How did you do with last weeks challenge? Did you write down a new internal dialog and practice it? Let me know what worked for you. (If this is your first visit check out the link WEEKLY CHALLENGES to the left.)
Now, the language of JOY...
JOY is a very high moving energy. Close your eyes and think about a time in your life where you have been very joyful. Remember the energy that was almost bursting from you. The feeling of JOY is like a bouncy ball. We have all seen what happens when a child tosses a bouncy ball. The ball goes everywhere! It can not be contained!
I can think of at least 6 times in my life where I felt only JOY. #1 was my wedding day. Only JOY. The other 5 were, you guessed it, the births of my 5 miracle babies. In those little delivery rooms, where first breaths were taken and angelic spirits arrived, there was only JOY.
We know how JOY feels.
Let's compare that to anger, tension or fear. Have you ever walked into a room where people have been fighting and you can literally FEEL the tension? The term that comes to mind is "you could cut the tension with a knife." Because anger is an energy, just like JOY, it is palpable and easily felt.
JOY is an energy that I want to share with the people around me!!! What about you? I don't want anger and sadness trailing me. And I certainly don't want my family, who have to live with me, left with tension or anger in the air, plugging up their ability to feel JOY.
To speak the language of JOY is not easy. Misery is all around us. It seems like, in our society, we are always trying to one-up someones story of misery. What if we started talking about JOY? If we started to change the conversations at the water cooler, so to speak.
This weeks challenge- Focus on the language of JOY. Start telling people the things that are going right for you. The feelings of JOY you experienced that day. Start learning the language of JOY. To most of us, it will seem like a foreign language, but practice makes perfect, right? You may also want to right a reminder to your self about this. Put it somewhere you can see it, and start noticing the space you create for JOY.
The new internal dialogue that I have been adding to my collection of positive thoughts is: "I deserve my full attention." I'm not going to busy myself so much that I can not focus on the things I enjoy doing, the inner growth that I need to work on or the relationships with people I love. Basically, I'm putting myself at the top of my priority list. When I focus more on my own joy than I am more able to give the gift of joy to those around me. I love this week's challenge because I can't stand listening to other people one-up each others story of misery.
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