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From the original post:
2008-11-20 05:37:24.0
Joy and laughter are part of a healthy and balanced spiritual walk. What makes you happy that you...
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Posted: Nov 20, 08 9:40am
Ditto to all of the above.
To me Joy is difficult to explain. Now happiness and laughter are more on the physical/emotional state and I can relate easily to those feelings. My house is full of the happiness and laughter. The sounds of children running and playing. The laughter when I do really crazy things and we can laugh at them, rather than look at the "misfortune". The laughter shared while playing with my children and grands.
Joy to me is a sign that the presence of God is at hand. It's in that moment that you feel truly touched.
My heart will explode with the sheer fullness. My tears well up with their fullness. While all these physical feelings are going on, there is the total and complete calmness. A knowing that all is right and proper with myself, the world and all things.
Joy, happiness and laughter all are signs that God is truly present.
in Love & Light,
Deb
Posted: Nov 20, 08 4:05pm
Joy and laughter are part of a healthy and balanced spiritual walk. What makes you happy that you experience as spiritual?
I find feeling one in nature as an entirely spiritual experience. Knowing that I am in harmony with nature and being able to observe the beauty of the natural world is a big part of what spirituality is about for me.
Posted: Nov 20, 08 6:54pm
This is an area I have some difficulty relating to. "Joy" is, to me, a pretty strong emotion, suggesting to me a rush of blissfulness, the sort of thing that would make you want to dance a little jig perhaps. I have known very, very little of that in life and don't seem wired that way. I am extremely laid back and easy going and while that quality spares me being tossed here and there by every change of the wind and keeps me firmly on the ground, .... well, it keeps me firmly on the ground, if you get my drift. Perhaps it is a mistake to associate what we are talking about here with a particular emotional state? Because what I seem to experience when my spiritual walk is "healthy and balanced" is more of a calm serenity, that I don't think most people would associate with "joy". And frankly, as an introvert, my personality really needs that sort of stability to function effectively, so I don't think I should be aiming for that kind of excitement. Although it would be nice to be more able to tap into it and switch it on in certain situations, because it would help me be more enthusiastic when others need me to validate their enthusiasms. --Bob
Hi Bob,
You have an interesting perspective.
I think a rush of divine bliss may or may not be likened to the joy of dancing a jig.
Yes, I think it can be an experience of extreme energetic joy, and not necessarily be an emotional state..
Why could'nt joy simply be pure happiness overflowing with boundless energy?
I dont think that spiritual 'bliss' would necessarily have to be an experience of balance.
What about the song, "Joy To The World", the classic Christmas Carol and later, the Number one song by the 70's rock band, Three Dog Night
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Posted: Nov 24, 08 6:42am
Has anyone read about Norman Cousins and how he cured himself from a deadly disease by renting a bunch of funny movies and laughing himself back to health!
Laughter can be powerful medicine!
Posted: Nov 24, 08 9:51am
When I feel peaceful towards something that once seemed difficult, I feel joy.
When I connect with God in an exchange of love and know that it is possible for everyone to have the same love.
I feel joy.
I have to say that when one has God within, one can see and experience great things. Knowing and feeling the presence of God in my life gives me immensurable joy. " God is love and whoever abides in love abides in God".
Posted: Nov 24, 08 11:08am
I laugh a lot, mostly at myself, and I really have fun. I think that is healthy but I do not think that is spiritual; because sometimes I can be really pist off. My capacity of laughing is not permanent.
I have joy while watching a flower flourishing, but I do not think that is spiritual neither, because if a bee or a mosquito bite me while watching the flower my joy will be over. My joy is not permanent.
I think spiritual joy is enlightment itself; is an internal smile that we do not ever miss. That smile is enlightment itself. We can still be very sad sometimes, but beyond that sadness there is an internal smile that we do not loose; not even while we are crying. The sadness some point will be over, the internal smile will not, because it is not part of the opposite thinking.
That smile is for me: joy, enlightment, love. I wish we all will be able some day to be that smile.