment of fear based learning compared to that of love based learning and articulated how many of us are ready to graduate from fear based learning, and learn lessons in the field and frequency of love.  For the background on this you can read my blog: Is it Time to Graduate from Fear Based Learning?  As a quick summary here, fear based learning is based on the model of punishment and reward.  The common source of motivation is to move away from pain and punishment and towards pleasure and rewards.  Embedded in this model are assessments of good vs bad, right vs wrong, good enough vs not good enough, worthy vs not worthy, deserving vs not deserving and notions of working hard enough to earn the rewards, and avoid the punishments.  Pleasure is poised as a hoped for reward if enough of the conditions are met.  

With pleasure as a reward it implies that you've done something good or right in order to be earn it, be worthy of it, deserve it or be good enough for it.  If you asses that you haven't met these conditions you will consciously or subconsciously reject it.  If it comes to you, through various forms, and you believe that you haven't "done enough" it may lead you to fear that you'll have to pay, or that you'll have to do something right or good in the future, which can lead to the notion that it's just not worth it.  This imprinting or understanding of how things work can lead people to keep pleasure at bay or even fear it's arrival.  In other words, if life starts getting "too good" something has to happen to "bring you back to reality."  What if right now as your reading this you can spontaneously lay down this model and choose with your free will to learn the lessons of love?

Both pleasure and pain can be felt, sensed, known and experienced in a new context.  In the wider context of love based learning, you can start where you are, lifting out the burden of inherited impressions of how life is and get to experience it directly, spontaneously and first hand.  You can become curious about when and how joy and pleasure show up in your life.  You can initiate a new dance with life that invites playfulness, lightness, and fun.  Both pleasure and pain can be teachers and so can the responses that arise within you to these experiences.  I welcome you into this field and frequency of love!  Thank you for reading this.  Stay tuned for new content that illuminates, invites and encourages love to awaken in pleasure and pain and transform itself into total joy!
 



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