Pleasure/Leisure/Joy
Pleasure is:
- Fleeting raw feelings
- Experienced through the senses and emotions
- Often brought on by physical, social, or environmental factors
- Is in the moment, is now
- Is easy
Cultivating Pleasure
Pleasure pitfall: It habituates easily.
- You can avoid habituation by spreading out the instances of pleasure in your life so that you experience them more intensely.
- You can enhance your experience of pleasure by savoring it.
- Attention to the present (not thinking about the future)
- Conscious focus
- Sharpening perceptions
- Absorption
- Sharing
- Memory-building
- Mindfulness is a careful observation of the present in a slow state of mind.
- Slow down
- Sense your surroundings
- Meditate
Pleasures List
Circle the activities that you would like to engage in more or for the first time and add goals for incorporating these activities into your life.
| Pedicure | Movies | |
| Go to the Plays | Walk | |
| Hike | Spend time with family | |
| Spend time with friends | Lunch with friends | |
| Shop | Sit in the backyard | |
| Watch the 3 Stooges | Watch “I Love Lucy” | |
| Listen to old radio shows | Be spontaneous | |
| Rearrange a room | Try a new recipe | |
| Listen to the birds | Bird watching | |
| Looking at my landscape | Sit in the sunroom in the morning and look at the flowers | |
| Taking a long shower | Being around creative people with new ideas | |
| Skiing | Being outside | |
| Golf | Knitting | |
| Biking | Watching birds or animals | |
| Take naps | Get hair done | |
| Read | Massage | |
| Rent a hotel room somewhere for a short trip | Visit Museums
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| Go to Borders Bookstore | Look at catalogs | |
| See Authors speak | Go to Pasadena | |
| Travel | Amusement park rides | |
| Fairs | Pig races | |
| Reconnect with long lost family and friends | Zoo | |
| Go to car shows | Watch old “Saturday Night Live” Shows | |
| Go to Musical Comedies | Go to Hermosa Beach, Venice, Santa Monica | |
| Watch sports in person or on television | Play sports | |
| Read the paper | Play poker with friends | |
| Go to the horse races | Read “People” magazine | |
Pleasure List
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