This all sounds really depressing, right? And yet I find that I’m surprisingly proactive and creative with what I am able to do, and at the same time much more in touch with my own feelings than usual. I guess that I’m just more in touch with them because there is more time for them to develop and for me to experience them. I’m not busy all the time and can allow myself to go off on an emotional tangent. I guess that describes pretty much everyone around, but are they also embracing those emotions?
Personally, I’m feeling tearful more often when I watch movies: more than once I started crying in the middle of film that I usually wouldn’t be too fussed about. And it’s not limited to sad feelings: I also feel strangely good about things that I would otherwise brush off as ‘I did an okay job with this’ or ‘yeah, that feels kind of good’. These days I find myself laughing out loud or getting all giggly from things that don’t affect me at all in ‘normal times’. I believe that all this has a lot to do with the availability of time to myself, in addition to having less pressure from work and having accepted that there is only so much I can do to keep busy professionally. For the first time ever I feel that I’ve done all I could rather than ‘I should do this as well. And that, too!’, and that gives me the right to take time off. Where does bliss come into this? It’s quite simple, really. Giving myself allowance to experience emotions more often and more fully naturally leads to heightened senses and bigger emotional outbursts. Going into certain tantric exercises or simply allowing yourself to experience touch fully will automatically have a bigger impact. It’s all down to being more open to the experience than otherwise. Feeling anxious about the future opens a channel that works for sorrow but also for joy, it’s really up to you to use it either way: you choose the direction this goes, and whatever you choose is going to be enhanced. And that works for embracing bliss fully, of course. Mindset is everything when it comes to allowing emotions. If your mind manages to steer you away from the sad ones and towards the joyful ones, you are on the right way to finding bliss and enjoying it.
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