Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Capturing Your JOY

In day 5's message, which was 3 days ago because 3 days=1, I wrote about FEELING INTO GRATITUDE. Gratitude leads to appreciation which then leaspring smileds into duplication. What we are duplicating is JOY because having more joy attracts more love: love for yourself, others, and the world.      

Love is the highest frequency at 1000 decibels, followed by JOY and Peace. This is why the intention of my Lotus Mudra Meditation is to bring you more LOVE, PEACE, AND JOY. I want you to capture your joy because you are better in all areas and can create that ripple effect that transforms the world. You will give and RECEIVE more. In JOY you will find gratitude, appreciation, and produce duplication, dreams, and decisions. All the right words will flow from your heart to your lips at all the right time.

When my brother had his baby last week, he wrote he wanted to capture the moment because he was overwhelmed with joy.  
 
"Joy is a funny word. It's not like the word HAPPY because the Y doesn't make the sound of a smile...(the e in cheese). The Y in JOY is silent and it really portrays the emotion well because having lots of Joy makes you want to explode silently, at least that's what it is doing to me right now, and to not explode you have to let it out. I thought about dancing but Grace would think I went Crazy if she woke up to see me dancing in the dark to no music."   

I wish for you to connect to your JOY, whether is be a child, pet, experience...there is no right or wrong, it's your JOY. Capture it and recapture it consistently because we are what we consistently do. Your brain will forget unless its re-inforced with ANCHORS and within 3 days. Incorporate to your senses with a picture, writing, song, smell or ritual. If you want to get there faster, do it daily. (Get that list of gratitude you wrote on day 5 and and re-read it before you go to bed tonight!)    

Here are ways to re-capture your joy:  
*Find pictures of when you are really happy and post it  
As a screen saver on your computer, phone, or carry it with you. You can have different pictures scattered everywhere.   

*On your calendar schedule it in and make it repeat every day/week.  
Every Sunday at 9am my calendar tells me "It's Sunday Funday. You can do, be and have whatever you dream! You are the luckiest person in the world."

*Make a playlist of songs you love.  
Use it when you are getting ready or listen to it when you are driving to or from work. Add a little dancing to it!  

*Write down your joy in whatever language/way you need. Release the idea that it must be perfect in grammer, etc...you are not submitting it for a contest! Remember its your JOY!    cosmo and bridge

*Make daily or weekly rituals.  
I love bridges because recently I connected that it symbolically represents freedom for me. It tells me I've crossed over, it reminds me no matter how scared I am of falling, I'm supported. I cross over a bridge everyday to work and I make a wish when I cross it and I'm so happy. Every week Cosmo, my dog and I walk/run across 3 bridges from my house to downtown Denver. I don't know why it brings me so much joy but it does.    

At first when you do these things you WILL feel SILLY. I promise you if you try it for one month, you'll start to feel a subtle shift and you won't care. Your mindset will begin to open to see blessings and opportunities. You'll want it for others like my brother did when he wrote his post. Here is his blessing to you for this year:  
     
"May this year reveal all the blessings of your life and that you notice what keeps you up because it feels you with so much JOY. May that joy change you and grow you for this year and many years to come. May in the end you look like my baby after the cleaning and shine as bright.