You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.
We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a discrepancy between what we are doing or putting our bodies through and then what our minds are telling us, you really have to look at yourself, and the most essential part of it is the pleasure aspect.
You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
It's very satisfying. To perform the way you want to. And the way you know that you can.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.
Any professional athlete will tell you that the mind is everything. For me, there is no shame in saying that I visualize and I meditate, because it really works.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.