3 Quick Ways to Spark Joy
3 Quick Ways to Spark Joy
“If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.” ~ Carlos Santana
What to do in the times when your inner joy feels a little dim?
Here are three of my favorite ways to spark joy, anywhere and anytime, in seconds.
Joy Spark #1: Gratitude
**Make a list of tiny and/or big things you are grateful for right now.
**Count your blessings and accomplishments and celebrations.
** “As you go through life make this your goal: Watch the donut, not the hole!” (Thank you Burl Ives for that song I grew up with! Did you learn that song as a child?)
**Pause to remember the gift of this moment.
However you practice it, opening to gratitude is a fast track to joy!
Joy Spark #2: Nature
** Go outside and breathe in with all your senses the sky, trees, air, weather that is there right now
** Look outside.
**Look at pictures of nature
** Listen to nature sounds
** Imagine a place in nature you love
Joy Spark #3: Smile
“ Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
** Inner smile meditation is a simple, traditional and transformational practice. To do it just feel your smile and let it spread throughout your body.
**Modern science affirms the value of smiling.Simply smiling changes your inner chemistry reducing stress hormones and increasing healing feel good hormones such as dopamine nd serotonin.
**Smile at others, smile to yourself, smile in the mirror and you create an inner environment of healing and you bring a healing vibe to the world.
What are other ways you like to spark joy that are not dependent on anyone or anything outside of you?
May you carry joy in your heart and may you heal any moment.
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