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Podcast: Meaningful Life Skills with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Episode: The Science of Kabbalah Pain and Pleasure
Description: Do you have any idea how much impact pain and pleasure have on your life? How many decisions are made and how our behavior and relationships are shaped by our drive for pleasure and our aversion to pain? Freudian psychology -- as well as other schools of thought -- places the pain and pleasure principle at the center of the psyche and its drives. Marketing and advertising seek to trigger our primal emotions by demonstrating how a product or service will bring us pleasure or prevent pain.
Recent studies thicken the plot by showing...