How pain & pleasure has shaped our society

One of the things that struck me with what Anthony Robbins had mentioned in one of his earlier books is how we associate between pain and pleasures and shaped our lives based on those pain and pleasures. What he is trying to teach us is how to let our emotions become a tool instead of letting us become a tool of our emotions. Then he went on to say that society has always looked for quick fix solutions to their inconveniences and that majority would avoid any kind of pain to their solution over pleasure.

For example, if you wanted lo lose weight you would have to go through dieting and avoid your favourite foods, and put yourself to go through the gym consistently a few times each week. Immediately, the individual would put off the pain and resort back to their pleasures of eating and not having to go through exercise. This is a preconditioned thinking that the body recognises and straights away take action of pleasure over pain. When you are constantly putting off your short term pains over pleasures you are limiting your potential and possible causing harm to yourself in the long term.

The solution is to trick your body into thinking that the benfits of a long term pleasure are BETTER than the short term ones, and that the short term pains are also pleasures in itself. That is why athletes go to the gym and stay consistent with their workouts, as they derive PLEASURE from their short term pain as it will pay off as PLEASURE in the long term.

Do not shy away from pain. Do not shy away from risks. When you think about it, you associate too much pain with so many things that you could have done, that you are limiting your beliefs and growth potential. It paralyses you. Not the pain itself. But by the references we take the pain from off others as we grow up that we come to a point that we become too overprotected and insecure. Condition yourself to take risks. Condition yourself to take pain in place of long term pleasures and rewards, comrades!

When you can finally morph your PAIN into PLEASURES, you take destiny into your own hands! This is not oversimplification. Our brain cannot differentiate reality from beliefs. So work on those beliefs mechanism to make them FOR YOU not to LIMIT you!

Take it to your playground, savvy?