<p>That the relations between the mental and the physical seem to be in a number of respects harmonious or fortunate has been the subject of recent discussion. The focus of the present paper is on two of these harmonious relations: the fact that pain is ceteris paribus associated with a fortunate tendency to withdraw from the source of the pain, and that pleasure is ceteris paribus associated with a fortunate tendency to approach the source of the pleasure. The paper examines discussions of these relations to be found in William Robinson, David Chalmers, Hedda Hassel Morch, Bradford Saad, Brian Cutter and Dustin Crummett. It is argued that the explanations offered by these philosophers are not satisfactory. More specifically, it is argued they either fail to explain the fortunateness of the situation in which we find ourselves, or offer us an explanation that requires us to postulate more than is required for our purposes. An explanation is suggested which seems to be free of these defects.</p>