Meet Your Pleasure Tools!

It may have been Mama Gena who coined the term "pleasure tools." She has discovered some excellent verbiage to describe this Pleasure Path journey. You'll find the best of her basics in her book, Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts.
In Mama's world, every woman can consider herself a "pleasure researcher" and hence, never fail at anything...because it's all research, see?
When you're feeling rotten, you're having a "pleasure emergency."
When you are making yourself feel rejuvenated and powerful, you are "fluffing" yourself.
When you clean up your clutter to rearrange your bedroom, bathroom, sock drawer or other non-pleasurable mess, it's called "pussifying," because you're not just cleaning up a mess, you're making way for a more pleasurable use of your stuff. You are pleasuring yourself by cleaning! The woman is a genius. This blog draws greatly on her contribution. After all, she's the one who coined the term, "the Pleasure Revolution."

The way I see it, your Pleasure Tools are the things you already reach for every day, but you haven't given them the proper credit yet. Or you may discover your pleasure tools in happenstance things you stumble across on your path and realize:
"Wow, I forgot! I love this activity/band/movie/color!"
If it makes you feel optimistic and refreshed, if it gives you a belly laugh or turns you on, then you have just found a Pleasure Tool. And if it makes you feel in touch with your core or your sense of purpose, then you know you've really found a gem, something you will want to return to again and again.

We tend to think that life is about hard work, that pleasure is something one gets around to only when the work is done. And yet, it's never really done. So... let's make room for pleasure's treasures now! Additionally, let's face it: life is very challenging. There are about a thousand ways in which daily circumstances can pummel our spirits, offering to make us feel worn down, used up or even "less-than." With your Pleasure Tools, you can "pedal" through it all with grace.

That morning cup of tea, the walk you take, a conversation with a friend: these aren't mere routines or distractions, they are actually saving your life.
And extra gold stars for you if you're taking a class just for your enjoyment, or get regular massages!

When you've elevated your favorite parts of life to the status of pleasure tools, you are now reaching for the things that make you happy, on purpose and with a goal in mind. The goal being, to be juiced and jazzed about living! Instead of merely stumbling through a life that seems to be mostly drudgery, broken by moments of happiness that occur by accident, savoring them hastily or even guiltily and then pushing them aside to go off and do the next "have to," as a nascent pleasure researcher, you can now prioritize these as your
Pleasure Tools: important items that are crucial in helping you get to where you want to go.

How so? As you start to pay attention to your pleasure, listening to your body, heeding its signals, you will be building your life on a foundation that you can really live with. That lump in your throat, that tickle in your stomach, that ahhhh of relief: these are the signals that tell you what's really true. When you start befriending these, you will be inviting synchronicity and your life can shift very quickly!

Are you job or house-hunting, rebounding from a breakup, trying to take your life to a higher level? Keep your Pleasure Tools close at hand, and things will go that much more deliciously.


Pleasure Homework: Write in a journal or on a piece of paper, a list of the things you do today that are just for you. Then add the things that you love out in the world that keep you feeling juiced, inspired and grateful. Keep your pleasure list with you and update it regularly! Is there something that makes the list but you don't include in your life nearly enough? Consider letting it in more.

Please report back to me below: I want to know what jazzes your life!