When you are filled with inner joy, you have found your path of inspiration and spiritual practice.
Literally, the place we are filled with true joy is the way we come home to our authentic selves.
Observe your energy and see where you get truly joyful and follow that way in your life.
Just like the child’s game of getting warm and hot, to find something, our treasures lie in inspired energy.
When someone asks what do you want for Christmas, what do you answer?
When you are invited to express your true heart’s desires, how do you respond?
When you make a wish on your birthday candles, what do you wish for?
Listen to your responses and notice whether you are really honest.
Spiritual “honesty” is an answer that remains the same and is not changed by time or circumstances.
Being “authentic” is listening to your innocent, natural wisdom.
Living in “integrity” is knowing, expressing and everyday practice of your true values in all you say and do.
Knowing yourself and being true to yourself is key to spiritual empowerment and inner peace.
The world is filled with distractions, detours, delays and disappointments that dissuade us from our Truth.
We need to go within to listen to our heart, our higher Self, our holiness and call for healing and wholeness.
Being honest about our true inner joy requires us to bypass our distractions and honor our Authentic Selves.
Learning to forgive, erase, undo, release and ignore the many worldly temptations is essential to know Joy.
What bring you and me Joy does not change.
It is the essence of what we seek in our relationships with Self and Source.
It is the calling to give what we want to have all day and everyday.
It is the origin of our true and lasting happiness and life force.
When we are on purpose with our joy, we are energized and enlivened.
When we are filled with real happiness, we express ourselves authentically.
When we are joyous, we share our joy abundantly with no limitation.
When fully alive, we experience limitlessness and trust ourselves.
I am joyful in writing these reminders daily.
I feel complete and happy and free when I share the highest Truth I know for the Good of All.
I experience joy and high energy when I am loving each one I encounter.
I love to sing and share to facilitate laughter, encouragement, freedom and purposeful living in others.
Ask yourself when you are filled with Joy, either quiet joy or obvious joy expressed outward.
With grandchildren, friends, and family, strangers and those your pray for or play with?
Are you most joyous cooking, giving, sharing, dancing, loving creating, writing, playing?
Do you delight in being in nature, helping and healing, designing and creating beauty, learning and knowing?
You are here for yourself.
To be truly happy is to give yourself what serves your inspiration and true joy.
To be joyous benefits, blesses and inspires others.
So give yourself the gift of honoring your own true happiness, and your happiness will bless your world!
Loving us all joyfully,
Betty Lue
Twelve Daily Steps To Optimistic Living
1. Focus on my successes rather than on my failures.
2. Notice that which I have accomplished rather than that which I’ve left undone.
3. See and acknowledge my beauty rather than focusing on my imperfections.
4. Notice and acknowledge all the times I’ve followed the optimum conditions,rather than judging myself for the times I have not.
5. Acknowledge all my wins each and every day.
6. Create and maintain an environment that nurtures me.
7. See problems as opportunities to learn from rather than as obstacles to avoid.
8. Tell the whole truth on a moment to moment basis in order to maintain impeccable and loving relationships.
9. Be conscious every moment to put positive thoughts into my mind rather than negative, knowing all thoughts are creative.
10. Appreciate my feelings as a means of understanding myself, thus directing and creating my reality.
11. Continue to forgive myself and others as a means of creating a state of Grace.
12. Fill my life with joy and ecstasy by practicing daily the art and skill of verbally expressing my gratitude for all that I have.