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Unlocking Everyday Joy: Finding Happiness in Simple Moments · STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Hey there.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Where in your life do you experience joy?
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Take a moment to connect with the prompt.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Maybe take a deep breath and close your eyes as I ask you again when in your life do you experience joy?
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: As you visualize these moments in your life that bring you joy, take a moment to embody the feeling.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: It may be something you experienced long ago, or as recently as today.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: Whatever it is, I want you to tap into what joy feels like.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's making eye contact with someone you love or seeing your dog run in the park.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's bursting into spontaneous, uncontrollable laughter with a friend, or reuniting with someone you haven't seen in a long time.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe you find joy in unexpected places.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: What does it feel like?
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: What does it feel like?
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: We so often look for happiness in the future I'll be happy when and attach it to something that we have yet to attain, but what we overlook is that there's a deep well of joy that we have inside us.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: All the time.
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: We create joy by keeping our eyes, our hearts and our minds wide open.
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: Think about something that makes you joyful right now, in this moment.
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: You might surprise yourself.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: Do you feel how you can tap into that the endless.
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: Well, Even if we're not experiencing it in this moment, we can access that feeling.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: It doesn't leave us.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: We can access that feeling.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: It doesn't leave us.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: I want to share something with you that I read.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: It's a story about a teacher who gave a balloon to every student who had to inflate it and write their name on it and then throw it into the hallway.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: This teacher then mixed all the balloons into the hallway.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: This teacher then mixed all the balloons.
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: Imagine a hallway in a school completely filled with mixed balloons.
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: The students were then given five minutes to find their own balloon the balloon with their name on it but despite a hectic search, no one found their balloon.
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: At that point, the teacher told the students to take the first balloon that they found and hand it to the person whose name was written on the balloon.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: And you know what?
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: Within five minutes, everyone had their own balloon again.
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: The teacher said to the students these balloons are like happiness.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: We will never find it if everyone is looking for their own, but if we care about other people's happiness, we'll find ours too.
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: What's one thing you can do right now that will create joy?
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: Go out and create joy.
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: I'm Lisa Hopkins.
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: Stay safe and healthy everyone, and remember to live in the moment.