#feeling joy

As I stroll by the stream of quietness and calm,

I cannot help but to notice the little voice in my head that whispers, “be here, now”

I need a personal moment to gush. And I mean really gush. I have been writing from the age of who knows. When I was in college, I decided that I wanted to make that my career. However, I was young, didn't know the dedication it took, and was afraid. So I sabotaged it. Never put anything out because it "wasn't good enough" yadda yadda yadda. Mid-twenties, I quit my job to try again. Again, self-doubt. Self sabotage. So, I tried once more a few years after that. I had a baby at the time and thought I could do it while my son slept. If any of you have children, you know how laughable that is. :) So, I gave up. Just flat out gave up.

During the pandemic, my husband and best friend encouraged me to try something different. I put a few projects in the works, but they failed due to my lifestyle and needing to rely on others to help me create. The Night Market, and in a small way, Paper Lanterns, is the first form of writing that I have put out there with an effort for it to be something more.

We invite you to practice the awareness of joy--being in the vibration, the feeling, the emotion of joy. Your body chemistry will change when you bring an awareness of joy into your moments.

Over time, you will understand that joy is a natural state of being. It is a Vibrational way out of the mass consciousness grid. It is the ladder, the rope, the lifejacket. When you learn to feel, sense, experience joy as the dominant vibration in your life, you are free. When you hold a joy vibration more often than any other emotion, you are in a position of powerful creating. You are in the Divine flow.

We urge you to journey back in time and recall when you were taught to not express your joy. When did you shut down the avenues to your joy? When the events were emotionally painful, you closed down the vibrations of joy/appreciation/gratitude/love and carried the denser vibrations of fear, rejection, and anger. Go back, and bring into memory one of the higher-frequency emotions. Go back and collect your joy, like a game of finding the golden egg.

Life is like you are living in a video game. It is a simulation, or in a dream state, and we are observing you from afar, as if we are a helping friend at the arcade watching you play from behind. What does your character do to feel joy?

A kitten taking a nap on my lap

A tiny sweetness to take away the bitterness

All play, and mischief, and food…

Another duty not even a burden

A surrender to innocence

A surrender to pure joy

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