Pain and Pleasure - A Step towards successful mindset

 

According to Sigmund Freud's developed principle of pleasure and pain.

"Humans will often do more to avoid pain than to give pleasure." 

Something that you won't even know it's happening. This principle is the motive of all the decisions we make. All aspects of human creations are based upon this principle, whether they are actions, decisions, beliefs, values, or inventions. Both pleasure and pain work simultaneously. People blocking a negative situation to continue for being painful and unhealthy, but before that, the thoughts of dealing with it make it more painful. Therefore avoiding is what everybody does but do you know it can be used for betterment. Like you might find this principle used in different areas of working. Industrial sectors use this concept extensively to handle their employees. Promotions when done the given targets and deleting credits once unsuccessful to achieve it. This makes employees avoid pain and work towards achieving pleasure. This keeps the company and employees motivated. This is done because short-term motivation like through speech, etc, is temporary. And motivation is feelings you can't solely depend on than to be consistently understanding the fundamentals of what drives human behavior can help you utilize them to create lasting change. Using it correctly you can change your entire life.
 
If you want to change yourself then change what you link pleasure and pain too. Just a few right connections can change your entire life.
Now, the question that arises is how to use it to make things work.

• STEP 1- Realize: 

Realizing the pain you are avoiding is keeping you away from what you want and should be doing.

• STEP 2- Visualize: 

Visualize the pain you would get if you don't do the task.  

• STEP 3- Replace and Link: 

Replace the pain from step 1 with the pain from step 2. That is from the pain of what has to do to what would happen if you don't.  

Well here are three steps -

Let's take a practical example
I created a positive neural association which explains why I love working out ever since and listening to a specific playlist that motivates you every time I exercise. I feel this physical urge in my body to go workout and my brain begins making a mental movie of me loving myself in comfort and accomplishments.
When you take something challenging and make it an enjoyable experience this massively increases your chances to do it again in the future that's because now your brain isn't resisting it wants to do it.
 
Numerous studies have shown that the brain doesn't know the difference between imagination and reality, So when your visualizing something you are building neural networks as if that image or experience had already occurred which is why you can get in such a strong emotional state.
 
So when we are in the moment of whether or not to get started ask ourselves what will be the pain if we take action but instead we need to ask ourselves what will be the pain if we don't do it. Focus and visualize this picture in your head. You can link pleasure to doing your task with the method you read earlier.
 
All valued aspirations like health, wealth, relationship, success comes from consistency but consistency doesn't mean perfection, consistency is winning a majority of the time so for the time when we fall we learn to get back on the trail and get used to it because when you make mistakes you learn. The key is to learn to forgive yourself and try again. Life controls you if you don't learn to use pain and pleasure.