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Access to Bliss: Reflections on Sensitivity, Connection, and Finding Beauty in the Everyday

I love how my writing is about making it happen as you go, letting yourself flow and allowing others to read what your brain is creating. Of course, there is always editing, and a second draft, but these blogs do not go beyond that. Because that is the way I want to write for you. Yes, there are better ways according to some people, yet this way is a great way because it keeps me writing every Thursday. I think it has been more than 5 months, only missing a couple of weeks. Which is amazing, because I am faster now, I can trust that I can do it. I can place the energy that I want to express, a bit of me to you. I am so grateful that you are reading too. I love expressing, I love connecting, and I love remembering that we all have the incredible power of connecting to others. Simpaticing, rejecting who cares, I care that I am capable of making my life a bit brighter every time I write. I also like to think that I am a bit of light for your day.

In my normal day my brain is capable of going to many places, some are nice and some are a bit more cloudy, but in my day I am placing more and more pieces that remind me of the beauty in the things I do, the art that I consume and the people I talk to. It is my decision to bring my joy to the surface. So tell me what sparks joy in your life? I like that I am capable of doing two things: the first is putting attention on things and tasks that uplift me and second, I can internally prepare to make anything I go through an experience full of delight. It is like having an app or AI assistant, that gets to know you over time. This app only brings to your eyes what motivates you and inspires you to do what you really enjoy. This app is also capable of adding effects and filters to make everything you watch even more appealing and inspiring. I really want that app. I think there is no name that I could give that is not already taken so I will go with simple and generic good. Let’s collect bliss, I heard somewhere about a drug with that name. 

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I like to believe that we are equipped with bliss, yet we are very distracted from accessing it. Instagram has invested more time in kidnapping your attention, if you have used TikTok, you know that Instagram wears nappies compared with it. Maybe YouTube is even more enthralling, because there is a lot of content that could be very informative and apparently beneficial, but at the end of the day it is just another social media app capable of disappearing minutes of your life. My intention is not to bring attention to something that you really know and are incapable of fighting. It is more about bringing the light to that light within you that can make every second slightly more beautiful. I heard a few days ago about something called PAS in Spanish. It translates as HSP (High Sensitive Person). This is how ChatGPT described it — it refers to individuals who have a heightened sensitivity to stimuli, both emotional and environmental and tend to process information more deeply. Of course, after researching a bit about it, I realised that it sounds a lot like me. So I have not been able to stop thinking about how I see and what I see. Also, not everyone is like that. Yes, it was my psychologist who talked to me about it and she says that I am like that. I found that amazing, I found it amazing that it actually brings a bit of clarity about my ways of being and also gives me a better way to see myself. I am sure that at some point I will go deeper on this topic. Right now it is the reason I am talking about this idea today. Because if I am very sensitive, it is very interesting to try to change my glasses both to see things better and to drink something more nutritious.

I like pretty things, and I want those pretty things in my life. I want to bring sunsets back to my life, I want to bring back the feeling after being inside the cold ocean for a few minutes. I want to bring a dance where I commit to disappear from the universe.  Just to clarify, I am so lucky that I live in this great country and I am surrounded by so much art, gardens and activities that elevate living. But living is no more than a passing of hours if we do not dedicate a second to putting ourselves in the places we want to be and enjoy. It is as important that we present ourselves to these opportunities with a fresh open-minded awareness to be blessed by the moment that we are in. It is time to access bliss in your life.

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