Bliss
Occasionally the brain and body will really like a new flow, and cause bliss for extended periods of time. Enjoy it:) It may not be a final destination, just a temporary condition. Non-resistance is the best policy. Patricia Sharp of Bowling Green University wrote a research paper entitled Meditation-induced bliss viewed as release from conditioned neural (thought) patterns that block reward signals in the brain pleasure center. Author Gary Weber, PhD, who has written about Sharp’s study, explains that “meditation does not suffer from the all-too-familiar ‘down-regulation’ of pleasure experienced with sex, drugs, money, food, etc.” You can build a tolerance to pleasure derived from those experiences, but not to the pleasure obtained through mindfulness. More and more, science is recognizing that practices which remove negative conditioning lead to well-being.