Joy
In this week’s newsletter I’ve been talking about JOY and how fortunate I feel to experience it often, but also deeply.
I take it for granted, because I’m a very silly billy 🤣 and messing around, laughing and having fun is a huge part of my life. However, after I did a bit of research, I realised that joy isn’t something that everyone experiences on the same level.
Turns out that it’s possible for me to experience vast amounts of joy because I’m not closed off to my emotions. I have felt a broad spectrum of them and because I don’t close myself off to difficult emotions, I’m also able to feel the joyous ones too.
Turns out I can get joy from the little things because I have an awareness of them - I’m not too busy and caught up in my own head (which hasn’t always been the case… believe me!). I have access to, and capacity for stillness, which means I can notice when something joyous happens.
Turns out that I have a lot of joy because I give myself permission - I don’t think it’s something that grown ups shouldn’t experience. I get as excited as a kid when I see something that makes me feel joy - that excitability was never conditioned out of me.
For me, joy is part of being alive. It’s something we can experience all the time, even when we’re not in a good place or when we’re dealing with heavy emotions.
So let me ask you…
What does the thought of joy bring up for you?
Do you know what brings you joy?
What makes you feel alive and does this feel the same as joy?
If you were to invite more joy into your life, what would you do, where would you go, who would you see?
For me, personally, my Reiki journey has really helped me expand my capacity for joy. It has helped me to feel my emotions and to find that stillness in my life. It’s no coincidence that I also feel joy in nearly all the Reiki sessions I hold - to me Reiki is love and in many ways, love and joy are one and the same.
I hope that today, you find some place for joy and if you’re in Leeds and want to know more about reiki - you know where I am.