21 WAYS TO FIND JOY (this is from carolmj)
21 Ways to Bring Joy into Your Life
1. Spend time with children, puppies, kittens (the young) (there are children everywhere).
2. Discover something refreshing (or surprising, positive person/people, something new or different every week).
3. Feel your body, get a massage, a seaweed wrap, go dancing, something where you feel skin (you are a miracle of life).
4. Read a novel (fiction, stories, magazines things that are entertaining and interactive, not the usual self-improvement stuff). Yes!
5. Travel, take a vacation, tour a sightseeing spot local or far away, go fishing, camping, take a different route to work, just you and the road (any distance).
6. Look for smiles in people’s faces (on the street and on TV).
7. Write thank you notes (this sounds stressful to me, though thanking god all the time i do anytime anything good happens, i say thank you jesus. (to yourself too).
8. Create a rhythm for your daily life, routines will save your life, it makes it so you don't have to think about what you do, it will just happen, just like a gift, train your brain (simple things will do).
9. Exercise (in a way that makes you smile).
10. Help someone, saving living things should be the theme of your daily life, did you save a life today? a plant, animal, toad, flower, tree, make a difference (with something you enjoy doing).
11. Find a color that makes you feel good (and wear it).
12. Enjoy your spiritual practice and fellowship (the thrift stores, the dinners and breakfasts, the cake sales, the grills, the carnivals and all that money goes to even greater things! support your church! support alllll the churches through fellowship). Read bible commentaries, how can you understand the bible if you don't read bible commentaries, it makes all the difference!(Enjoy!)
13. Spend time with nature (plants and pets are nature, the ocean is nature, fishing is nature). (YES)
14. Do something creative alllll the time, (just for yourself).
15. Accept help from people (strangers, too).
16. Learn something new. (What have you always wanted to learn?)
17. Listen to music (and let your body move along).
18. Walk barefoot, especially on the sand by the beach, it will exercise EVERY MUSCLE in your body (slowly).
19. Savor simple pleasures. (What’s that?)
20. Give yourself a break (in every sense of the word).
21. When you have a choice, choose joy.
Also know that once you decide to allow joy back into your life, joy will show you the way.
Replies
Yes maam! I read this on Carols journal! It\'s awesome innit?? xoxo
yeah, i\'m going to forward it through the groups. wonder if it would work as a game, like on the 40 random questions. 21 random questions
Thanks for reminding us that we can choose joy. We have the power!
I\'m so glad to see it being spread far & wide. It really can be life changing!
Good advice!
Good stuff here! *HUGS*
Great....and sooo true!!