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“Bliss” is the rational term for the source of the effects of all the various “words” used to express happiness, joy, and contentment. “Bliss” is also the term factor for all other vocabulary words used to convey your inner satisfaction that is elevated to some level of elation and excitement.

However one “labels” their sense of joy and ultimate satisfaction, the common assortment of “words” have no “meanings” relevant to a rational factor required to produce such pleasant outcomes.

While any number of causes can yield such delight, there is a single rational term defining the factor necessary to rationally understand the process, the rationally directed process, which is the source of all such pleasant outcomes. That rational term is “bliss.”

The very real dilemma in life is that, lacking a rational context of all such joyful outcomes in one's life, it is our inherent nature to default to the irrational direction of emotions, which can only focus on the outcome, the pleasant state of mind itself, and not the source of the desired outcome. As is emotion's nature, it will direct all of one's resources at the shadow and accomplish nothing to bring about the wished-for outcome. Emotions can only react to the “feeling,” whereas the rational responds to the objectives of outcome, which bring about the “feeling.”

All forms and variations of happiness and joy are emotional symptoms, or effects, which are outcomes from doing what brings you bliss.

You may have heard that the joy is in the journey, the progression towards, or following, that which brings you bliss.

You are “happier” on the way to dine, than on the return. You have more excitement, are more alive, before the gifts are opened.

All elements of “joy,” and such, are an affect from a living process in progression, not something found, or achieved, at a destination. Achievements are defined as a climax, which fades with a speed that is in direct proportion to the level of anticipation in reaching that point.

Satisfaction? Yes! The objective has satisfied its purpose, the flower has bloomed. The glory and beauty delivered, its pleasant fragrance is soon the stench of decay, which is how nature marks all progressions when ended.

Finding the path that brings you bliss, and moving down it toward your rational objective (your goal) is how “happiness” and all other feel-good effects are made real in the physical world.

Defining goals for your higher-level rational mind to follow is how you instigate the process of a blissful progression, as well as bring peace and purpose to your mind.

Think of rationally defining your goals ON PAPER as giving your higher functions the name and address of where you want to be, what you want to evolve to be. Until you have an address on your package for where your bliss resides, you are, quite literally, an adrift and homeless wanderer in the universe. You cannot be “helped,” you cannot “help” yourself. In a very real sense, “bliss” does not even exist for you, as only you can define what for you is “bliss.” You may find, by chance, a warm spot to curl up and rest in, that is actually “blissful,” but it is not yours, only something momentarily experienced.

If you ask a young person in high school what they want to be as an adult, and they cannot immediately tell you, that child is in trouble with his future. As Lily Tomlin says, “I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.”

In seeking the release of happiness or joy, failure is assured to the degree one's energy is addressed directly to joy or happiness, rather than to the source of bliss, which is the correct objective. Without this rational clarification, your higher functions tend to default to the emotional level, which seeks symbolism over substance.

Start the process of a blissful life by thinking about what YOU really want. What truly excites you? What are your core values? What is your greatest dream? Just be sure to write it down as you answer yourself.

On paper, your directives are rationally objectified and, only then does your higher rational function have an address, a destination, put down, and is thereby codified, in the ONLY “language” it understands: A rationally objectified goal.

Knowing how you tap into bliss, and fully aware that your “goal department” posts your goal and passes the original to the secretary, Ms. Bliss, insure a prompt response with a self-addressed return envelope. Just don't forget to put the stamp on it with the correct factor value. The one with the correct factor value is the “bliss” stamp. Ms. Bliss will then know that you know who is accountable for the “bliss” dividends from your “trust fund.”