Pleasure Is What Makes Healing Possible

Learn to be with yourself and others through anything: https://yt.artofaccomplishment.com/pl... Joe Hudson (coach to leaders at Apple, Google, SpaceX, OpenAI) shows you how to use simple moments of pleasure to downregulate, get back to the present, and get out of a trigger in real-time. What you’ll learn in this video: Why pleasure is the fastest way to calm your nervous system A precise definition of trauma 5-minute experiment to practice savoring pleasure right now Why most people can’t stay with pleasure for more than a minute (and how to change that) How pleasure and parasympathetic activation work together to reduce stress and anxiety A practical way to break trauma patterns and stop repeating the past A second guided experiment to test if “something is wrong with me” How to get out of a trigger in real time A take-home practice to make ordinary moments (typing, dishes) restorative ••• 🎧 Subscribe to the Art of Accomplishment Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3ezSoop Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3ETrfHA Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3Czx7Tu Other platforms: https://artofaccomplishment.com/podcast ••• 📖 Chapters: 00:00 Introduction: Pleasure is healing 00:28 Performing presence vs enjoying presence 02:16 Why Pleasure signals safety in the nervous system 02:50 Experiment 1: What “Pleasure” Means - Feeling Sensation 05:28 Why it’s hard to stay with pleasure (mind “dust”) 06:25 Why this matters: stress ↓, anxiety ↓, transformation 06:56 Trauma defined: experiencing the present as the past 07:47 How to downregulate in the middle of a trigger 08:52 Experiment 2: Checking if anything is wrong right now 10:55 More tools + next steps