In our society we have raised the value of delaying gratification – I dare to say that this is the most naïve and damn straight stupid things you can ever do.
I would like to share some of my personal background to illustrate why I feel this way. I grew up in a traditional family that set a clear distinction between work time and enjoyment time. Both my parents worked long shifts and had little time in the everyday life. This was compensated for with long and lovely family dinners every weekend where we had all homemade meals, with candle lights and my father awarded himself with a nice glass of wine and perhaps a little cognac. I obviously got my candy and permission to watch my favorite TV show along with my family. This was about the only break we had all week. Every once in a while we went on holiday in our boat. I remember; every time it was the most stressful time in our lives the moment before we got settled. It was all in a rush and everything was stressful, all for the purpose of us relaxing later. Same thing at Christmas; the weeks, days and minutes before Christmas dinner used to be more and more intense. Everyone was running around and stressing so that we could relax later.
To a very large degree I adapted the mindset of delaying gratification. For instance, sexually, I never had a challenge with premature ejaculation. I used to practice building up allot of tension before releasing it to a relatively strong orgasm. (Yeah relatively to my past obviously, being multiorgasmic today) The only problem was I didn`t really enjoy sex in itself as much as I should.
It`s the nature of the masculine, we love the process of building up tension so that we can enjoy the release. This is why we enjoy soccer and similar sports so much, the buildup of tension, and the ecstatic release when we finally score. It’s the most masculine and free moment a man experiences.
I realize tough that this wonderful feeling is not due to the enjoyment of the situation itself, its due to the fact that it’s the only moments where we actually relax and allow ourselves to enjoy the moment.
So these moments we love so much actually robs us for the other 99 percent of enjoyment time. Instead of building up tension to enjoy the release we should instead live our lives free from tension. We shouldn’t have to justify why we feel good, because we worked hard all month or scored a goal, we should just be, be in the moment. This is where we are united with our higher self and this is where we are able to look above the rat race and really grow.
We live our life constantly waiting for the big price, working to deserve it. We stress and build tension so that we can relax and enjoy ourselves later. We work hard in a job we dislike so that one day we will have enough money to relax, or retire, or switch jobs. This day never comes. And even if it does its never as good as we expected and it last a lot shorter.

It`s like living in celibate to increase our sexuality – highly ironic
The other extreme is to live in excess. To live with a screaming addiction, constantly craving for some exterior pleasure to fill a whole – this is even worst.
Instead of living in celibate, or living in excess, we should unify the two and spiritually surrender to enjoyment and fulfillment – to become lovers, lovers of the world, lovers of women, lovers of our work and our friends.
There are three ways to utilize a box of chocolate, one is to ravage the whole thing immediately, another is waiting until its dried out then either through it away our ravage it all then – the third way is to take one piece, smell it, lick it and allow it to melt on our tong so that the entire taste sensation explodes in our body and lasts for minutes at the time.
We seem to believe that the way to a pleasurable life is to fill it up with things that give us pleasure. This is not true: the trick is rather – to squeeze out as much pleasure there is from what we have.
Then first you will realize that we live in abundance of pleasure. That one chocolate piece will give you so much pleasure that you don’t need any more
A very wise man once responded to my desire to be rich with the following: “Why do you want to be rich, you can`t even handle being poor!”
It seems that as human we are afraid of pleasure. We feel like we don’t deserve it, so we have to do something before we can enjoy something. And when we do, it has to last for as short of a time as possible. We can have an orgasm every once in a while but it can tops last for five to ten seconds. We have programmed our minds this way. But the reality is that an orgasm, as well as enjoyment – is not a reaction, it’s a state which can last as long as we want it to.
So instead of making it the exception I opine we make this the norm, to live in enjoyment. Every time we break out of this state, we should simply pause, relax and dive into enjoyment.
As you learn to love what you have to the fullest, and penetrate all pleasure with love, the world will begin to respond to you. Then first you realize you don’t need it – your mind is not filled with happy things, but rather it is drained from everything that isn’t. You are left with simplicity and the pure human nature – happiness
I would love your feedback
Joakim Lea