There is always joy about. You must seek it out. With the negativity around, rather unstable conditions and lots of disturbance in the world, it seems that joy is not present. I want to challenge that for your attitude is key to finding it. How do I know? Let me share whats happening for me and despite the instability of my personal world, joy is abundant.
I just came back from a wonderful adventure to visit my best friend in NH, right into my Masters Class for which I graduate from this June! Despite a harrowing 3 years of life after leaving my "oh so magical" farm, going through a divorce and making ends meet with all kinds of odd jobs, I still have joy daily! I even get to adventure and complete a high study that sings my heart. I build in these lovelinesses, so I can nourish myself as I go through such a discombobulated life transition.
I live in a studio above a vet that consists of 3 rooms after living on 28 acres! I am recreating everything in my life from my career, friendships, routines, and just how I live in the world. I have had more odd jobs than most I know in this 3 years which requires flexibility, flowing and go getting just to live on the tiniest shoe string. This creates many irons in the fire to make it in the most minimalist way, so order, routine and stability are not words that describe my life.
Most would say, "How can you be happy or find joy in such an unsettled existence?" As I still await to find if I have anything accumulated in the "ways of this world" from my marriage and very little of my old life of 26 year exists other than my writing, I don't choose to judge circumstances as others would. Yes, not what most would call easy, stable and in fact most would call "scary as hell!" I share this so you see exactly what I am dealing with and yet I have a joyful, enjoyable life daily!!!
I consider myself a master at having joy in life. It is truly an attitude and an inner state. It requires great imagination and cleverness but it is possible. It is truly an inner way of existing that flows out to all I engage in. I consider life to be a game, an adventure of sorts that we walk through and gain through laughter and relaxation. I laugh alot, mostly at myself and the conditions I have to manage in, after a very wonderful life playing in the gardens all day. I see beauty in most all things and am a queen at making the most of things.
I don't find myself different than others, just much less serious and make all an art of play. The yoga of living it is called, truly finding presence and magic in the moments as they come. Living on the edge, there is not many of the usual things to count on, consider as regular or normal to this current rhythm. Yet the inner attitude is happy to be alive, make each day count in the plethora of stimulation and find love and laughter. Truly it is how I survive.
I have had to give up so many judgments on life and what the world is supposed to be. I have been actually a failure at what the world calls success in this current transition yet I am lighter and more filled with pleasure than ever in my life. I go as I do. I fill up with the simple things, I make time for myself, my loves, my spiritual study and like magic, adventures, invitations, gifts and great fun comes along. It is truly a magical experience I am living despite the outer conditions.
I encourage you all to make the very most out of whatever it is in your life. I admit I have been trained and continue to get educated by great masters in the art of living and that learning has afforded me views that inspire my moments to be filled with vitality and aliveness. That is why I teach for these ways of being do enhance even the worst conditions. More than anything, cultivating a real, deep gratitude for you blessings is truly how you live in the moment. You make the most of things, for what else are you going to do?
There is no room for pity parties other than for a moment, negative thinking or doubt. If I had them I would surely crumble into a great abyss so I find I can't afford them anymore than a new car! It has sharpened my vision as to what truly brings in self nourishing, happiness, fun and joy for myself. It has been deliciously rewarding for this crazy time will pass. When I do get to the other side and have my greater calling, a more reasonable living style and stability, I will look back at this time as the greatest spirit or soul making opportunity I have had.
It is easy to be happy when you get what you want, can go buy what you want or control or manipulate things into the picture you want. Happiness is temporary when you get it from the outside. When you cultivate this attitude to truly enjoy living not matter what the day brings, you have gained the pearl of great price. In chaos, disaster, disappointment, lack, rejection, failure is the truth of the blessings. When you can make that work for you, laugh at it all, find the silver lining to things, then you become master of your life.
This is what I am going for and I invite you to consider making the most out of what ever occurs too. It is the great adventure that offers gifts beyond what you can imagine. Using all for your UP liftment! Inspiring others as you do, creating enthusiasm where there is none, laughing along the way and relaxing into the fact that this all is life and it is worth taking the chance that all will turn in the next day.
Make the most of whatever you are handed! It is the way to embrace this great adventure! The yoga of living true to the joy that flows from within.
Beauty and Grace through Pleasure and Play
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Lyn Hicks, Health and Beauty Coach, Published Author, Educator and Event Coordinator
at The Room At Meadowbrook in Ottsville, PA.
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