Why Is Feeling Joyful Important?
When you feel joyful you are more capable of practicing mindfulness.
I want to work on choosing the life I most desire to lead. Consciousness creates reality, and I desire to choose the reality that brings me the most joy and happiness.
This can be particularly challenging, especially in today’s society. You are bombarded every day with horrid, awful, ugly, unpleasant things. Terrible people, selfishness, greed, and a deluge of messages about lack and scarcity.
Maybe, if you are truly fortunate, for every ten pieces of negative information you receive one piece of info that’s positive and uplifting.
Because the overarching narrative of society is one of insufficiency and deficiency, it is really important to keep focused on your own mindful awareness. Being mindful of what you are thinking, feeling, and the intent of your actions is key.
One of the issues that this brings up is selfishness. You may have been raised to put others before yourself. That can be family, friends, coworkers, anybody. You believe that the needs of the many always outweigh the needs of the one, and put yourself last.
Or worse, when you do something for yourself you have to resist the feeling that you are being selfish. Or else you do twice as…
