This is episode 1,66. Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

How are you doing today? I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for being here as you get ready to slow down and in today's episode you are going to be guided using an affirmation.

And this is an affirmation you can do as we continue along with our Joy meditation series.

So every day I have a challenge for you this week as you go throughout this series and the challenge is for you to find happiness or joy every day and not only to do that but to actually plan it. When you

begin to plan moments where you experience joy, you will train your mind to look for joy. Whatever you focus on, that's what you get more of. And so

when you focus on happiness and joy, you'll get more of that in your life.

Now, when you think about your happiness, happiness is fleeting. It could be a beautiful day,

and so it makes you happy it could be some good news you heard

oftentimes happiness is outside yourself the kind of joy is that eternal deep joy and when you focus on this week is that eternal deep joy and when you focus on your joy each day, you remind yourself of the joy that's

within you that's within you, that's always there within you. And when you focus on this more and more as I mentioned you're going to have a more joyful

outlook and the reason why is because we have so many choices when we encounter different

events, different people, different situations in our life.

If you're not really in touch with yourself or with your life,

then the emotions you are experiencing can be ignored or pushed aside because you may want to numb out. You may be feeling like

you just don't have the time to process certain emotions.

You don't have the bandwidth.

Maybe you're very stressed or engaged.

Emotionally and other. or engaged emotionally in other aspects of your life or you can feel triggered by the things happening around you in your life,

to where you feel hopeless, to where you feel a victimized, or to where you feel like hope, happiness and joy is just beyond your reach.

Maybe things didn't go so well for you in your life.

And... in your life and you have a hard time processing what happened to you.

So you can feel that way. You can numb out, you can let your emotions bring you down, or you can allow yourself to ascend by lifting up your emotions.

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