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The Basics of Pleasure

1. Make being centered and feeling good a top priority.
2. Remember that doing so is primarily an inside job.
3. Remember where you end and all else begins—that
miraculous sheath known as your skin.

4. Breathe, dammit, breathe.
5. Relax your pact to keep your act intact.
6. Establish the here and now as home base from which
you consciously direct your spotlight of awareness.

Blaring horns come in many forms. To tense when you are assaulted by
one is natural. But how long you hold onto the tension is up to you. If your
gremlin traps you into chewing on the memory of the blaring horn event as

if it were bubble gum, your tension and discomfort may last for hours or
even days. And it’s important to remember that there is rarely a positive
correlation between your shaping other people up and your inner peace
being restored. Practice the Basics of Pleasure. I think you will find them a
powerful alternative.