Allowing yourself to have or enjoy something pleasurable, often something you don't usually permit yourself to have.
From Latin 'indulgere,' meaning to be kind or favorable to. It originally meant to give in to someone's wishes, then shifted to giving in to your own desires.
Your brain's reward system hasn't evolved much since we were hunter-gatherers, which is why you still get an intense pleasure from indulging—it's the same ancient circuit firing that made our ancestors remember where fruit trees were.
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