Present-Focused Joyfulness!

During this season I always attempt to lean into the beauty of intentional action and reflection. While collective and community spirit is abound, there's no lack of information and support out there for anxiety reduction, gift-giving, cooking, and gratitude cultivation (and the list goes on) This post is about the one thing you need in order to maximize and fully drink in the power of connection: present-mindedness.

I offer you guidance in how to really dig into the magnificence around you, so that every moment you encounter can be wholly received. Often, we are passengers to our own lives just hurrying through with a task list. This is no way to live joyfully, rather, we live to accomplish versus living for the joy of living. It's not about doing, it's about being. Consider this quote, "If I chase it, I separate into the chaser and the chased. If I am it, I am it and nothing else." -John Lilly.

Whatever this holiday season brings you, allow it to be fully experienced in the present-moment- the only place where we have absolute freedom and liberation. Thich Nhat Hanh says: "Without thinking or talking, there is no obstacle to get in the way of enjoyment of the present moment." What might you want to set aside now, in order to be fully here to receive joy?

Consider these ways to dive into your special free place in this very moment:

Think, "I say yes to this moment, my soul has chosen it."
Question, "How can I surrender even more to this moment?"
Use all of your 5 senses at the same time.
Observe magic in the wind, the trees and animals.
Close your eyes and sense your own heart beating.
Really look deeply into the eyes of another when they talk.
Feel your breath filling a full, expansive, free belly.
Sense warmth and openness in your heart, consciously open it with thought and visualization.
Love, I mean really love, other people in the moment with everything you've got.

Joyfulness is never an "if only" or "when I get here" thing. Joyfulness is not a destination, it is a cultivated lifestyle despite external circumstances. Joyfulness is abundant, available and free. Is it not out of your reach at all. If it feels like it is, call it back to you with focus, using the steps above and with determination that this life is meant for joy. You and only you has the power to make that happen. "This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always." -Byron Katie.

With love, Candice

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