Joy.

At the beginning of the year 2020 my focus was on joy. One of my goals for this year was to experience joy, share joy, spread joy, and to spend time exploring joy. To find joy in every day. What a challenge! I didn’t know at that time that we would be spending this year focused on survival and pandemic. We would be learning new ideas like “social distancing” and “shelter in place”.

I see joy as relevant now, even more than it was on January 1, 2020. We know that the more that we can laugh and experience joy, the more likely we are to heal. If we focus just on fear and negative statistics we will see things to fear at every turn. I suggest that we can seek joy and knowledge at the same time. Looking for light in the darkness. We can follow the rules to help with survival of the pandemic without allowing ourselves to be bogged down in it. Sometimes we can heal ourselves by laughing and smiling even when there is nothing to laugh and smile about. Try chanting Ha Ha , sometimes it will turn into a real laugh - raising your mood even if it doesn’t. I can’t sing but here I offer this ha ha chant I hope you’ll join me and may it lift your spirits.