How do you find and follow your Bliss? Bliss is more than an emotion. It is operating in a cooperation with the energies of your life, mind, and body in such a way that we find happiness, pleasure, and satisfaction. I was talking about this with a circle of friends, and one of them said, "Sex is my bliss." I couldn't have disagreed more. Sex doesn’t bring joy, but closeness and intimacy does. It might be possible to find bliss in relationships, but for bliss is not an action, or the result of an action, it is a state of being. Another friend said, "Drugs are my bliss." Again I had to disagree. Bliss is more than the neurochemistry that makes us feel happiness, joy, or even awe. It is a state that contains both contentment and clarity. Bliss doesn’t leave withdraw, loneliness, or shame in its wake. It is living in awe. My bliss is creativity. I love to make pictures and stories. I feel it down to my bones. When I allow myself to be creative, I experience pleasure, happiness, and a sense of fulfillment I cannot find anywhere else. You can discover your bliss by discovering what it is you find a state of flow in. Flow is when you lose yourself in something, losing all track of time and become completely absorbed in the task at hand. Often it is something we first started doing as a child. It is recognized by the fulfillment you find in the work. “If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time (Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, 113).” It can also be seen through the events that happen around you. You will start surrounding yourself with people who support and encourage that life. Hidden hands will support you in all that you do. This is our first path. There is no one who can tell us what our bliss is, and often we will have to cut our own way forward. It is the work of our hearts and the testimony of our spirits. It is the way we were always meant to live.