For example, the first half hour after waking up and leaving the room I dedicate to gratitude, breathing and the first aromatic coffee of the day, it is an intimate moment of great connection and calm that puts me in an excellent disposition to start the scheduled activities.

In the morning, a one-hour walk through a beautiful area close to where I live, I like it because there is little vehicular traffic, the birds are waking up, and I enjoy their chirping very much, in the distance, but close I can see the cloudy jungle mountain crowned with a mist. From the top of the sector I can see part of the city and that blue sky that I enjoy in its soft movement and the shapes it creates.

When I get home, if I wake up very early, I usually have already started my work, I have started to write a post and I am ready to finish it, if I have scheduled an on-line appointment I ride on doing the previous preparations and be ready for the session. These are activities that usually flow and I enjoy them.

For reasons of physical well-being I am aware of not spending so much time sitting down to work, so I have been incorporating breaks that are not exactly rest, but change of activity, these activities relax me and I enjoy them as can be a walk around the yard, greet my bushes and clean them of weeds, because we are in the rainy season and the activity becomes necessary.

Among these simple pleasures is meeting with my sisters and nieces at the end of the afternoon, talking about how the day went, the plans we have individually or as a family group, are moments of sharing that fill me with satisfaction and gratitude. I also enjoy sharing with friends, going out to eat something with them, chatting, having a coffee, this meeting has a lot of fun.

In these small pleasures can not miss my passion for reading to which I dedicate two moments during the day, before the nap and at night before bedtime, in the first moment I read materials for personal growth, entrepreneurship, or something related to these issues that make up my working world, at night is the pleasurable reading, literature in the genre novels that catch me and I have to force myself to turn off the lamp to sleep and rest.

I do not want to leave out the pleasure that produces me the daily bath, is one of my favorite moments, let the water run through my body, massage it, and enjoy different aromas relaxes me, for me, it is the perfect time to practice mindfulness and prepares me for the promised rest.

Among the pleasures that I have recently incorporated is the practice of biodance, a discipline that I met through the community @holos-lotus. I found some teachers in my city, and we have formed a cohesive group, it is an experience that nourishes me at an integral level, since it is movement, energy, growth, spirituality and expansion. My connection has been so strong that I take time every day to practice it individually.

There are many small pleasures that I enjoy, as I pointed out at the beginning, the enjoyment of life is in this wonderful present that we have and in the deliberate intention of wanting to be well.

This is my participation to this week's Memoir Monday #18 (7/8-7/14) - What simple pleasures of life do you truly enjoy?, a proposal presented to us by @ericvancewalton.

EN ESPAÑOL

¿Qué placeres sencillos de la vida disfruta de verdad?

Hace años descubrí, en una formación de crecimiento personal, que disfrutar la vida es una actitud que puedo desarrollar viviendo en el presente lo que la vida me da y lo que yo misma me procuro.

¿Antes de eso no disfrutaba la vida?, Sí, si la disfrutaba, solo que no era plenamente consciente de que esos rituales cotidianos, que se convierten en placeres sencillos, eran los que me hacían vivir con alegría y entusiasmo mi día a día.