Hints and tips:
...This isn’t just about bringing attention to pleasurable or happy moments and ignoring or avoiding the difficult ones, though....
...This trifecta includes “neuro-textures” – a cream that feels good and triggers a pleasurable reaction – and neuro-active ingredients....
...You soon begin to understand what makes them so pleasurable, even addictive: they’re simple to operate, convenient to hop on and off and give you the faintest sensation that you’re floating on a magic carpet...
...After having my son, I found drinking became less and less pleasurable. Even wine with dinner would leave me with a migraine – and days of remorseless anxiety....
...I spent a pleasurable hour this week travelling down the rabbit hole of point collecting with Rob Burgess, editor of HeadforPoints.com, the frequent flyer website....
...“Dishabituating” can help us revel in the good stuff that we have stopped noticing, through simple tricks like quitting social media or breaking pleasurable experiences into smaller chunks....
...What we need now is a similarly imaginative vision of a new kind of home, one which will be more pleasurable to live in....
...The handmade bottoncini, filled with fresh mozzarella di bufala and served room temperature on a bed of sweet minced raw tomatoes, were beyond pleasurable on a 38C day....
...It’s aesthetically pleasurable and fun to set up the table with flowers and all the food on platters and bowls.”...
...What began as a simple feeling of relief – being removed from the social gaze during lockdown – became actively pleasurable, as I remembered being a child stuck at home with a dressing-up box....
...When it’s on the end of its adjustable 1.7m pole, jobs that previously involved teetering on a stepladder become a whole lot easier – almost pleasurable....
...Perhaps that person will try the scissors out on a ripe bunch of grapes and think about the pleasurable snap and burst of the picking and eating....
...It would, after all, be wrong to include any ostentatious condiments — aside from the occasional pickle or sliced red pepper — and antisocial to produce something that was more pleasurable than that of your...
...Two key enhancements of pleasurable small-space living, he has learnt, are multi-functionality and transformability....
...And I mean, he actually bothered to, but you know, by that, by that point they were trying to find almost getting down into the granularity of why this thing, all of us did that was really so nice and so pleasurable...
...the new novel from Brandon Taylor, who was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize for his debut, Real Life, and it’s full of this enveloping cleverness, a winning combination of caustic observation and pleasurable...
...Isabel BerwickSo it’s not actually pleasurable. And you can accept that. Viv GroskopWell, I think you can accept you don’t have to do it....
...From my FT days in Brussels, I have vivid (and not wholly pleasurable) memories of how difficult it was to pass treaty reform in all member states in the 2000s, the last time it was done....
...listening experience, it requires a certain amount of surrender, as mini-histories and anecdotes accumulate, and Sagar’s delivery brings with it the requisite bounce and tongue-in-cheekiness to create a hugely pleasurable...
...Progress is inherently pleasant and satisfying and pleasurable. And when you’re not making progress along a whole bunch of different dimensions anymore, it’s just not fun anymore....
...Once you tell your children that you have paid $1,100 for jeans, the right to lecture your offspring about the value of money — that most time-honoured and pleasurable prerogative of fatherhood — is forfeit...
...My Father’s House begins with a list of people in a choir: the network who gathered with O’Flaherty under the guise of rehearsing, and one of the most impressive and pleasurable aspects of the novel is the...
...Like most pleasurable things in life, once you start it’s hard to stop.”...
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