Ple^sure Principles
Join us on Ple^sure Principles, the podcast where desire meets discovery. The host, delves into the world of sensual pleasure, intimacy, and relationships, exploring the complexities and nuances of human connection.
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Ple^sure Principles
Embracing Innocence and Joy Through Mindful Masculinity and Spiritual Pleasure - Scott grace
What if the essence of pleasure could be distilled into the playful joy of dolphins? Join us as we explore the enchanting world of Scott, a motivational and conscious comedian, who uncovers the innocence and spiritual purpose of pleasure in our lives. Through Scott's vivid imagery and whimsical tales, including a fresh take on the Garden of Eden, we unravel how adulthood often twists our pure desires into guilt and addiction. This engaging discussion touches on historical misinterpretations of desire, reminding us to embrace the universe's abundant pleasures without fear or hesitation. With Scott's guidance, we explore how gratitude helps maintain the spiritual dimensions of pleasure, preserving our original innocence.
Prepare yourself for a transformative journey as we dive into the realm of mindful masculinity with Scott, whose influential work has brought magic to many lives through his YouTube channel and book, "Mindful Masculinity." Discover how staying curious, playful, and open to new experiences can enrich your understanding of joy and pleasure principles. As we wrap up, take a moment to reflect on how you can incorporate these insights into your life and share this episode with someone who might benefit from a touch more joy. Remember, the power to embrace joy and mindfulness is within your reach.
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...The podcast where we dive deep into the art, science and mastery of pleasure. It's power to transform, connect and uplift. I'm your host, avik, and today's episode promises to be as profound as it's playful. Promises to be as profound as it is playful. So joining me is someone who needs no introduction, but trust me, you will want to hear it anyway. So, okay, I'll bring it like this Imagine if Eckhart Tolle, robin Williamson and Brene Brown and Dr Shoes had a wild karaoke night and out of it emerged a soul who could strum a guitar, spark, dip insides and keep you laughing till your cheeks hurt. Yes, I guess you understood who I'm talking about. That'sott craze for you. So welcome to the show, scott well, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2:Wow, what an introduction.
Speaker 1:The pressure is on so, so, uh, I'll quickly, briefly, uh, mention this to all of our listeners. Dear listeners, scott is a motivational, uh, motivational, drop-down, conscious comedian and spiritual wisdom weaver with decades of experience. And, trust me, there's nothing quite like the magic he brings to a conversation. And today we are exploring the innocence and spiritual purpose of pleasure. The innocence and spiritual purpose of pleasure, not just the sensual kind, but the full spectrum of joy that makes life worth living. So, buckle up for some laughs, a few rhymes and plenty of aha moments. So, welcome to the show again.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you. I feel welcomed by you.
Speaker 1:Lovely, lovely. So, scott, like before we delve deep into this, uh, I have to ask, like, when you think about the innocence of pleasure, what's the first image or, uh, maybe a memory that pops into your mind?
Speaker 2:dolphins. Dolphins do three things they play, they make love, who I really am and that I deserve to spend my life eating, making lunch. And what was the third one? Playing, jumping up and down, bubbly joy. From one pleasure to another.
Speaker 1:Exactly, wow, and so I definitely love that, and such a great siege, or I mean into uh, into this. So, uh, what does the word pleasure mean to you and, um, if you can briefly mention this, and how has this meaning evolved in your life?
Speaker 2:Well, pleasure, like everything, has been a source of pain and a source of pleasure. There are times where pleasures hold me back because I get addicted to them and I'm not willing to feel certain feelings and deal with issues, that pleasure can become a distraction. But what pleasure has been for me? It has in terms of gold, in terms of innocence. It reminds me that my natural state is to be pleased. Pleasure to be happy, joyful, to walk, skip, dance, sing through this life with childlike heart, with spontaneity. And so pleasure reminds me that I'm innocent, original innocence.
Speaker 1:Lovely, and how do you balance the instinctive or maybe the physical aspects of pleasure with its deeper and the spiritual dimensions?
Speaker 2:pleasure with its deeper and the spiritual dimensions. Ah, wow, that's an interesting question, let's see. I well, you asked me, so I'll just think, think of myself as I. I have a lot of pleasures in my life, from sports to food and all kinds of things, and how I perceive it as a spiritual thing is by practicing gratitude. So this morning I had a breakfast, and before this meal and any meal, I put my hands over the food and I say thank you so much, mother Earth, for providing the bounty on my plate right now. Thank you all the farmers that grew this food, Thank you the cooks if there are cooks involved besides myself and I. Just I am grateful for every pleasure, Not from a place of I am not worthy and yet God has blessed me with all this stuff. No, Gratitude is just acknowledging hey, I'm a lucky duck. Every breath is taken care of, every breath. I don't even have to breathe, It'll just happen. That's how much we're taken care of while we're here.
Speaker 1:Wow, lovely, lovely, uh. I mean, uh, do you think that we as adults have forgotten how to approach pleasure innocently?
Speaker 2:yes, um, yes, absolutely. Uh. By being gluttons, by being addicted to pleasure, we're trying to make up for the fact that we feel guilty for even wanting pleasure. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. Now, that has been misunderstood, because the word want, back in the day, meant lack. I shall not lack. I shall not lack for anything. But the way that it's been interpreted is I shall not have desires. I shall not want to have pleasure. I shall feel guilty for even wanting pleasure, and when I take pleasures I will feel even more guilty, so that I can obey this God of punishment.
Speaker 2:It's ridiculous, and you know that I think I've shared this on one of your podcasts, the Garden of Ease rhyme. But it's all about pleasure and innocence and how we block our hearts from receiving what the universe is just wanting to pour through. I'd like to read you a little bit, if that's okay. Sure, yeah, get in your pajamas, let's gather and snuggle and I'll tell you a story, the story of struggle. It begins at a time before struggle began, in a garden called Eden, where all things were grand. The people who tended the garden had fun. They prospered and pleasured and got lots of things done. And got lots of things done.
Speaker 2:One day, two folks call them Adam and Eve went under their covers with shame and some leaves. And then came the blame game. Who cut the cheese? Was it Eve or a snake, or the wrong choice of trees? The day-to-day play, all the pleasure they were given, gave way to this sense we must work for a living. And God did reply. Kids, you gotta be kidding. Everything you could want is right here, not forbidden. But they would not. They could not receive the good news. They thought that to play they must first pay their dues. By the sweat of thy brow we must now earn our bread. And they didn't know the gluten had gone to their heads. Then they passed this confusion right on to their kids, biting their loins with more leaves for more figs, teaching their offspring original sin, who then passed it off to their nextest of kin.
Speaker 2:And they made their cause noble. They justified. To suffer is God's will. No pain means no gain, and if you have struggled through life unabated, when you die your rewards card will be activated. That's when you cash in your hard sacrifices and rest up in heaven with the rest of the righteous.
Speaker 2:And so us humans, we assumed the position of forgetting. God's love didn't come with conditions. We dreamed up a God with a list of demands, with rules and judgments, and a whip in his hands. And over the seas came the pure Puritans to spread the work ethic all over the land. The pleasures of life must not ever be trusted. If you dare enjoy sex, you're eternally busted. God sits on a cloud with his one only son, and they both wear a frown if you're having fun. But if you can grab a bull by its horns, well then God is pleased and might send less shitstorms. And then on your tombstone, your tribute might say he worked hard for the money and toiled each day. He played by the rules, never did make a scene. And here lies his body, along with his dreams wow, lovely, really really lovely.
Speaker 1:Yeah and uh, let's talk about the connection between pleasure and the creativity.
Speaker 2:So how do you use pleasure, whether it's humor, music or spontaneity as a creative tool in your work. I don't, no, couldn't. Well, I'm going to get around to explaining that. You know, for me I could use a lot more integration between recreation and creativity. I find that I have this okay, the fun is done, let's get to work attitude, and I still separate recreation from occupation. So when I'm at the computer, I'm doing my responsibilities, I have a frown on my face and I can't wait to be done, and so I have some work to do on this, and some things that come to mind is put some really happy music on while I'm doing menial tasks, dance while I'm doing those tasks, move my body, start to integrate that pleasure and responsibility can go together and be one and the same. I live in a country, mexico, where it seems like celebration of life is 24-7, whether they're at work or at play, the weekend, the weekday. They just love life, and I want more of that in my life, that consciousness.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's so lovely. Yeah, yeah, that's so lovely, yeah. And also like I can only imagine the joy I mean everyone feel when they experience the performances. So do you think that joy is contagious, or is sharing pleasure a way of creating community?
Speaker 2:Both. Wow, yeah, I'll take both. I'll have both, senor. Why would there be a difference? Say the question again. Let's see can I can rhyme or sing my answer oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:So I'm saying like, um, uh, what to say? Like many, many people, many people feel that they experience, uh, the performances. Now, uh, what, according to you? I mean, is the joy contagious, or is sharing pleasure a way of creating the community?
Speaker 2:Sharing joy is most definitely contagious. It helps other people get out of their cages. When you share joy, it's downright outrageous. So let's share the joy with our communities and teach people it is safe to be pleased. You can study this stuff till you're blue in the face or dive into the ocean of amazing grace. You can't really learn this from a book, but you can get it through osmosis meaning yes, joy is contagious. Yes, children need to see adults happy. They need to see that being grown up can be fun and making the world a better place can be done with a smile on your face.
Speaker 1:Exactly, and okay, so you mentioned your spiritual doctor's use, the personal. Yeah, how do humor and playfulness open people up to experiencing the pleasure in a way that they might not expect?
Speaker 2:dissect, to put under a microscope to the left brain, something that I am intuitively driven to do and I know it makes it makes somebody said and I have to look this up, find out who it is People don't remember what you said, they remember how you make them feel, and that's where joy is contagious and we learn best from feelings. So I find it difficult to be a professor or an analysis of this natural, instinctual thing that I do and that we all do. What I'm most interested in is how to help others rediscover what's natural, what's innate Human nature before original sin took hold, and I find I do that best through music and poetry and comedy.
Speaker 1:Okay, lovely. And also yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was about to ask, like, is there a rhyme that you have created?
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, actually it'll be a song. Yeah, okay, but it's, it was written, okay. So when I was eight years old, I was walking through the playground with my parents and I saw monkey bars and I like a little play thing and I ran over and I climbed the monkey bars and my parents kept walking and then I ran over to them and continued the walk through the park and I said Mom, dad, do you think when I grow up I won't do things like that, like spontaneously run over to the monkey bars and play? Is that what being an adult is all about? And they said yes, and I remember making an inner vow that I would not let myself go there, I would not become anything like the workaholics that my parents were. And I wrote the song in my 20s to cement the deal make a vow.
Speaker 2:I got a brand new occupation, and it's to live in celebration every day, every moment of my life, every moment of my life. I got a brand new occupation and it's to live in celebration Every day, every moment of my life. It used to be. Misery was my full-time job. Weekends and holidays I could play. Then I saw the little ones 24 hours of having fun. I knew that I was born to live the way I came. I got a brand new occupation, and it's to live in celebration every day, every moment of my life. I used to take my pleasures when the time was right, when the proper people gave me their okay, okay. Then I saw, when it came to good cheer, this world needed some pioneers. Now I let myself be joyful every day. I got a brand new occupation it's to live in celebration every day, every moment of my life, every day, every moment, every day, every moment, every day, every moment of my life. He's.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's awesome, awesome. I have to say yeah, yeah, lovely, great deal listeners. I guess you all are enjoying about this. And what a lovely song. Let's say yeah, thank you. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise and those beautiful songs and the rhymes. So, for those who are listening right now, what's one small or joyful practice they can incorporate into their lives today to begin reconnecting with the innocence of pleasure? What do you say?
Speaker 2:Well, what's coming is practice an inner smile, practice it, fake it. If you're not feeling it, pretend. When you look at yourself in the mirror, wink and stick out your tongue and say you, you are an innocent, worthy, deserving dolphin of the universe oh, wow, lovely, lovely, yeah, great.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much, and that's a wrap for today's episode of pleasure principles, dear listeners, and a huge thank you to scott for sharing his humor, wisdom, soulful songs and the rhymes with us today my goodness, may I, may I jump in here?
Speaker 2:I would like to say that if, if anybody wants to connect with me, uh, I have a life coaching practice. I've got books, it's all. And the spiritual dr seuss is right there on my website comedy. Any. Just go to wwwscottsongscom.
Speaker 1:S-c-o-t-t-s-o-n-g-scom wow, lovely, great and listeners. I'll put this into the show notes for for your reference. And T-T-S-O-N-G-S dot com Wow, lovely, great and listeners. I'll put this into the show notes for your reference. And if you want to experience more of Scott's magic, make sure to check out his YouTube channel and his book Mindful Masculinity and all the other incredible work he is putting out into the world. So if you have enjoyed this episode, do not forget to subscribe, leave a review and share it with someone who could use a little more joy in their life. So until next time. This is your host Avik signing off. Stay curious, stay playful and keep exploring the pleasures or I would say principles of pleasure. So thank you so much.
