It is a great joy to love and be loved!

Our precious, loving connections are so important!

Take a few conscious breaths
and breathe into your heart space,
breathe into where you can feel
the abundance of your love.

Bring to mind people you love,
and let your breath fan the living flame
of love in your heart.

Feel your loving connection to each
of those people that you love.

There is a tangible essence to these connections;
feel for the substance of each
loving connection in your heart.

And notice how the love is flowing
through the exchange of giving and receiving love.

Notice the love that you feel from these loving connections.

And now, bring to mind animals and pets
that you love, whether they are still alive or not.

And let your breathing take you deeper
into your heart space.

And feel for the joy flowing with each breath,
as you feel these loving connections.

You can visualize all the many things
you love about Mother Earth, Mother Nature,
her magnificence and her beauty.

And as you breathe the air that keeps you alive,
feel your loving connection to Mother Earth.

Feel your body. Breathe into your body.
Feel your loving connection to your own body.
Feel the pure joy of just feeling your body.

Breathe deeper into your heart and let your breath
take you deep into your heart space.
And feel all of these loving connections
get stronger, more clarified, and illuminated.

This is a deep healing for your heart,
for your heart chakra, for your whole being.

You can reach out today to the people you love and care about;
tell them what you appreciate about them, how much they mean to you,
why you’re grateful they are in your life.

And see how much joy you bring to them,
and to yourself!

Tell your pets how much joy they bring to you!
Talk to your plants, walk in nature, hug a tree,
tell the plants and flowers how beautiful they are!
Acknowledge Mother Nature for her beauty
and her loving, life-sustaining abundance.

You can speak your love to the sky, to the sun,
to the clouds, to the moon, to the stars.
You can speak to your guides, to the angels, to Source,
and to whoever and whatever you choose.

It brings us so much joy and feels so good
to express our gratitude and to acknowledge
all that is good, beautiful, joyous,
and truly precious in our lives.

Experience how good and joyful you feel
as you express and share
your beautiful love.

And you can keep noticing how your heart feels
as you deepen your loving connections today
and breathe more love into the world.

Wishing you so much joy, happiness,
and love, now and always!

A Taste Of Joy

Let’s start by taking a few deep breaths
and feel your body.

Bring more awareness to how you feel in this moment.

Make yourself comfortable.

As you keep breathing,
feel your connection to Mother Earth,
notice the feeling of your body breathing,
in and out.

Meet yourself in this moment
with curiosity,
and gentleness,
and kindness.

Only you know who you really are.
Only you know everything you’ve been through.
Only you can give this moment to yourself.

We all have so much going on in our lives
and we all have so much going on within us.

Can you allow yourself
to rest into this moment?

Just for a few moments?

Giving this little bit of time to yourself
is a beautiful gift you give yourself.
And everyone around you benefits as well.

Take three slow, deeper breaths,
feeling your body, and
just being with yourself.

What are you feeling?

No need to try to change anything
going on within you.
Let it all be there.
Just let it be.

See if you can find a little spaciousness
in this present moment,
without trying to change anything.

What does it feel like to explore
a little spaciousness in this moment?

Into this little bit of spaciousness,
remember a time when you were a small child
doing something you really loved to do.
Let yourself focus on all the wonderful things
you were feeling, as you remember many details
of this happy, carefree, joy-filled experience.

What does it feel like to remember this happy memory?

Feel your body feeling those feelings right now.

As you activate this memory
of a time you felt a lot of happiness and pure joy,
notice that you can feel those feelings
right now, right here, in your body.

Notice in detail,
“How are you feeling?”

Bring a big smile to your face.

Keep being with these feelings,
aware of your breathing,
as you feel your body remembering
the feelings of carefree joy and happiness.

These moments and this taste of joy
activates ripples of positive high frequency vibrations
in your body, which naturally and all by themselves,
flow into the field around you.

As you feel joy and happiness,
everyone benefits.

Share your joy, give a smile, offer a hug,
hold someone while they cry.

Everyone wants to feel better and be happy.

These joyful feelings you have accessed
within your awareness will naturally radiate
all around you as you feel them
flowing through you.

And you can choose to access, activate, and experience these feelings,
now that you have rediscovered this taste of joy
right here within you.

May all beings be at peace, 
May all beings be healthy,
May all beings be happy
and content with themselves.

Much love and joy to you!

Joy and Sharing

Let’s begin by taking a few deep breaths.

Feel your body.

Make yourself comfortable.

And for these few precious moments,
allow yourself to let go.

Feel your connection to Mother Earth.

Keep being aware of your breath and your body.

Feel for a little quietness within you,
as you also notice sounds around you.

Joy and sharing;
feel into what that means for you.

Perhaps it could be
sharing time with someone you love,
sharing a meal, offering food,
or maybe the joy of cooking together,
sharing laughter and stories,
making someone smile or laugh out loud.

The joy of sharing a walk,
pointing out a beautiful flower,
or a magnificent, colorful sunset,
and sharing the beauty of the moment.

The joy of doing a project together,
sharing the challenges, discovering new opportunities,
asking for help and being supported.

Asking for help is sharing yourself in a tender,
vulnerable, and open way.

The joy of playing with your dog,
or cat, or other pets and loving them.

The joy of sharing a dance with a friend,
or with a group of people you don’t even know,
or dancing alone with yourself.

Playing sports together,
if that’s something you enjoy,
or any kind of games you love.

The joy of being creative, painting,
coloring, writing a poem, or a song
and sharing it with someone.

The joy of sharing music with someone,
holding their hand and
just being together.

The joy of giving, the joy of loving,
the joy of sharing yourself in any way
you choose.

You have choice and you have freedom.
You have the infinite power of love within you.

You are an infinite being of pure love,
radiating the most beautiful light!

Much love and joy to you!

Let’s be curious, like a little child.

What does joy really feel like?

For some of us, it’s easy to feel joy,
and for some, it’s not.

For some of us, it’s easier to feel
gratitude, appreciation, happiness, love, and peace,
but not specifically to feel joy.

For others, joy is easily accessible,
but not love or peace, and so on.

What is the difference between all of these
important, powerful, high-frequency feelings?

We know when we feel each one,
we can feel the difference.

Let’s explore and investigate a little more together.

Take a few deep breaths,
relaxing and letting go as you exhale.

Feel your body
and settle into the present moment.

Bring to mind something you are grateful for
and feel the feeling of gratitude.

Notice what gratitude feels like to you.

Bring to mind something that you appreciate
and feel the feeling of appreciation.

Notice what appreciation feels like.

Bring to mind something that makes you feel happy, or makes you laugh,
and feel the feeling of happiness.

And notice what happiness feels like to you
right now.

Bring to mind someone you love
and feel the feeling of love.

Feel deeply into the presence of love within you.

Now bring to mind something that makes you feel joyful. 
Feel within you for joy.

Notice what joy feels like.
Just joy.

Joy often slips in among many other feelings.

And of course, it’s wonderful to feel
all of these together.

Keep being curious about all that you can feel.
It’s a grand adventure.

Because as we become more familiar
with the unique vibration of each feeling,
we enhance and elevate our entire experience of being alive.

Miraculous things happen within us,
and we cultivate greater awareness
of ourselves as eternal beings of infinite love.

You are an eternal being of infinite love
and you deserve to feel overflowing limitless joy.

Open and allow yourself to discover for yourself
what a divine and exquisite journey it is to feel
into the vibrations of pure joy within you.

And discover what happens when you choose to feel
joy and gratitude,
appreciation and happiness,
peace and love, all together.

Wishing you much joy and happiness today and always,
no matter what else is going on within you or around you.

Much love.

Joy and The Power of Your Focus

When you choose to feel for joy,
you activate, strengthen, and cultivate
the vibration of joy.

And that is, of course, true for whatever you focus on.

Your attention is extremely powerful!
Your life force energy goes and flows
to wherever your attention goes.

That’s why everything and everyone in the world
is clamoring for your attention and doing everything
and anything to get it and keep it.

It’s up to you, and each of us, 
to reclaim our attention and our freedom.

We are each so very much more powerful than we understand.

This is no small matter.

Where you place your attention, your focus, and your awareness
guides your whole life.

As you maintain sovereignty of your focus and attention,
you become proficient at bringing and keeping
your awareness in the always present now.

And as you begin to more consciously choose where you place your attention,
you will feel, have, and experience
more of what you want to feel, have, and experience.

Our attention is a superpower.
But we are so distracted and bombarded in the momentum of our daily lives,
that most of us miss this fact, and the potential it has to uplift
our lives beyond our wildest dreams.

Three things for you to help develop Conscious Awareness:

1. Conscious breathing. Be attentive to your breath.
You can always come back to the present moment by noticing your breath.

2. Feel your body, feel your heart space.

3. Be aware of your choice of focus in the moment.
What are you paying attention to? Because your focus is unlimited.

And these three things are always available.

For these 7 Days of Joy, add a fourth step
and focus some of your awareness on Joy.

Notice what simple, innocent joy feels like.

Stop frequently throughout the day
and look for what brings you joy
in the present moment.

In each moment that you feel for joy,
you build your capacity to access and experience more joy,
like building muscles or getting better at anything you practice.

The power to focus our attention – Conscious Attention –
is perhaps our greatest and most powerful gift and ability.

It is ready and available, just waiting to take us
to the next level of awakened higher consciousness.

It is up to us.

It is our choice:
what we focus on, what we listen to, what we pay attention to,
what we look at, who we listen to, who we follow,
what we see, our perspective, our beliefs,
how we see the world, how we see ourselves, how we see each other,
and much, much more.

If you don’t know where to focus your attention,
focus on not knowing.

And enjoy that.

Wishing you much, much joy and happiness
today and always.

It takes a lot of courage these days
to choose to be joyful.

People everywhere are experiencing so much pain and suffering,
and there are so many dysfunctional things happening in our world.

To intercept the waves of low-frequency negativity
flowing around and affecting us,
it takes courage and determination.

But we are the changemakers.

We bring smiles to people who look sad
and hugs to those we can.

And we emanate positive high frequencies into our world.

We choose love, and we focus on love.

We feel for peace within us,
and we radiate our healing light.

And now we’re choosing to focus a little more specifically
on the vibration of joy.

We want to bring as much happiness to as many people, animals, plants,
and the world as we can.

Explore what feels authentically joyful for you.

Maybe just smile at someone
and see if they smile back,
or tell a joke,
give a small gift.
Send someone a loving and encouraging message.

Do something kind and caring for a friend
or someone you don’t know well.

Spend extra time with your pets,
care for your plants,
work in your garden.

Make space to do kind, loving,
and joyful things for yourself.

In each present moment, you can find joy.

Keep some of your awareness on the lookout
for the positive perspective in each moment,
and see if you can experience a little more joy.

The more joy you feel,
the more joy you vibrate and activate.

You create joyful energies all around you.

And you will start to bring that joyful feeling
to all kinds of things in your life.

Be curious.

Feel the joy of taking a deep breath.

Feel the joy of just being alive in your body.

Take a moment and look around you.
Find something that brings you joy right now.

Mother Earth and The Equinox

Everywhere on this beautiful planet,
our Mother Earth,
we all experience the same balance of day and night
on the Equinox.

The Equinox is the only time this happens,
and it only happens twice a year.

For a few days around the Equinox, we will all experience
this equal balance of daylight and nighttime
as one global humanity.

And it’s a time to feel more deeply
into our connection with Mother Earth.

For each one of us, our very life depends on Mother Earth.

The food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe,
what we build our homes with, what we make our clothes out of,
and the fire we use in countless ways to power our lives.

Each and every one of us was born naked
without anything at all.

Take some time to honor Mother Earth today.

Consider for a moment, where does your food really come from?
Where does the water you drink really come from?
Can you live without breathing air?

Right now is an opportunity to humbly
give thanks for what truly supports us in being alive,
the Earth we walk and live upon.

Mother Earth, we walk upon you,
surrounded by your beauty and your majesty.

All the food we eat grows from your soil.

It is your waters that flow and bring life to our bodies,
and fertilize the seeds that grow in your soil.

Your overflowing abundance feeds every creature
that lives here on this planet.

We are blessed by your beauty.

We are soothed in your forests.

We are nourished by your abundance.

We bathe in your water.

We breathe the air that flows in your bright blue skies,
and through the dark starry nights,
flowing over your magnificent oceans,
through the deserts of sparkling sand,
over towering mountains, and through valleys and meadows,
filled sometimes with flowers, and sometimes with snow.

This air, this wind, this breeze,
how honored we are to breathe
this glorious life-giving air
flowing through your skies.

And how stunning and glorious you are
in your intimate dance with the sun.

How magnificent to behold
the way sunlight sparkles upon you,
upon your waters,
on snow and on ice,
and on your bright green leaves.

How can there be so many glorious shades of green?

How can water take so many different wondrous forms?

And where does your gift of fire come from?
Fire bursts forth out of nothing, it has no substance,
and it is incredibly, intensely powerful.

Mother Earth, how can you turn so precisely,
so constantly, so evenly, year after year,
for millions of years, as you so gently offer
all parts of your surface to be bathed and blessed
in the glorious light of the sun?

Beloved Mother Earth, forgive us for taking you for granted.

Forgive us for being so
distracted,
misguided,
and elsewhere obsessed.

Forgive us for abusing you, misusing you,
and destroying so much of you.

Truly, it is our loss.

Mother Earth, I am so grateful to have the opportunity
to honor you, most beautiful mother.

Your beauty fills my heart to overflowing.

Your soil grounds my body.

Your air fills me with peace
and enhances my life as I breathe.

Your water brings life, and beauty, and happiness to me
in each and every part of my body, my heart,
and the whole of my being, 
in countless infinite ways.

Your fire is a miracle
manifesting out of emptiness.

What would our lives be without fire?

As I sit quietly with you, Mother Earth,
I feel you in my body.
I feel you in every way I am capable of feeling,
in the whole of my being.

And as I feel the presence of you,
I sit in wonder and awe.

Have you also given me this capacity to feel?

I ask, and I pray, and I envision for all of us:

May we walk upon this glorious planet,
who we have named Mother Earth,
with love, honor and respect.

May we each find within us
the recognition and acknowledgement
of all that we have received, and continue to receive,
from our very own Mother Earth.

May we graciously receive her abundant blessings
with respect, appreciation, and humility.

And may we consciously care for her well-being,
the well-being of our beloved Mother Earth.

Take some time to honor Mother Earth today.

With love and gratitude
for our most beautiful Mother Earth!

What is joy?

You know, that state of effervescent humming happiness
that permeates our whole being
and radiates out with a kind of
glowing brightness in times of delight?

What is it really?

Is it simply an emotional response
to good things happening in our lives?

But why then can many live
in a state of great fortune, great privilege,
but not always feel joy?

Maybe it’s about relationships.

Is it being in love or having a
healthy bond with our families?
Having lots of good friends?

But why then can we have all of these things,
yet sometimes joy is still a stranger?

For me, joy is a choice,
a daily choice as any good relationship is.

And in order to tell you about
my committed chosen relationship with joy itself,
I need to first tell you that
it wasn’t always this way for me.

Many years ago, I struggled with depression.

This human life is a wild ride for so many of us,
and I felt that deeply, and fell headlong
into an overwhelming long dark night of the soul
that held me in a very low ebb with life itself
for some years as a young woman.

One day I was walking along the road in springtime,
feeling so very heavy with the weight of the world,
bearing me down too low to feel the springtime
all around me.

Then something called me to pause
at a tree with beautiful green leaves.

I stopped.
I looked at the tree.
I picked a leaf.
I turned it over and over.
I smelled it.
I held it up against the light,
and it lay there on my hand,
emerald green against my skin.

I was suddenly filled with the utmost wonder
and an unfamiliar rush of indescribable joy,
at the magic of a single leaf.

The colour of it, how the light illuminated it,
the veins running through it,
its qualities of photosynthesis,
and its service to the whole tree.

The incredible process of its growth,
how it grows from a tiny bud on a bare branch,
fed simply with sunshine, rain,
and the nutrients of the earth.

I looked up at the tree and then all around me,
seeing for the first time since I was a little child,
magic everywhere.

I saw an awe-inspiring miracle,
a constantly singing symphony of life.

I saw love shared in small ways and big.

I opened my eyes and my heart, and joy flooded in.

In that moment, I decided that
no matter how much pain and grief the world carries,
while there is even a single green leaf in my world,
I will choose to celebrate life.

Over time, my joy grew and it became more
than a conscious choice or a momentary experience.

It became a whole way of being,
a breathing in of the small magics every day
and a breathing out of my expression of joy
through music, art, dancing, love, friendships.

I am still a sensitive person.

I still feel the pain and suffering in the world.

I know what it is to feel upset, or sad, or angry,
and I stand up as an activist at times
to say no when needed too.

But joy itself is an act of radical revolution
in this human world today.

And I learnt that if I keep choosing joy,
keep choosing love,
I have the capacity to hold it all,
the whole human experience in all its colours,
with compassion.

We all do.

We are vast beyond our understanding.

So may we all choose
a moment of joy today, and every day,
for joy is vital medicine
for us all.

Today we will explore the beautiful experience
of joy and gratitude together,
and how they naturally enhance
and elevate each other within us.

Feel your body.

Feel your connection to Mother Earth.

And take a few deep breaths.

Think of something you feel
genuinely grateful for right now.

Think of another thing.

And bring to mind one more thing
for which you feel genuinely grateful.

There are so many things to feel grateful for.

Be curious and notice
how gratitude feels within you.

And bring joy into your heart
to meet the gratitude.

How does it feel to bring joy and gratitude
together within you?

What happens?

How are you feeling?

Explore and feel how the beautiful frequencies
of joy and gratitude harmoniously interact within you.

Bring curiosity, wonder, and more of your senses
to the qualities, nuances, sensations, and colors
of what you are feeling.

Take a few minutes
and engage with the flow and rhythm
of your breathing.

As you feel your body, 
and feel your connection to Mother Earth,
and feel for the joy and gratitude
flowing within you.

Throughout the day and night, remind yourself
to notice what you feel joyful and grateful for
in the present moment.

Keep bringing curiosity
about activating joy and gratitude
within you.

One might be easier to feel and access than the other.
Find out for yourself what feels good for you.

Throughout the day, you can ask yourself,
“What am I grateful for right now?
What can I feel joyful about right now?”

And feel the joy meet the gratitude in your heart.

You can use your journal
to write down your experiences
and your feelings, if you would like to.

As you access, activate, and experience
the feelings of joy and gratitude,
you will naturally resonate their beautiful, high-frequency vibrations
within you and around you.

Notice the quality of your life
as you do this today.

What changes, and how are you feeling?

You are accessing, activating,
and creating your positive future
by living it right now.

Much love to you!

Let’s begin with activating joy and excitement.

It may not always be easy to feel joy,
but joy becomes more accessible
when activated along with other feelings.

In order to support ourselves, and each other,
in resonating the frequency of joy,
we have found that pairing joy with other feelings
augments and enhances both accessing,
and experiencing, more joy.

Joy and excitement.

See what happens when you bring
more excitement to your choice to be joyful,
to your choice to feel more joy.

And encourage the feeling of excitement
to meet the feeling of joy.

Joy and excitement play together 
like truly great friends.

Think of something you feel excited about.

This can be something small and simple,
or something really big.

It doesn’t matter.

Take a moment to answer this for yourself.

What do you feel genuinely excited about?

You can write down the things
you feel excited about in your journal.

Writing things down often helps
to bring more clarity to us.

As you bring to mind
things you feel excited about,
bring in the feeling of joy.

Notice how joy and excitement
feel together in your body.

Take a few deep breaths
to let these feelings really be present.

Use your journal to write down
your experiences and your feelings.

Notice the qualities, sensations,
the colors and nuances, 
of what you are feeling.

Think of something you are genuinely joyful about
right now,
no matter what else is going on.

And bring in the feeling of excitement.

Feel for the vibrations
of joy and excitement
in your body.

Take a few minutes
to notice your breathing,
feel your body,
and open yourself a little bit more
as you feel for the joy and excitement
in your body, and in your heart,
and in your whole being.

You have the choice of where
you place your attention.

You have the choice as to where
you focus your attention within yourself
as well as around you.

Throughout the day and night,
use the power of your focus, your awareness,
and pay attention to what you feel
joyful and excited about.

Be curious about what you’re feeling
as you resonate beautiful high-frequency vibrations
of joy and excitement,
and write about your feelings and experiences
in your journal.

And keep feeling your body
as you bring curiosity
to joy and excitement.

You are creating your positive future
by living it right now.

Much love to you!

Welcome to the UPLIFT Equinox 7 Days Of Joy!

During these 7 Days Of Joy,
we’re focusing on identifying the feeling of joy within us,
energetically and in our bodies,
becoming more familiar with the feeling of joy.

By feeling joy with intention and attention,
we are activating the vibration of joy.

Take a moment and notice
what are you feeling right now.

It takes courage to genuinely feel joy in our world
where so many are suffering.

It is our intention that by infusing
the collective consciousness with more joy,
everyone will get an uplifting wave of joy.

Even just a smile can bring joy
to everyone around.

Let’s be curious and see what happens
as we consciously, gratefully, and courageously
experience and embody more joy.

It’s our intention to raise the vibration
on the planet together, with this beautiful planet,
by having more fun, smiling more often, 
and focusing on feeling joyful vibrations,
infusing ourselves, infusing each other, and our world.

Joy is accessible within you.

It’s always within you.
It’s always available.

And we are going to discover what it’s like to access,
activate, and experience more joy within each of us, 
every day, and see what happens.

We’d like to suggest three ways to help
access, activate, and experience more joy each day:

First of all, make a list of things
you know you enjoy and love to do.

Be imaginative and uncensored.

Write it down.
Keep a journal for these 7 Days Of Joy.
Keep adding to your list every day.

And then do these things,
at least one or two things, on your list every day.

Notice what it feels like
to just start thinking about
the things you enjoy.

Start to imagine how you will
make these things happen in your life.

Secondly, take 5 to 7 minutes, 
every morning and at night before you go to sleep,
to focus on and feel for joy within you.

Bring to mind things that feel joyful to you
and focus on the feelings and vibrations of joy
in your body and your heart.

Thirdly, and most importantly,
throughout the day and the night,
find what you can feel genuinely joyful about
in the present moment.

Throughout the day,
no matter what is happening,
or what you’re doing or what else you are feeling,
there is always something you can find
to feel joyful about.

You can do these 7 Days Of Joy alone,
with your family, with a friend,
or a group of friends.

Notice how you feel to explore inviting people
to experience these 7 Days Of Joy together.

For the Equinox weekend especially,
imagine, create, and get inspired to do things
that really bring you joy, happiness, excitement,
adventure, celebration, peace,
gratitude, bonds of love and affection,
and any other way that brings you joy,
and then plan to do them.

Remember, things don’t always go as expected,
and we are learning to find joy
in each present moment, even when the unexpected happens.

We have the ability to reset ourselves
and feel for joy.

We can bring our focus to joy, compassion, trust,
peace, inner strength, and other inner resources,
no matter what else we are feeling,
and no matter what else is going on.

Keep feeling your body.

This will keep you grounded and centered.

Keep feeling your feeling of being alive in your body.

This is experiencing and embodying more joy.

We are complex beings,
and there’s always a lot going on within us.

We all have all kinds of feelings all the time.

So no matter what feelings show up,
we can just notice how we are feeling
with curiosity and kindness to ourselves.

Without rejecting our feelings or censoring them,
and without attaching to them,
we can shift our attention to feel
for joy, genuine joy.

It’s an exploration and a great adventure!

What does it really feel like to
experience and embody more joy?

Let’s find out together!