Daily Mindfulness Check-In June 22, 2021
Finding joy 
Thinking about the future or ruminating over the past prevents us from finding joy in the moment 
Is it easy for you to be joyful or do you feel that you need to learn to feel joy no matter what is happening around you? What gave you joy in the last week and did you seek for it intentionally?
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hei , long time no see.
I feel joy when my mind wanders into happy places. :) such as some fantasy.
i feel joy when I saw your post and see how nice its connecting with you :)
I feel joy when I have some hope that someday i might connect with a girl.
I feel joy when i feel that when day i could achieve my goals.
i feel joy when i work on my goals.
what prevents me from having joy, when i have negative thoughts like thinking someone will try to boycot my goals. or that people want to stop me from completing my goals.
thanks for this entry.
@okeyyyy
So nice to see you again in the forum and thank you for sharing all these positive thoughts with us! I hope that you will connect to that girl one day.
@amiablePeace77
I've been reading Brene Brown's book The Gift of Imperfection, and she gave really good distinctions between joy and happiness, with happiness being a feeling that stems from what is happening outside of us (our circumstances), and joy being more spiritual and not affected by outside influences. Real interesting stuff!
To answer the question, I don't think it's easy for me to have a joyous state of mind mostly because it's very hard for me to stop negative thinking from taking over. Just last night as I was trying to sleep, I wanted to try out thinking of all of the good things that I did that day. Negative memories kept trying to butt in the way and take over, which was really frustrating. Maybe with a bit more practise I can manage more joy.
@cafedaydreams
Reading motivational and inspiring books can be very helpful, nice that you found these insights in the book.
I hope that mindfulness will help you to see more and more the good things around you without getting hijacked by negative thoughts in future.
@amiablePeace77
Yes. It's a slow process, but I'm starting to find pockets of time where I find myself not doing anything but sitting still and listening. I can't do it for very long though..yet lol
@cafedaydreams
Sitting still can be a big challenge, I remember years ago I could not sit still for 5 minutes, now I don't have any problems at all anymore since I increased it gradually.
Is it easy for you to be joyful?
Yes! There's a switch that I turn on, giving myself permission to feel that way and to let my emotions arise/take over/identify with them. When I get out of my brain/thoughts and into my emotions/senses/feelings, I can experience them. When I am doing heady things, I turn off the switch (mostly) so I can do intellectual stuff. What gave you joy in the last week and did you seek for it intentionally?
Ooooh, lots! Shopping at the farmer's market seeing a cute employee that I like there! Buying sunflowers for a gift for my friend's mother's birthday! Going to my first party in more than 1.6 years! Talking about music and meeting new people - in PERSON! Petting a dog and giving him a good, hard, long massage so he wouldn't leave my lap! No, I just find joy in the things that I'm doing. But part of it is intentional, since I choose to do things that give me joy!
@onwardforevenmore
Wow, it seems that your learned with time how to focus on having fun! Glad to hear about all these good things you could do!