Our reward systems likely weren’t developed to handle stimuli of that magnitude, because stimuli of that magnitude simply did not exist.
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Conversely, a gram of cocaine on a Saturday night, a hard drive full of every porn permutation imaginable, and a McRib might make you feel even warmer and tinglier, and they’ll certainly keep you coming back for more, but they are supraphysiological triggers of those same reward pathways and thus deserving of suspicion. Thus, if hitting a squat PR, having great sex with your partner, and eating the bag of fat and protein and collagen known as a grass-fed beef rib make you feel warm and tingly, that’s probably a sign that those things are good for you, because our pleasure system was likely developed with those stimuli ( lifting heavy things, sexual contact, animal fat and protein) in mind. We like things for a reason that extends beyond the “liking.” There’s a biochemical component to pleasure, couched in the evolutionary drive to survive and reproduce and prosper. We have to know that something feels good before we can want it, before a behavior can be reinforced or learned. It’s the sensation of pleasure we experience before anything else. Ultimately, it’s the “liking” that we, well, like. Today, I’m interested in the “liking” part of reward – both the subjective experience of pleasure (“that hand massage feels good”) and the objective hedonic response (the neurochemistry that controls the hand massage feeling good). Basically, if we do something or expose ourselves to something (a fun social situation, a healthy food, the sun) that confers a survival and/or health benefit (improved social standing, some vital nutrient that our body needs, vitamin D production), our reward center “activates.” We like it, we want it, and we learn that having it is in our best interest. And that pleasure-seeking is mediated through the reward system, which has several different but interrelated components: liking, which describes the sensation of pleasure wanting, which describes the desire to obtain the thing and learning, the Pavlovian-esque conditioning. As such, our behaviors and our motivations are shaped by that pleasure-seeking tendency. Something, and I don’t care what it is, has to make you feel good before you can truly call yourself happy. Furthermore, the pleasure must come first, before the happiness. We need good feelings and good physical sensations.
But how do we become happy? By definition, happiness requires some type of pleasure to be present. Glass is a pleasure that will last a lifetime.I think we can all agree that a basic goal in life is the attainment of happiness, that mind state characterized by positive and pleasant thoughts and emotions. I am so happy to share these moments with you. Its almost the same as when you order the piece, you have a good sense of what it looks like but haven’t got to hold it and examine it quite yet, then you wait, then eventually a bell rings, you rush to the door and finally get to hold the piece, feel its weight and enjoy it from every angle. Sometimes Ill forget about one of the pieces and get a sweet surprise when the kiln door opens. I love the anticipation and excitement of seeing a piece and having to wait for hours or into the next day before the annealing process is done and it can finally be removed from the kiln to hold and inspect it. At least the difficult times help make those amazing and enchanting moments that glass gives all that much better. Playing with flowing molten glass does so much for me, it’s addicting, relieving, therapeutic, frustrating and can be truly infuriating. Hedonic Glass is here to create fun and functional pieces of glass art.
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