Rediscover Who You Are
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Create a "What I Enjoy" List
As simple as this may sound, it is very important for you to make one. This list should include everything that brings you pleasure and passion in life.
If you aren't sure what brings you joy right now, think back to what used to bring you joy?
This may require some exploration, but what did you do when you were a little kid that brought a smile on your face? Did you used to go horseback riding? Walk outside in a garden?
Whatever it may be, write it down.
This list doesn't mean that you have to do them every day. It's just to make you aware that there are things in the world that do make you feel alive. If you are able to do something you enjoy at least once a week, do it and help yourself feel alive in that moment.
You have to behave the way you want to feel before you feel the way you are behaving! It's about opening yourself up to a new experience, or something that you stopped doing.
Try to rediscover what it feels like to look or feel differently from the "not enoughness" you have been putting into your head for a long time now.
When you start doing this you will launch yourself back into aliveness!
Now some of myJoys to the World List:
1.Travel
2. My Moon Garden
3. The Color Purple; Seven Pounds; The Curious Life & Times of Benjamin Button /Divine Secrets of The Ya Ya Sisterhood movies
4.j.California Cooper/Tina McElroy Ansa/ Alice Walker books
5. Good perfumes and perfumed candles
6. Laughter
7. Home decorating
8.Creating art;writing;dance
9.Beautiful jewelry
10. Reading
11. Spending time with people I care about.
12 Shopping at antique stores, thrifts & yard sales.
13. Collecting recipes.
14. Clear nights seeing the stars & the Moon
15 Early mornings
16. Good conversations
17 Smoked oysters on crackers with cream cheese and wine.
18. Cream white Calla lillies, French tulips ;hydragneas', spider zinnias, fushias, irises & impatients
19. Slupees & crunchy Cheetoes
20. Mexican food.
21. Change.
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I so love this exerpt. So now I have to see my own Joy List...
Create a "What I Enjoy" List
As simple as this may sound, it is very important for you to make one. This list should include everything that brings you pleasure and passion in life.
If you aren't sure what brings you joy right now, think back to what used to bring you joy?
This may require some exploration, but what did you do when you were a little kid that brought a smile on your face? Did you used to go horseback riding? Walk outside in a garden?
Whatever it may be, write it down.
This list doesn't mean that you have to do them every day. It's just to make you aware that there are things in the world that do make you feel alive. If you are able to do something you enjoy at least once a week, do it and help yourself feel alive in that moment.
You have to behave the way you want to feel before you feel the way you are behaving! It's about opening yourself up to a new experience, or something that you stopped doing.
Try to rediscover what it feels like to look or feel differently from the "not enoughness" you have been putting into your head for a long time now.
When you start doing this you will launch yourself back into aliveness!
Now some of myJoys to the World List:
1.Travel
2. My Moon Garden
3. The Color Purple; Seven Pounds; The Curious Life & Times of Benjamin Button /Divine Secrets of The Ya Ya Sisterhood movies
4.j.California Cooper/Tina McElroy Ansa/ Alice Walker books
5. Good perfumes and perfumed candles
6. Laughter
7. Home decorating
8.Creating art;writing;dance
9.Beautiful jewelry
10. Reading
11. Spending time with people I care about.
12 Shopping at antique stores, thrifts & yard sales.
13. Collecting recipes.
14. Clear nights seeing the stars & the Moon
15 Early mornings
16. Good conversations
17 Smoked oysters on crackers with cream cheese and wine.
18. Cream white Calla lillies, French tulips ;hydragneas', spider zinnias, fushias, irises & impatients
19. Slupees & crunchy Cheetoes
20. Mexican food.
21. Change.
1 comment:
What a wonderful idea to have a "joy" list...kinda like counting one's blessing! That's such a healthy thing to do, especially in such times where it seems negativity is the order of the day. I'm going to make my own list and put on my blog as well :)
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