Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

You know what I've been thinking about lately?

I've been thinking about this a lot.

I've been repeating it a lot.

And the more I repeat it either to myself or to people in my world,

the more it lands and the truer it feels. It's this. Joy brings strength.

Think about that. Joy brings strength. When you experience a wave of joy or a feeling of gratitude

or really even any positive emotion in your body, it is an energy multiplier.

I can tell you when I feel joyful, I'm at my most generous. I'm at my most creative. Problems don't seem as big in my mind. They immediately shrink somehow. When I'm experiencing joy, everything feels like it's going to be

okay. My daily anxieties and worries feel like they're no big deal. It doesn't just lift your mood.

It upgrades your stamina. Think about it. If you're experiencing no joy, no joy deposits throughout your day,

if you're just kind of trudging through, going through the motions, trying to make it to the

weekend, trying to make it to 5pm, aren't you tired? Isn't that exhausting? How does it feel to go

through that kind of day, that kind of week? There's also research that a joyful

nervous system, how we feel in our bodies, recovers faster from illness, allows us to create

faster as people, human beings with incredible brains. It even allows us to connect with our fellow

human beings better. This is why to me

negativity is lazy in the words of RuPaul and joy brings energy. Joy brings strength.

Joy brings creativity. Joy allows us to be incredible problem solvers. It makes us fun to be around. It puts us in

the vibration of receiving, meaning receiving things that we want. So this is what I think, my friends,

I'm not being a very responsible person if I'm not making joy a priority in my day. I'm being lazy. I'm choosing

the hard way and may I remind you this is the Let It Be Easy podcast. What brings you joy? And I don't

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