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You Are Worthy of Joy · Feel Really Good: Empowering Meditations

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome, friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's spend a little time together reflecting on joy, our worthiness of it and inviting it in.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you'd like to listen to this meditative reflection with your eyes closed,
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  SPEAKER_00: you're always welcome to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or if you'd prefer to take this one outside or on a walk, feel free.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just be sure you're still able to maintain your present moment awareness with yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are many of us who spend time wondering how to be happy.
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  SPEAKER_00: How can we make our lives happier each day?
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  SPEAKER_00: How can we feel happy more often?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why don't we feel happy all the time?
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  SPEAKER_00: The thing about happiness is that it's an emotion,
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  SPEAKER_00: a temporary feeling that is often our reaction to something outside of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: But joy?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a deeper, more enduring state that is cultivated from within.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joy is something we can nurture inside of ourselves and consciously invite to grow in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't have to wait for something to happen outside of us or wait for the feeling
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  SPEAKER_00: to spontaneously arise on a whim to experience joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, you might be thinking, well,
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  SPEAKER_00: that's great,
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  SPEAKER_00: thanks for the definitions,
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  SPEAKER_00: but call it joy or happiness, how do I get either of them more often?
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  SPEAKER_00: Rather than focusing on a random reaction to success,
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  SPEAKER_00: a social event we're looking forward to,
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  SPEAKER_00: or receiving some kind of reward to experience happiness,
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  SPEAKER_00: we are able to invite in the deliberate practice of joy anytime.
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  SPEAKER_00: This attitude towards life that is a choice to see things through a different lens.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's an active drawing in of the things that light us up,
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  SPEAKER_00: the moments that nourish us to our core.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we're inviting joy,
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  SPEAKER_00: we aren't forcing ourselves to put on a happy face when life sucks
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  SPEAKER_00: or throwing toxic positivity around like confetti.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are simply recognizing that many moments of our lives can be even just
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  SPEAKER_00: a little more joyful than we are allowing them to be right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was a preview of an empowering meditation for my paid subscribers on Substack.
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  SPEAKER_00: To listen to the rest of this meditation and access my full library of practices,
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  SPEAKER_00: feel free to head to brittanyatlas.substack.com to become a paid subscriber.
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  SPEAKER_00: For just $8,
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  SPEAKER_00: you get weekly Feel Really Good meditations,
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  SPEAKER_00: written reflection pieces,
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  SPEAKER_00: journaling prompts, and seasonal soul spa virtual mini retreats.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope you join us so that you can Feel Really Good and live your own inspired story.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't wait to continue our journey together.