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The Pain-Pleasure Principle
"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure
instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're
in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you."
– Tony Robbins
Monitor Your Feelings. All entities, from single-celled amoebae
up to complex human beings, have a natural inclination to seek pleasure
and avoid pain. This Pain-Pleasure Principle is the chief motivating
factor in behavior. Whatever we are doing, we are doing it because
we believe it will make us feel better. We are pleasure-seeking,
relief-seeking beings, consciously or unconsciously trying to strengthen
our connection with Source Energy. Regardless of how misguided
we may view some of the ways people seek pleasure, it is still the
motivation behind every action ever taken by human beings.
Your Emotional Guidance System lets you know if you’re directing
your life toward pain or toward pleasure. Like a smoke detector
beeping to warn you that its batteries are low, negative emotion
from your Emotional Guidance System is an indication that your connection
to Source Energy is weak, that you’re headed away from pleasure
and toward pain. Your Emotional Guidance System is ever-vigilant
to inform you when your Thought-Feelings are not serving you. Negative
emotion is a warning that redirection is in order – that you’re
headed toward something you do not want. A thought of something
you do not want brings forth negative emotion and negative emotion
warns you that the thoughts you are choosing are not in harmony
with Well-Being.
Instead of worrying about every idle thought that comes to mind,
all you really need to do is notice how you feel. Then, by virtue
of the Pain-Pleasure Principle, you will instinctively nurture thoughts
that are pleasurable and avoid thoughts that are painful. Feeling
good means you’re on track to happiness. Feeling bad means
you’re headed toward unhappiness.
Strengthen the Connection. The smoke detector doesn’t
ask itself “What’s wrong?” when it starts beeping.
It doesn’t take drugs to numb itself against the message.
It doesn’t find other beeping smoke detectors to commiserate
with. The answer for the smoke detector as well as for us is simple
– Strengthen the Connection! Discomfort is an indication
of a weakened connection to Source. The question is not –
“What’s wrong with me?” The question is –
“What’s the best way for me to feel better right here
right now?”
As the physical extension of Source, your natural state is pure
high vibrational Joy. When you’re connected to Source, you’re
Whole – the physical You and the non-physical You are joined
in the Dance of Life. When you’re fully aligned with and connected
to Source, you feel love, joy, freedom, empowerment. You’re
tuned in, tapped in, turned on! Negative emotion is an internal
message alerting you that you’re out of alignment with Source
– that you’re saying No to the Joy of Life. Trust
your feelings. They’re offering you guidance to help you get
back to your essence, to reconnect with Well-Being, to feel pleasure
and avoid pain!
Kate Corbin is a Law of Attraction Life Coach and
the creator of Gold Star Coaching. Both her coaching practice and
her books - Dining at the Cosmic Café: How to Be and Do and
Have Whatever You Desire as well as Think and Grow Thin with the
Law of Attraction - http://www.goldstarcoaching.com/ebook.html
are designed to empower you to truly live the life of your dreams.
To contact Coach Kate, check out her books, and subscribe to her
free ezine, Magical Musings, visit http://www.goldstarcoaching.com/
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