Be Joyful! You Can Do It!

Do you feel joy­ful? Are you “in-Joy-ing” your life? You can man­i­fest joy on a daily basis if you decide to do it. But let’s take a few moments to talk about what joy is.

Let’s get seri­ous about being joy­ful

Joy is the ecsta­tic feel­ing of life cours­ing through your being unhin­dered. It is a brother to inspi­ra­tion, the fill­ing of the body with spirit, the flow of divine energy through nature. Peo­ple feel this inflow as inspi­ra­tion, and its pres­ence as joy. Think about the times when you’ve felt the most joy and I know a smile will emerge from the depths of your being.

Joy is a feel­ing of light­ness, exul­ta­tion and expan­sion. It involves a reach­ing out­ward for life in a thank­ful embrace. Joy is felt and expressed through smiles, laughs, tin­gles, desire, and grat­i­tude. It is com­plete accep­tance of what is. Joy is an ener­gized ease with your life. It can­not be attained but is real­ized when the world falls away and we are immersed in the moment. Some­times this arises nat­u­rally and at oth­ers, the hard work of per­sonal dis­cov­ery and growth has opened the way for it to come in.

Joy is fleet­ing for many of us. Often, it comes and goes before we real­ize it was there. For many peo­ple, joy is a sort of brief but intense hap­pi­ness that hits us when we’re hav­ing fun or feel­ing par­tic­u­larly con­nected to some­one or some­thing. We feel joy when embraced by a loved one, open­ing a gift, or rid­ing a roller coaster. Joy can become a stronger and more last­ing pres­ence in our daily lives with a con­scious and com­mit­ted effort. To be con­tin­u­ously joy­ous, we need to know that things are right even when they are wrong. Joy thrives when faith in our­selves, and espe­cially in some­thing greater than our­selves, is strong. We can have pain and dif­fi­culty in our lives and still have an under­ly­ing sense of joy in know­ing that our life is exactly where and how it should be.

When we focus on liv­ing in the present moment and learn to free our­selves from inter­nal and exter­nal expec­ta­tions, judg­ments and future plans, we open the door to fun, frolic, humor and joy. When the fresh­ness of our per­spec­tive on life enables every moment to become a sur­prise, every­day is like a hol­i­day (holy-day). Noth­ing is old or expected, and every­thing is new.

Hav­ing fun and feel­ing joy is depen­dent on adopt­ing a per­spec­tive that seeks it. So much of what we feel, arises based on our sub­jec­tive inter­pre­ta­tions of life. We are the Direc­tors of our own per­sonal movies. Though we may not have con­trol over the stage or the scene, we alone gov­ern our per­sonal per­spec­tives and responses to life’s cir­cum­stances. The more seri­ously we take our­selves and the world around us, the less easy it is to see the humor in the most ordi­nary. I am not say­ing that we should dis­re­gard the pro­found sacred­ness and mean­ing of life or the impor­tance of per­sonal expe­ri­ence. Instead, I am empha­siz­ing that we should cel­e­brate it! To cel­e­brate is to be enjoy­ing (in-JOY-ing) your life. The most intensely alive per­son embraces all things so openly that life’s bound­less energy flows flu­idly through every­thing he or she does. Be joy­ful! It is within your power, within your grasp. You can do it! Love your­self, have faith, let go and BE IN JOY!

Do you feel joy­ful? Are you “in-Joy-ing” your life? You can man­i­fest joy on a daily basis if you decide to do it. But let’s take a few moments to talk about what joy is.  Let’s get seri­ous about being joy­ful

Joy is the ecsta­tic feel­ing of life cours­ing through your being unhin­dered. It is a brother to inspi­ra­tion, the fill­ing of the body with spirit, the flow of divine energy through nature. Peo­ple feel this inflow as inspi­ra­tion, and its pres­ence as joy. Think about the times when you’ve felt the most joy and I know a smile will emerge from the depths of your being.

Joy is a feel­ing of light­ness, exul­ta­tion and expan­sion. It involves a reach­ing out­ward for life in a thank­ful embrace. Joy is felt and expressed through smiles, laughs, tin­gles, desire, and grat­i­tude. It is com­plete accep­tance of what is. Joy is an ener­gized ease with your life. It can­not be attained but is real­ized when the world falls away and we are immersed in the moment. Some­times this arises nat­u­rally and at oth­ers, the hard work of per­sonal dis­cov­ery and growth has opened the way for it to come in.

Joy is fleet­ing for many of us. Often, it comes and goes before we real­ize it was there. For many peo­ple, joy is a sort of brief but intense hap­pi­ness that hits us when we’re hav­ing fun or feel­ing par­tic­u­larly con­nected to some­one or some­thing. We feel joy when embraced by a loved one, open­ing a gift, or rid­ing a roller coaster. Joy can become a stronger and more last­ing pres­ence in our daily lives with a con­scious and com­mit­ted effort. To be con­tin­u­ously joy­ous, we need to know that things are right even when they are wrong. Joy thrives when faith in our­selves, and espe­cially in some­thing greater than our­selves, is strong. We can have pain and dif­fi­culty in our lives and still have an under­ly­ing sense of joy in know­ing that our life is exactly where and how it should be.

When we focus on liv­ing in the present moment and learn to free our­selves from inter­nal and exter­nal expec­ta­tions, judg­ments and future plans, we open the door to fun, frolic, humor and joy. When the fresh­ness of our per­spec­tive on life enables every moment to become a sur­prise, every­day is like a hol­i­day (holy-day). Noth­ing is old or expected, and every­thing is new.
Hav­ing fun and feel­ing joy is depen­dent on adopt­ing a per­spec­tive that seeks it. So much of what we feel, arises based on our sub­jec­tive inter­pre­ta­tions of life. We are the Direc­tors of our own per­sonal movies. Though we may not have con­trol over the stage or the scene, we alone gov­ern our per­sonal per­spec­tives and responses to life’s cir­cum­stances. The more seri­ously we take our­selves and the world around us, the less easy it is to see the humor in the most ordi­nary. I am not say­ing that we should dis­re­gard the pro­found sacred­ness and mean­ing of life or the impor­tance of per­sonal expe­ri­ence. Instead, I am empha­siz­ing that we should cel­e­brate it! To cel­e­brate is to be enjoy­ing (in-JOY-ing) your life. The most intensely alive per­son embraces all things so openly that life’s bound­less energy flows flu­idly through every­thing he or she does. Be joy­ful! It is within your power, within your grasp. You can do it! Love your­self, have faith, let go and BE IN JOY!

16 Responses

1. Susan says:

   February 25, 2012 at 8:37 am

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2. jeffthibodeau says:

   February 25, 2012 at 9:35 am

   Thanks Susan.…feeling joy­ful is pretty cool! Happy day to you.…JT

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3. Suzie Palmer says:

   February 26, 2012 at 1:47 am

   Love this!!
   Won­der­ful see­ing and in-joy-ing the true mean­ing of holi-days!! Glo­ri­ous xox

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