I am just a floating, smiling face that has thought a lot about happiness and enjoyment. If you feel like you need to email me, you may do so at:
There are so many things in this hugely beautiful world that possess the inherent ability to nourish, entertain, relax, and inspire us. Not only is there a vast offering of natural constructs such as beaches to run on, clear water to swim in, mountains to climb, skies to fly though, there is also an unimaginably large library of things created by other humans that were made solely to enhance other lives such as food, music, books, movies, games, and then some. Yet with all of these artifacts surrounding us, we are in a constant struggle with joy and that is incredibly frustrating! Enjoying all of this is not difficult, nor is it complicated, nor is it some kind of game with rules and theories and strategies. On the contrary, it’s so simple it’s baffling.
Just open up your senses and let them do what they were designed to do.
When the body receives stimulation, it goes to the brain carrying one of two very simple messages: either “I like this” or “I don’t like this”. I realize that sometimes we feel like it’s more complicated than that, but the truth is that it’s not and that there is actually just some kind of clutter in the channel between your sensual receptors (eyes, ears, mouth, nose, skin) and your brain. This clutter could be any intricate combination of emotional or societal or cultural factors, it really depends on the person. But the point is that this clutter is usually there. The good news is that it’s extremely manageable! A little exploration and a little spring cleaning can clear that right up for you so that you can better interpret the good things your body is trying to tell you while you move about the planet having experiences. Clear sensual channels open you up to the streams of infinite enjoyment that are always there and always available to you.
Now in all of the years I’ve spent exploring these channels and watching other people explore them as well I’ve made a strange realization, and it ties into the previously mentioned idea of identity in the industrialized parts of the world. We’ve developed this idea that the things we reject are a core part of who we are. It’s almost as if we can’t legitimately enjoy things if we’re not opposing things of differing (and sometimes not so differing, unfortunately) nature. In these cases there is too much sensual blockage and more often then not it’s because YOU put it there! It’s become a game, and it SHOULD NOT BE A GAME! The end result is that there are as many (if not more) things that we do not enjoy as there are things that we do. It’s completely ridiculous and utterly unfair. Somewhere between stimulation and processing, other ideas corrupt the message and we regularly end up in this debilitating space where our love of x is preventing us from appreciating y. Ultimately this only serves to make our lives duller, more negative, and less joyous. To all of you refusing to clean out the channels and experience epicurean flow (consciously or otherwise), I say grow up.
You don’t have a lot of time and you’re wasting a lot of it unfairly disliking things and having less enjoyable life experiences because of it. It doesn’t make you any less you to greatly increase the spectrum of things you enjoy. Now I’m not saying you should be liking everything you encounter, because sometimes our sensual receptors just don’t feel it. And that’s okay! But there needs to be a transparent distinction between things you don’t like because your body is not receptive to them and things you don’t like because you have asinine ideals on life experiences and whether or not these experiences are acceptable to you.
The problem is yours and it’s yours to address. Now quit wasting your time. :)
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