How would you describe joy?
- The dictionary describes joy as: A feeling of great pleasure and happiness. Some words that have the same meaning as joy: Delight, joyfulness, rejoicing, exhilaration, bliss, ecstasy, and enjoyment.
- Deepak Chopra describes joy as: “Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.”
What is Joy?
Joy is a divine quality of our true self, an experience of our deepest spiritual nature, it is our natural nature. Joy is connected with happiness and is inside us. All we have to do is shift our perspective and then touch it. We can choose the emotions and feelings we want in our lives, so let’s pick joy.
If you watch children playing you can see the full expression of joy. They are their true selves, playing, laughing and finding wonder in everything around them. Children are free from worry, limitations, expectations, restrictions, or fear. They are creative, intuitive and naturally joyful.
How can we live in joy?
- Laugh more and engage in activities that bring us joy.
- Be grateful in every situation, even when it is not as we desire.
- Cherish every aspect of our life. Know that there is a solution for every challenge and that challenges are opportunities in disguise.
- Release and let go of worries, limitating beliefs, expectations, restrictions, fears or anything else that inhibits us from experiencing joy in our life.
- Connect and spend time with our Little Child.
- Watch children play and remember how joyful we were.
- Become aware of the joy that is inside of us.
- Realize that we are a co-creator with the Universe and that infinite energy and possibilities are available to us.
The energies of our focus throughout the day bring forth those events that resonate with that focus.
Even challenging circumstances take on a lighter, more optimistic outlook when we live in joy of the Divine.
Living in Joy, Reaching Higher Consciousness
As we live in joy we begin to reach a higher consciousness. At the highest levels of consciousness, all energy becomes available. At that point, all of our wishes and desires are in alignment with the Divine. We are able to create with effortless ease and experience the spontaneous fulfillment of our desires.
