Pleasure is the capacity to register, tolerate and remain with positively felt experience.
Pleasure is the capacity to register, tolerate and remain with positively felt experience.
Pleasure sounds effortless until we notice how quickly many people interrupt it.
They hurry.
Evaluate.
Feel guilty.
Wonder how long it will last.
Reach for more before the first experience has even landed.
Pleasure capacity includes being able to let enough be enough.
To notice warmth without needing it to become intensity.
To enjoy something without immediately earning, documenting or optimizing it.
Pleasure is not frivolous in this framework.
It is part of how living systems learn what supports life.