Until a few days ago, it was a state of bliss, and while that was perfectly happy, it was all "about me." However, in the past few days, the boundary between "me" and "things near me" has shifted slightly, and I feel like I've started to feel "me" even for things very close to me.

If you put it into words, it's something like "oneness," but the word "oneness" is used everywhere, so it sounds cheap. If I were to express it as "oneness," then it is. Even if the same expression is used in words, the depth is different.

Until now, it was a fairly personal bliss, but now it's a state of joy and gratitude, and a feeling of being moved to tears (which may include sadness and longing).

In everyday life, bliss is the basic state, but for example, I sometimes feel gratitude and awe, and tears well up.

Even before, for example, when I ate something very delicious, I might have been moved, but it didn't directly connect to bliss or gratitude or tears.

Perhaps it was because I had just returned from a trip, but even something I had eaten many times before, something ordinary, I felt a sense of gratitude and tears for that ordinary happiness. This time, when I bought a local ekiben (train station bento) at the Okayama station to transfer to the Shinkansen and ate it on the Shinkansen, even though, after all, ekiben is probably more delicious if you eat it at a regular restaurant, and even though the taste was undoubtedly that of a delicious ekiben, I felt a sense of ordinary happiness and cried.

At that point, I couldn't tell whether it was the ekiben that was special or whether it was a change in myself, so on the same day, I decided to try eating a regular set meal at a normal, inexpensive restaurant. Then, even when I put the food in my mouth, I was so moved that I cried. So I thought, "This doesn't seem to be so much about the food itself."

"Bliss" and "joy" sound similar when you just hear the words, and it's difficult to say which is which, but if I were to say that it's a state of "bliss and joy" together, that might be a good way to describe it. It's a state that is quite different, even though it may seem similar.

Bliss is the base, and joy wells up in response to various things, and reactions from the surroundings. This might also be said to be "picking up the emotions of others." It might also be said that "I have become more sensitive." I will continue to observe this in the future.

When I check the state of my aura, I noticed that until about a week ago, there was a slight difference in the aura layer around my chest area. However, (perhaps because I was able to relax during my trip), the aura has been rising from the neck area to the center of my head. This is happening for what feels like the nth time, but with each layer, a slightly more refined and intense aura circulates and permeates my entire body repeatedly. This time, it's based on the energy first entering my body through the ajna chakra and filling it. Recently, I've also noticed that an aura or a droplet-like substance has been descending from the sahasrara chakra on my head and filling various parts of my body, including my abdomen. Then, once that aura has filled my body, it stabilizes, and then it rises again (in a stable state) to the head.

In other words, a clear aura or energy is entering from above, filling the body, and stabilizing the aura. Then, it rises again to the head, and this time, it has begun to fill the head as a single cycle.