tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56192836917049801132012-02-03T08:00:53.610-05:00"...we need to get used to feeling pleasure without having to earn it, be happy without needing a reason because pleasure is free and nothing nor anyone can oppose our enjoyment apart from our own self."SylStarnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619283691704980113.post-13034115894868051342006-12-22T17:35:00.000-05:002007-01-03T11:00:49.891-05:00

The pleasurometer, will give you an objective assessment of the state of pleasure and displeasure in various areas of your life. The 60 statements are designed to evaluate four aspects of your life where you are most likely to feel satisfied or frustrated. To get maximum benefit from this questionnaire, it is important to be honest and spontaneous. It is no use thinking too long about each

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Anxiety is the first reaction following learned helplessness and its consequent inhibition. We feel anxious when faced with a situation where our well being is threatened. It can be defined as any real or imaginary fear of losing what gives us pleasure or of suffering or simply of being denied pleasure. How a man feels when his job is threatened is an example, or how a woman might feel worrying

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As its name suggests, direct pleasure is a sensation of well being felt directly from and immediately after a stimulation, a thought or an action. Thus experiencing sexual pleasure, enjoying a delicious meal, appreciating music, crying with joy at a reunion, being bowled over by a work of art, bursting with joy from exchanging a look with a loved one and feeling the tingling of discovery are all

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What we seek above all is what gives us satisfaction, entertainment, fun, pleasure and happiness. The quest for pleasure is the basic motive behind every action and behaviour pattern we adopt. "Everything that we do, we do because it gives us some sort of pleasure either indirect or direct(1)." Never the less, some people may doubt this statement because, as they might say, they get no pleasure

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