I feel called to say joy is no small thing to choose to focus on and for me requires great commitment. Six years ago I noticed how trauma/ healing occupied much of my time (not uncommon for empaths) and I developed a joy practice naming 10 things each day I enjoyed. It was sooooo hard. Almost each day was sun on skin, breeze, birds, etc. was so hard to find anything to enjoy. I still do the practice now and much easier, so much more to enjoy that I notice.
With all the trauma floating around now, joy may feels like a foreign universe which makes it even more vital to me. Trust me, I must really concentrate to keep my focus on what I enjoy but finding so much. And had to slow down so much and cut out so much. Luckily I spent years learning to see abundance as something that just is. I live a simple life and thus do not require much income which is a huge burden off. Darlings, I encourage each of us to discover what we enjoy and do wayyyy more of it and wayyy less of what flips us out. Our bodies tell us moment to moment whether our attention is stirring up trauma, fear or peace/ love/ joy. Choose again if necessary. Right now I need to slow down even more and go into the silence, reset. Moving too fast.
Right now I’m feeling so extraordinarily blessed and grateful that I am able to create a life with so much stillness, so many pauses, so much silence. I am so grateful that I am able to take care of this one in a way that serves me and that money is not forcing me to do things I don’t want. I’m almost in tears in fact I am in tears with gratitude. I feel so profoundly how money has enslaved us.
