17/09/2025
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room: our schooling system, later the corporate system and it's correlation to addiction.
The way these systems are designed, they disconnect us from our own body or more accurately, from our sense of comfort and pleasure.
This is especially true for the hyperactive, the non-intellectually dominant, and those of an artistic nature.
Caroline Myss, in her book Energy Body, offers one of the most accurate explanations of addiction and how it is engineered into our systems.
She writes:
“Denying pleasure is to deny our own vital force. Pleasure is a vital ingredient in creativity, mental health, and physical well-being.
We perceive the world through our senses and feelings.
When pleasure is denied, we live only a fraction of our human experience instead of the full spectrum.
And when primary healthy pleasures are denied, secondary pleasures take over: drinking, smoking, overeating…
Healthy pleasure gives true satisfaction.
Secondary pleasure only creates craving, making us prone to addiction."
So the question is:
What primary healthy pleasures have you been denied (if any) and what small steps can you take today to invite them back into your life?
Peace 🌿
