Finding pleasure in life before pleasure arrives

​Often life feels unpleasurable. Not because life is not pleasurable, but because we've fallen into a pattern of deciding we are not going to be pleased.

Sometimes this is a pattern we're aware of. More often than not, though, it's a pattern that quietly grabs hold of us each new morning and goes on to dictate the terms of each new day.

In this case, things have happened to us along the way that leave us feeling displeased with life. And long after those things have passed, the emotions attached to them insist on being a part of our morning routine.

They want us to build a life on reliving the past and not imagining the future.

Dr. Joe Dispenza says, if we don't wake up to a day dictated by the possibilities of the future we will automatically fall back into the patterns of the past.

That's our brain. It starts the day as tired as we feel. And if we don't take control of it, it will take control of us.

It will revert back to the patterns from the morning before and the morning before that. And if those patterns are patterns that feel displeased with the world, we will start our day predicting the world is going to drown us in displeasure in the day ahead.

So, what do we do?

We wake up and tell the day ahead I will be pleased with you. I am choosing that pleasure right now.

We tell our brain I am not going to wait for a future that feels pleasurable to feel pleasure, I'm going to choose to be pleased with that future even before it arrives.

We inform our brain that we are tired of dwelling in the emotions of our past and we command it to experience the emotions we feel while envisioning the possibilities our future.

Every day we get a choice. Take control of my emotions or let my emotions take control of me. The outcome of that choice will largely determine how pleased we feel about life.

Be pleased with life before it gets pleasurable. Maybe that's the most pleasurable way of all to live life.