998: How to Open to Joy in Everyday Life by Elana Miller with Good Life Zen

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🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Elana Miller with Good Life Zen shares how to open to joy in everyday life. Episode 998: How to Open to Joy in Everyday Life by Elana Miller with Good Life Zen (Finding Happiness & Being Happier & Joyful) Mary Jaksch is an authorized Zen master (Diamond Sangha lineage), psychotherapist, and author. She has two nationalities,--English and German--and lives in New Zealand. She's the mother of a grown-up son and lives happily ever after with her partner David. She's been awarded an MA in Religious Studies, holds a 4th Dan Blackbelt in karate, started professional life as a flautist and loves dancing Argentine tango in skimpy dresses. The original post is located here: https://goodlifezen.com/joy-in-everyday-life/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 998, how to open to joy in everyday life by Lana Miller with
0:07.0	goodlifezend.com and I'm Justin Mollick, the guy that's narrated articles for 998 days straight.
0:14.0	Thank you for being here. I'm happy to be doing it for you. And it's thanks to you that I've
0:18.3	been able to do it for so long. I'll have a special episode for number 1000, maybe after that too.
0:24.6	And I'll keep this intro nice and short for you today, so let's get right to it and start
0:28.1	optimizing your life. How to Open to Joy in Everyday Life by Lana Miller with goodlifezend.com
0:40.0	I'll be honest, the word joy used to make me cringe. For some reason I associated this word with
0:46.0	something cheesy. I don't have time for joy, I thought. I've gotten important things to do.
0:51.7	Until a few months ago when as part of my meditation practice, I signed up for a class called
0:56.3	Opening to Joy. I didn't like the title, but the class working with difficult emotions didn't
1:01.2	fit my schedule as much as the joy class. So over the next six weeks, I found myself with a group
1:06.7	of 15 other individuals trying to cultivate joy in my daily life. The experience was transformative.
1:14.1	What I learned is that happiness and joy like anything else can be practiced. For many reasons,
1:20.1	we closed ourselves off to the possibility of joy. We think we're too busy or that is stupid or
1:26.0	that we don't deserve it. It's not realistic to be happy all the time. As human beings, we are subject
1:32.0	to ups and downs that are as intrinsic to life as breathing. True joy, though, emerges independent
1:38.5	of life circumstances. It is a radical willingness to find contentment with things as they are.
1:45.2	Why is it hard to be joyful? When I started the meditation class, I found myself with a myriad of
1:50.5	excuses as to why I couldn't be joyful. I'm too busy. This is lame. There's too much stress in my
1:56.8	life right now. I'm buried under responsibilities and obligations. There's something wrong with me,
2:02.0	and I don't deserve it. Unfortunately, we are hardwired to attend more vigorously to negative
2:07.2	experiences. Over our evolutionary history for survival reasons, it was more important to notice
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