You you Allow yourself to relax and settle into a comfortable space Focus in on your breathing Softening your belly and relaxing your shoulders Give yourself a sweet loving embrace and a kind smile of gratitude Thank yourself for taking a moment to remember to plant to tend to harvest the joy that lives within you As you relax your hands back down at your side Call in your angels and guides that will support you in this remembering in this returning Deepening into your breath sensing that you are supported Allow your heart and mind to relax and settle into a comfortable space As you surrender in to the awareness that you are always supported always held You are allowed to be supported by your heart and mind That you are always supported always held you are allowed to be still You are allowed to rest You are safe to smile with wonder and awe in your heart No matter what is going on in the world outside You are safe and free to tend your joy even as sorrow and confusion accompany you in this life as well In the wise words of Khalil Gibran Your joy is your sorrow unmasked and the self same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain Allow these words to deepen this fierce connection to your joy With no need to justify or explain yourself or make it safe for anyone else This is your space This is your journey Your joy reveals the ways in which you have allowed the sorrows of life to make you tender rather than hard To deepen you to show you a level of intimacy with life that belongs to those who are brave enough to seek it Imagine yourself now in a beautiful space in nature Your favorite place to sit and be present with the natural world Take in the terrain the sounds of the plants and the animals The colors and the textures of this landscape The temperature and the scent of the air Take in the simple and distinct pleasure of being Simply being with life Drenched in the energy of this wild and beautiful place You are sensing now that you're going to be met by someone very special Someone that loves you Someone that is so proud of you Someone that has something very special to teach you about your own capacity for joy You feel a small hand tugging on your arm You turn around and lower your gaze so that you can behold this beautiful child You recognize them right away This is the child that you once were Quite some time ago when they were accessing and expressing the purest measures of joy In the simple wildness of childhood Slipping through the cracks of heavy memories,
Joy is the stubborn and ever-present light of our true beingness Of play,
Of skipping,
Running,
Laughing for no reason Of being held,
Tickled,
Of holding hands and being led For the longing of closeness and the naming of every animal or toy Joy is the simplest connection of all of life in its livingness Allow this beautiful child to share with you what it knows about joy You may ask it questions or simply smile and embrace Receive whatever joy and wisdom is right for you You may ask it questions or simply smile and embrace Receive whatever joy and wisdom is right for you Receive whatever joy and wisdom is right for you Receive whatever joy and wisdom is right for you Receive whatever joy and wisdom is right for you Receive whatever joy and wisdom is right for you Receive whatever joy and wisdom is right for you Receive whatever joy and wisdom is right for you When you feel complete,
Thank this beautiful child that is you for its love Let it know that it is safe and you will tend the joy for all the pieces of you whenever you are able to As this beautiful child runs back into the wild of nature,
Take in a deep breath of gratitude into your belly Release it with a sigh,
A sound,
Maybe even a smile or a laugh Wrap your arms around yourself once more,
Sensing the tenderness and joy that's radiating from you now Begin to ground this energy into your body as you return your awareness back to this present moment Your breath,
The furniture in the room Begin to stretch,
Move and root down into your physical body If you have a journal close by,
Write down any of the wisdom that you received so that you will remember to take it with you throughout your day Be well,
Tend your joy,
Blessed be
