Laguna Weekly, Health and Wellness
By Leticia Trejo
Although the title of this article invites you to think that I will write about the joy of sexual pleasure, I regret to inform you that this is not the case. The pleasure of knowing that you love yourself has to do with those little flashes of happiness when you find yourself making good decisions for your health. They may be only brief seconds, but they are full of pride. Imagine, you are in a restaurant and the waiter asks you, what are you going to drink; thoughts of flavors that explode in your mouth like the taste of sugar in a cola, or the creamy and bubbly texture of a rich craft beer quickly go through your mind, but for some reason out of your mouth comes a «I’d like a glass of water without ice for me»: I’d like a glass of water without ice, please. The sky is shining, the day is brighter and you didn’t know why, but when they bring you the glass of water you enjoy every sip as if it were the first time you drink this precious liquid.
One of the signs that you are appreciating yourself more is precisely this kind of decision. You find yourself preparing a salad for lunch, you buy a box of chocolates and it lasts you more than three months, you even forget that there is chocolate in your pantry, the bread hardens in the cupboard and the tortillas become hard in the refrigerator. The anxiety to eat everything has diminished, it has become small, and your self-esteem has become bigger. This is not a fact that happens overnight, in reality these small changes have been developing through a deeper state of consciousness, which is being created with small daily actions. For example: before brushing your teeth, it was a mechanical and unconscious fact where you did not realize that this brushing lasted only 30 seconds, when you make it conscious you stay in front of the mirror of your bathroom feeling where the brush passes, you stay more seconds in each area of your mouth, you repeat the brushing, you open your mouth more, now you also brush your tongue until you feel that the cleaning has reached all the spaces of your mouth and the feeling of pleasure for feeling your teeth clean represents small flashes of happiness. Yes, happiness.
Taking care of our health can be simpler than it seems, and more satisfying than we want to admit, it has nothing to do with spending a few thousand pesos in sophisticated medical studies, MRIs and scientific experts that give us approval and attest to our well-being. The intimate pleasure of knowing that you love yourself has more to do with what you do for yourself on a daily basis. Smiling at yourself in front of the mirror, dancing alone in your room, cleaning your shoes, washing your clothes, reorganizing your closet, going to the market to buy for yourself what you are going to cook later, buying a comfortable pillow, changing your sheets, and so on. Happiness is hidden in each of these actions that you make of you for you.
«People look with the expectation that eventually they will be happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking into the future,» said Eckart Tolle which reinforces the idea that it is presence, YOUR presence in every detail of the actions you perform that will make you notice the care, love and gentleness with which you treat yourself. Then you will stop blaming the other, resentment will settle into the corner where it should stay, and health, well-being, and happiness will find a permanent home in your life.
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