The Goddess Bootcamp by Kagiso Msimango

Author:Kagiso Msimango
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jacana Media
Published: 2012-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Nitric oxide is clearly crucial in maintaining physical health, and obviously a deteriorating body makes pleasure a challenge, but that is not why nitric oxide has a starring role in our case for pleasure. When you experience pleasure, your body releases nitric oxide. Do you get that, Evelet? There is a causal link between pleasure and physical health. Nitric oxide is essential for various crucial bodily processes and feeling good releases nitric oxide. There you go. Pleasure is essential in becoming and remaining healthy. As if that were not enough, high levels of nitric oxide trigger the release of feel-good chemicals such as serotonin, dopamine and beta-endorphins. This means that pleasure makes you feel better physically and emotionally.

Evie, do you feel guilty when you indulge in pleasurable pursuits without a “good” reason, yet happily do pleasurable things for others without an ounce of guilt? In our society, doing good is more valuable than feeling good. A high you acquire from spending the day reading books to the aged socially trumps one gained from a day indulging yourself in luxurious treatments at a beauty spa. A few years back when Iman, the Somalian supermodel, was in South Africa to launch her cosmetics range she said, “When women feel good, they do good.” Perhaps she made this statement because she wanted to sell cosmetics, but being an accomplished and committed philanthropist she probably made it because she has experienced it as truth. Doing good does feel good, but it is not the recommended starting point for women. When women do good in order to feel good we often end up burnt-out or resentful.

An ebook by Sam Geppi, entitled Stellar Relationships,23 explains this phenomenon using Vedic Astrology and the four elements – Earth, Water, Air and Fire. It demonstrates that, for women, feelings precede actions. When women feel good about themselves they are inclined to do good. Think about it, when you are down in the dumps you don’t even want to get out of your pyjamas. On the other hand, when you feel good – say you are feeling beautiful, loved and appreciated – you are inclined towards actions that spread the joy. When we feel loved we want to spread the love. With men, on the other hand, actions precede feelings. A man who can’t do good – say for example one who can’t protect and provide for his family – will feel miserable and emasculated. Men use actions to feel good. Even when you feel bad they want to know what they can do for you.

Women’s good feelings inspire good actions, but we have been pursuing emotional fulfilment in a masculine way, starting with actions instead of feelings. The feminine way appears selfish and wasteful. Through cultivating pleasure, a woman will discover her passions. Her passions will lead to her purpose and provide the impetus to fulfil that purpose. Purpose is always about service, thus the feminine pursuit of pleasure could not be further from selfish and frivolous.

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