FIND MORE PLEASURE, PEOPLE
(If you missed the first post in this 3-part series, be sure to read it for the instructions on how to get started.)
I’ve been learning about pleasure. I never really thought about pleasure as something that was good for me. But it is.
Growing up, there were rewards for a job well done, like a nice dinner if I didn’t get a cavity at the dentist. But this wasn’t about pleasure so much. More like positive reinforcement for approved behavior.
Pleasure is simply what feels good.
Pleasure has benefits that I usually take for granted – as if those benefits would still be available without pleasure. Benefits like peace, less stress, more calm, less pain, more joy.1
Experiencing more pleasure makes us more resilient when times are tough.
In fact, the reason I started to pay more attention to pleasure was because I was doing more intentional work around healing from trauma (a long story for another time — see the first footnote below for the teachers who helped me on this path.) Suffice it to say, that as I learned to retrain my body and mind to know safety, to be less hyper-vigilant, to relax, and finally to enjoy, I paid more attention to the blissful sensations of a hot bath.
In fact, pleasure moved to the center of my bathroom designs and has reset my ideas of what this room is for.
Finding more pleasure in the bathroom? Really?
Yes. Read on to learn:
Concrete ways to bring more pleasure into your bathroom design
How to prioritize the senses, the gateway to pleasure, which is also how we calm the mind
Ideas for the 6 senses (perception is a sense in this case)
Practical considerations you don’t want to forget when you design a bathroom
What “builder grade” means, what to expect with it, and to learn the value of better quality materials.
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