5 Steps To Experience True Joy & Unlock Your Creative Essence
Have you ever shared something you were truly excited about? Something that was truly inspiring for you? Only to have the other person respond with... meh? Or ever had something wonderful happen to you, something truly brilliant, and you find it difficult to let yourself feel fantastic?
In either case, you need to read this:
Joy is a powerful sign or symptom you’re in alignment with Who-You-Truly-Are. Alignment with your true self means you’re also in alignment with the co-creative flow of the Universe. When Joseph Campbell said ‘follow your bliss’ he was referring to the co-creative flow, because blissful joy is what you feel when you’re in it.
Joy is one of the strongest signs of true health, especially your mental and emotional health. There’s a clear relationship between having a positive outlook on life and your physical health, and the most positive outlook is a joyful one. Your capacity for joy puts a natural limit on how expansively you live your life. Without a capacity for joy, you’ll resist mutually expansive exchanges because such exchanges result in more joy.
Whenever you share joy that triggers more joy for another, or someone else’s joy triggers an increase in your joy, that is a mutually expansive exchange. In order to have this in your life and relationships, however, you’ll need to first increase your capacity for joy. Reading my book, The Soul’s Brain: the Neurology and Logic of Your Intuition (published by Hay House) will teach you all about mutually expansive changes. And to get you started, here are five steps to do help you on your way:
Understanding joy is a choice.
Whereas happiness comes to us from outside, from a perfect day or a perfect cup of coffee, joy comes from the inside. It flows from our connection to Who-We-Truly-Are. It’s easy to understand that getting fit is a choice, because you have to choose to exercise every day, but increasing our capacity for joy is a choice in the same way. Joy is a sign of our emotional fitness; we get there by exercising our joyful self every day. Every time you meditate, focus on joy. Every time you breathe in, tell yourself you’re breathing in joy. Every joyful memory you have, practice feeling that same way for a few minutes every day. That’s how you become emotionally, joyfully fit enough to align to the co-creation of all things.
Who-You-Truly-Are
Remember joy is a product of your alignment to Who-You-Truly-Are. The more you strengthen that alignment the more easily joy will flow through you. Work on your self-acknowledgement, especially acknowledgement of your true self. The more you connect to Who-You-Truly-Are the more easily you’ll expand your capacity for joy.
Joy leads you to co-creation
Just as interdependency is founded on independence, creation is founded on co-creation. In other words, to begin your co-creative journey you first have to gain clarity on what you want to create. From there, you can focus on finding positive alignment with those who find joy in that which is harmonic or supportive of your vision. One simple way of doing this is to focus on the purpose of your creation, as that has more room for alignment with others than the specifics of your creation may have.
All life expands.
The Universe itself is expanding.
Mutually expansive exchange is one of the strongest tools in the evolutionary playbook. When you have a strong capacity for joy it is natural to share it. It is also natural to find your own joy in the joy of others. That is a powerful basis for mutually expansive exchange. One of the best ways to practice mutual expansion is to allow in the love and support of the Universe. When you flow back appreciation to the Universe for the love and support you’ll find even more flows in. That is part of the magic of mutual expansion; with enough flowing in you’ll have an abundance of love and support and will be able to pass it onto others and so expand the cycle of mutual expansion and joy.
Joy is like any other skill
The more you practice and hone your ability the more capacity you’ll have. The only way to get fit is to work on it consistently. The saying ‘little things mean a lot’ could apply to this; it’s been shown that a little work done consistently will take you much further than ‘cramming’ by doing a ton of work only occasionally. I like to think of this as the five minute rule. To apply it to joy, spend five minutes every day focused on joy: do something that gives you joy or allow yourself to soak in joyful memories or plan a bigger joy, such as taking your next holiday. Keep doing this consistently and joy will surely become your new habit.
In life you’re either green and growing or you’re ripe and rotten. You’re either obsessed with avoiding the negative or you’re addicted to embracing the positive.
By choosing joy you’ll ensure you keep yourself on the positive track.
It’s a skill that gives on so many levels.
Check out my book The Soul’s Brain: The Neurology and Logic of Your Intuition!
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About the author Catherine Wilkins:
Dr. Catherine Wilkins author of The Soul's Brain, published by Hay House and a skilled practitioner working at the leading edge of modern psychic healing. Her psychic gifts and a solid medical and metaphysical understanding of illness and the body enables her to work uniquely with healing energies. This means she can go directly to the source of mental or physical ailments, diagnose what underlies it and bring about healing by working both at a spiritual level and practical level.
