What swimming in the 14,5 deg C-cold Danube has to do with pleasure-based living
Pleasure is available all the time if you know what to look for.
Today is a wonderful day for taking a run — cool, cloudy and dry. So I jogged on the Danube island in Vienna. A bit cool in the beginning, but after half an hour my body was warmed up.
That’s when I saw the dark blue water and I felt the urge to swim.
I wanted to feel immersed in the water and feel it streaming over my bare skin.
I stopped, checked the water temperature and hesitated. No surprise there 🙂
Instead of turning away, I remembered to follow my desires.
I got naked, stepped down the ladder into the cool water — and waited a bit… before letting go of the railing and sinking into the clear water.
It wasn’t a long swim, but that doesn’t matter.
What matters is that I followed my pleasure of feeling the water surrounding me.
Pleasure-led experiences don’t need to be conventionally pleasurable, but they need to come from your inner desire.
When did you recently follow your inner desire? What was it?
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Originally published at https://mariahubmann.com on June 30, 2021.
