The end product of YOUR life is JOY for all the:
Years
Chapters
Experiences
Good
Bad
Trauma
Loss
Friendships
Loves
Children
Family
Not in that order necessarily but JOY comes
From:
KNOW & GROW
There is known a base of how to cultivate the “eight pillars of joy”:
Perspective
Humility,
Humor
Acceptance
Forgiveness
Gratitude
Compassion
Generosity
JOY comes as a combination of the above pillars of joy but
Also from:
Love
Forgiveness
JOY is different for each of us. But this blog is here to help you
Find YOUR JOY.
Again, you can find JOY from someone else, what ever anyone says
Finding YOUR JOY
Only when YOU know SELFhood and all YOUR characteristics
Well you be of JOY
Forgiving SELF and everyone else
Loving SELF and everyone else
You need to have an honest reflection of YOUR life and recognize
how fragile we are, the pain, the suffering as well as the JOY that
YOU can have when YOU let go of all the negatives and embrace
the positives of SELF
Living a better life
Search for a meaningful life
Having a purpose
What Does Life Expect from YOU?
JOY comes from YOUR own insights into SELF and accepting
LOVE and FORGIVENESS which will give YOU JOY
But, it does take self-reflection to SELF and all our
Characteristics
Chapters
Relationships
Family
Friends
Trauma
Love
Loss
To know JOY is to know SELF with everything gone before
JOY comes from:
YOUR actions
Feeling the thoughts that make your feel good
Doing a spring cleaning on YOUR belief system
Get Happy
Be grateful and thankful
Take a leap of faith
Let go as much as possible of negatives and pain
Re-create YOUR LIFE into what YOU want and need.
Here is a list of different ways to get YOUR JOY:
Learn something new
Get out in nature
Volunteer
Count your blessings
Travel
Nurture SELF
Laugh
Smile
Sing out loud
Read a GREAT book
Exercise
Meditate and enjoy silence
Have a mission each day
Get rid of stuff
Watch a sunrise or sunset
Create something
Take a walk in the rain
Let Go and Let GOD
Here are a couple of quotes from my wonderful people:
Find a place inside where there is joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative afford
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken JOY in creative expression and knowledge
Albert Einstein
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves
Buddha
A thing of beauty is a joy forever; it is loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness’
John Keats
Joy is prayer; joy is strength; joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
YOUR joy will be different from anyone else’s JOY because of YOUR uniqueness