James Baraz - Finding Joy and Wellbeing During the Most Difficult Times

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Health & Fitness

4.3 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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James Baraz is the author of the book, Awakening Joy. 10 Steps to Happiness. Many of us are asking the question, ”how can we feel joy in the midst of war and suffering — and the many terrifying things that are happening in our world.” James believes that it’s more important than ever that we open up to this feeling. And, if the word joy doesn’t feel right, he says, we can consider the many dimensions of wellbeing— from joy to happiness to goodness to contentment and peace. All of these wholesome states inspire love, kindness, generosity, and compassion. We need this now. It’s a time for our hearts and minds to be expansive so that we can process all of the challenges in our world. If we only focus on sorrows, we’re contracted, living in despair, hopelessness, and negativity. If we’re only living in joy, we are missing the totality of life…the larger perspective. Both are always present. 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows. It’s the full range of life experiences that shapes our capacity for compassion and who we are as human beings.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Muse, the brain sensing headband that helps you meditate and sleep and five-star app meditation studio.
0:10.1	I'm Patricia Carpice.
0:11.6	Just a reminder once again to check out all the new muse features and content at choosemuse.com when you have a minute.
0:20.2	I was excited to interview today's guest, James Burraz, author of the book, Awakening
0:25.5	Joy, Ten Steps to Happiness.
0:28.3	Many of us are asking the question, how can we feel joy in the midst of war and suffering
0:34.0	and the many terrifying things that are happening?
0:37.6	James believes that it's more important than ever that we open up to this feeling.
0:42.6	And if the word joy doesn't feel right, he says there's a continuum of the many dimensions
0:48.1	of well-being from joy to happiness, to goodness, to contentment and peace.
0:52.9	All of these, what he calls wholesome states,
0:56.0	inspire love, kindness, generosity, and compassion. We need this now for sure. It's a time for our
1:03.5	hearts and minds to be expansive so that we can process all of the challenges in our world.
1:09.3	If, he says, we only focus on sorrows, we're contracted,
1:14.4	living in despair, hopelessness, and negativity. If we're only living in joy, we're missing
1:20.5	the totality of life, the larger perspective. Both are always present. 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows.
1:28.2	It's the full range of life experience that shape our capacity for compassion and who we are as human beings.
1:34.9	Now, more wisdom from James for us.
1:40.0	James, I'm thrilled to have you on Untangle today.
1:42.8	Thank you for being here.
1:44.9	Happy to be here with you, Patricia.
1:46.9	Yeah. I know you're a Buddhist and I'm very curious what originally inspired you to focus on the topic of joy.
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