Pressure To Pleasure

Practical tools to help you shift your life - from feeling weighed down with pressure, towards greater pleasure and energy to live stress-free optimum life! We live - and we die. If death is our final fate, why aren't our lives filled with more pleasure? Why do we place so much pressure on ourselves and others? Why do we remain stuck in a daily grind? Why do we not fully enjoy our life journey? What might the world look like if we replaced our stress with pleasure? These are some of the questions Anshu poses in her book, Pressure to Pleasure: A Seven Pillar Pathway for Living Your Best Life. According to the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), up to 90% of all illness and diseases are stress related. Stress affects our well being, happiness, health and every area of our lives. We cannot control what happens in our lives, but we can shift from pressure to pleasure using these methods. Pressure to Pleasure is a practical, proven, and easy-to-use alchemy of tools to shift your state from stress to bliss, from numbness to radiance, and from low energy to high energy. You will learn tools to not only release stress from your mind, body, and life, and also how to bring exponential life-force energy and aliveness into every day. Anshu provides a very simple framework of Seven Pillars; an alchemical toolbox brimming with ancient methodologies like yoga, mindfulness, tao and tantra; combined with modern scientific research. This unique set of tools helps you live your optimum life in every moment. This groundbreaking Seven Pillar method helps you look at your relationship with yourself, your emotions and the patterns of your mind. It gets you deeply connected with your body, invigorates your senses, revitalizes your life-force energy, and uplevels your life. The Seven Pillars work together to help you be in a state of pleasure, the foundation for living your Best Life. The Seven Pillars work together to help you live in a state of pleasure, the foundation for living your Best Life. Want to live your Best Life. Let go of stress and open up to pleasure then watch how life unfolds.

The authors offer unique insights into the factors that make us susceptible to dietary and lifestyle excesses, and present ways to restore the biological processes designed by nature to keep us running at maximum efficiency and vitality. A wake-up call to even the most health conscious people, The Pleasure Trap boldy challenges conventional wisdom about sickness and unhappiness in today's contemporary culture, and offers groundbreaking solutions for achieving change. Authors Douglas Lisel, Ph.D., and Alan Goldhamer, D.C., provide a fascinating new perspective on how modern life can turn so many smart, savvy people into the unwitting saboteurs of their own well-being. Inspired by stunning original research, comprehensive clinical studies, and their successes with thousands of patients, the authors construct a new paradigm for the psychology of health, offering fresh hope for anyone stuck in a self-destructive rut. Integrating principals of evolutionary biology with trailblazing, proactive strategies for well

Young Women and the Negation of Sexual Boundaries The authors examine the continuum of pressures, from social expectation to male physical violence, which shapes women's sexuality, sexual identity and sexual health. They describe the boundaries of sexual pressure and violence, and the degree to which women are able to negotiate these boundaries.

Pleasure and desire have been important components of the vision for sexuality education for over 20 years. This book argues that there has been a lack of scrutiny over the political motivations that underpin research supportive of pleasure and desire within comprehensive sexuality education. In this volume, key researchers in the field consider how discourses related to pleasure and desire have been taken up internationally. They argue that sexuality education is clearly shaped by specific cultural and political contexts, and examine how these contexts have shaped the development of pleasure’s inclusion in such programs. Via such discussions, this volume incites a re-configuration of thought regarding sexuality education’s approach to pleasure and desire.

Academics working in contemporary universities are experiencing unprecedented and unsustainable pressure in an environment of hyper-performativity, metrics and accountability. From this perspective, the university produces multiple tensions and moments of crises, where it seems that there is limited space left for the intrinsic enjoyment arising from scholarly practices. This book offers a global perspective on how pleasure is central to the endeavours of academics working in the contemporary university, with contributors evaluating the opportunities for the strategic refusal of the quantifying, stultifying and stupefying delimiters of what is possible for academic production. The aim of this book is to open up spaces for conversation, reflection and thought, in order to think, to be and to do differently – pleasurably. Contributors rupture the bounds of what is permissible and possible within their daily lives, habits and practices. As such, this book addresses increasingly significant questions. What are some of the multiple and different ways that we can reclaim pleasure and enhance the durations and intensities of our passions, desires and becomings within the contemporary university? How might these aspirations be realised? What are the spaces for the pleasurable production of research that might be opened up? How might we reconfigure the neoliberal university to be a place of more affect, where desire, laughter and joy join with the work that we seek to undertake and the communities whom we serve?

Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.

The tennis star recounts her life and athletic career, from childhood, through her athletic successes, to her life after professional tennis, and discusses the life lessons that she learned at every stage along the way.

The author of the classic In a Different Voice offers a brilliant, provocative book about love that has powerful implications for the way we live and love today. “Compelling ... A thrilling new paradigm.” —The Times Literary Supplement Carol Gilligan, whose In a Different Voice revolutionized the study of human psychology, now asks: Why is love so often associated with tragedy? Why are our experiences of pleasure so often shadowed by loss? And can we change these patterns? Gilligan observes children at play and adult couples in therapy and discovers that the roots of a more hopeful view of love are all around us. She finds evidence in new psychological research and traces a path leading from the myth of Psyche and Cupid through Shakespeare’s plays and Freud’s case histories, to Anne Frank’s diaries and contemporary novels.