{"id":111013,"date":"2022-05-17T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=111013"},"modified":"2022-05-17T10:22:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T17:22:08","slug":"creating-and-claiming-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/111013-creating-and-claiming-joy","title":{"rendered":"Creating and Claiming Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Claiming the joy is a movement.\u00a0 It is rising up one more time to meet the joy.\u00a0 It\u2019s taking the responsibility to create the joy in what you are doing.<\/em> – John Morton<\/p>\n

This article is taken from a previously published article that appeared in the New Day Herald in February 2014.\u00a0 It comes from a sharing John did in November 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the years, John-Roger has said that we are to have joy and to have it more abundantly.\u00a0 There is a reference\u00a0in\u00a0scripture, \u201cThese things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full\u201d (John 15:11).\u00a0 I see that like a law.\u00a0 You could say, \u201cIt is my right to have joy because God said so.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is important in experiencing the joy is to ask, \u201cWhere is your faith and trust?\u201d\u00a0 Do you claim your joy?\u00a0 If you do claim it, do you claim it in full or do you claim it only when you feel joy?\u00a0 When you don\u2019t feel joy, do you still claim the joy for yourself?\u201d<\/p>\n

Claiming the joy is a process that is part of our learning and how we can evaluate if we are keeping the faith.\u00a0 Do you have the patience to trust and hold while you find the joy?\u00a0 Joy is a spiritual promise.\u00a0 It is our natural way of being from the Spirit.\u00a0 This world has a way of knocking us for a loop every once in a while, or maybe quite a bit, depending on how your life flows.\u00a0 That is just another way of saying we are going to be tested.\u00a0 But the joy is still always present.<\/p>\n

Consider what you are aware of in this moment.\u00a0 What are you giving your awareness to?\u00a0 Do you give it over to fear and doubt, things you don\u2019t like or things that bother others?\u00a0 Do you let those concerns be the focus of your awareness?\u00a0 If you do, then where is the joy?\u00a0 At times it may seem that joy is missing, asleep inside of us, taking a rest and waiting to come awake again.<\/p>\n

The joy is never missing.\u00a0 Joy is always present.\u00a0 It\u2019s up to us to awaken to it.\u00a0 Have the intention of claiming your joy so it\u2019s part of how you identify yourself.\u00a0 \u201cI am a joyful person.\u00a0 I create joy.\u00a0 I find joy in my life and circumstances.\u201d\u00a0 It is along the lines of St. Patrick\u2019s prayer about the Christ being with us in every way.\u00a0 Joy is in front of me, behind me, on my left, on my right, under my feet, behind my eyes.\u00a0 Joy is always there.<\/p>\n

Claiming the joy is a movement.\u00a0 It is rising up one more time to meet the joy.\u00a0 It\u2019s taking the responsibility to create the joy in what you are doing.\u00a0 John-Roger has said, \u201cIf you want to be happy, do happy things.\u201d\u00a0 It follows that if you\u00a0want\u00a0to be joyful, do joyful things.<\/p>\n

To know yourself as a spiritual being, claim it!\u00a0 Identify with it.\u00a0 You are spiritual.\u00a0 It is your heritage.\u00a0 You can\u2019t lose your spirituality.\u00a0 You may displace it or forget about it.\u00a0 You may act as if it isn\u2019t yours, but it remains.\u00a0 You are always a spiritual being.\u00a0 We really can\u2019t mess with who we are spiritually.\u00a0 We may mess with ourselves, but who we are spiritually is held intact.\u00a0 That divine treasure is not tarnished or broken.\u00a0 If we act as if it is, that is when we are off.\u00a0 And our life is going to reflect that we are off.<\/p>\n

As John-Roger has said numerous times, we get sick and tired and\u00a0then<\/u><\/em>\u00a0we get sick and tired of being sick and tired.\u00a0 That is around the time we let it go.\u00a0 Sometimes that is with a sense of desperation, \u201cI give up because I don\u2019t know what else to do.\u201d\u00a0 What may happen then is that at long last, you are open.\u00a0 Amazingly, because you were desperate, you created openness.\u00a0 Now you\u2019re reachable and touchable.\u00a0 Your focus can be directed into who you are, rather than what you or someone else thinks you are.<\/p>\n

Would you like to shift your awareness from judgment to joy?\u00a0 That\u2019s fairly simple.\u00a0 Just change what you are looking at.\u00a0 Change your focus.\u00a0 Releasing judgments would help you do that.\u00a0 A dynamic of judgment is that something or someone should be different, including you.\u00a0 You might judge that you should have more money, more things, or be more successful.\u00a0 If you look carefully, you are going to find that you are the one who assigned those things to yourself.\u00a0 You created an expectation about what you should be accomplishing in your life, particularly around the results.<\/p>\n

The reality is that you are in conflict with the results in your life.\u00a0 You assigned an expectation to yourself.\u00a0 It could be an attachment.\u00a0 Sometimes the attachment is to where things were in the past, like, \u201cI used to have this.\u00a0 I used to have this job.\u201d The focus is on what occurred in the past.\u00a0 That becomes a victim story rather than a story of learning, growth and ever-increasing joy.<\/p>\n

Instead of focusing on what once was, connect to where you are in the moment.\u00a0 Ask yourself, \u201cHow am I?\u201d\u00a0 Look at your life as it is, what you are wearing, where you live, where you are and what is present with you, here and now.\u00a0 Take notice and claim the joy already present in your life.\u00a0 Update yourself regularly so you are in tune with your life as it is now, rather than wishing it was different from the way it is.<\/p>\n

Although it is common to judge ourselves, that is a source of dis-ease because you are out of alignment with who you are.\u00a0 When we become aware and connected with who we truly are, we often find it\u2019s a good story.\u00a0 A story of success, abundance and prosperity.\u00a0 There is a lot for us to be thankful for.\u00a0 As you start the process of waking up your thankfulness, you will start feeling better because joy follows naturally.\u00a0 Gratitude is a good attitude.\u00a0 It lifts us.\u00a0 If you want to experience more joy about your life, move into your thankfulness.<\/p>\n

As you become more aware of your judgments, you can change your focus.\u00a0 You may think, \u201cI should have more money.\u00a0 I should have nicer things.\u00a0 I should have a job I enjoy more.\u201d\u00a0 You can change that from \u201cI should have it\u201d to \u201cI can have it.\u201d\u00a0 Your life isn\u2019t over. It is still being created and you are a co-creator with God.<\/p>\n

As you choose into the joy that is present, there is a practical aspect that has to do with manifestation.\u00a0 Consider what you want to create in this world.\u00a0 What do you want to make your life become?\u00a0 What results are you looking for?\u00a0 Energy follows thought.\u00a0 The more you can be specific, the better.\u00a0 If energy follows you with some vague, general concept, then the results will match with unclear results.<\/p>\n

Even if you were in a garbage dump, you could be happy, content and at peace.\u00a0 That is possible.\u00a0 You might not even want to change that situation.\u00a0 But if you are aware, \u201cI want to change it.\u00a0 I want nice house and car.\u00a0 I want a job that is interesting to me,\u201d then energy starts to follow your lead.\u00a0 There is a responsibility to bring it forward.<\/p>\n

I suggest putting your intentions in writing because that has a way of concretizing it.\u00a0 If it is difficult to put what you are envisioning into words, it can be done with pictures.\u00a0 You can envision an ideal scene, cut out pictures from magazines and create a collage of what you want to manifest in this world.\u00a0 Put it in a place where you can look at it and focus upon it.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you have an ideal scene from a long time ago.\u00a0 Is your current vision the same?\u00a0 If it hasn\u2019t materialized as of yet, you might need to update it.\u00a0 Maybe it needs to be re-done and re-energized, so it matches your intentions here and now.\u00a0 The most important part of envisioning what you want is your energy.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have energy on what you want to create, then you\u2019re adrift.\u00a0 You are at the mercy of whatever winds are blowing.\u00a0 Those tend to be karmic.\u00a0 If you want to set a new course and change the karma, ask yourself, \u201cWhat do I want to focus upon?\u00a0 Where am I in relation to where I want to go?\u201d<\/p>\n

When we are faced with distractions or things that annoy us, we can choose to increase our awareness.\u00a0 It may be a toothache, headache, jackhammer, noisy store, or any number of things such that you register, \u201cI don\u2019t like that!\u201d\u00a0 It may be more like, \u201cI don\u2019t really seem to have the opportunity or willingness to change it.\u201d So now what?\u00a0 You can overcome distractions through observation and the willingness to embrace, rather than resist, whatever it is.\u00a0 That is a key \u2013 over and over again \u2013 for all of us in this level.<\/p>\n

Can you embrace whatever it is, rather than move into some form of resistance where you are contracting?\u00a0 Can you let go of protesting and judging?\u00a0 It is a choice point to accept or reject whatever is distracting you.\u00a0 Rejecting and dismissing the annoyance tends to add to its persistence and increase its magnitude.\u00a0 Acceptance starts creating a lesser annoyance and allowing for greater enjoyment.<\/p>\n

We always have the opportunity to take distractions on as a kind of puzzle or riddle that is already solved.\u00a0 God already solved it.\u00a0 God loves the annoyance, so you can also love it.\u00a0 You can even enjoy it.\u00a0 Let\u2019s consider God knows that.\u00a0 God says, \u201cYour turn.\u00a0 Your move.\u201d\u00a0 If you know that you can solve the puzzle because it has already been solved by God, you can move to the loving and joy of whatever is in that experience.<\/p>\n

Because of our intention, we can find a way to find the good, the joy and the upliftment in any distraction.\u00a0 It may take our patience and willingness to endure.\u00a0 I encourage you to have that willingness to \u201chang in there<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 Use everything as a process for upliftment and learning.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

Greatest Blessing Ever\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord, we ask for Your strength, Your ability,<\/p>\n

Your willingness that is Your will,<\/p>\n

eternally for all of Your creation, that it\u2019s in full.<\/p>\n

That we are partaking fully,<\/p>\n

we are expressing fully in all of Your greatest blessings, what it is becomes one blessing<\/p>\n

that is eternally present for all of us, that every moment is a new opportunity into the greater blessings<\/p>\n

and that is no contradiction. That\u2019s how it\u2019s always been.<\/p>\n

That this is a movement of greater blessing.<\/p>\n

And so, we are in the creation that transcends where we are now in this world.<\/p>\n

We are transitioning, we are transforming,<\/p>\n

we are going ever higher in the consciousness of<\/p>\n

Your creation.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s been called the heart of God.<\/p>\n

That we know those keys are safe and secure always in<\/p>\n

spirit, and always awaiting as we choose freely as we are now,<\/p>\n

that each one of us is being counted<\/p>\n

that we are extending our affirmation, our confirmation.<\/p>\n

That we speak to the great I am as the I am.<\/p>\n

We are resonating with the Great Master, that consciousness of the Beloved that is a friend,<\/p>\n

so we can see eye to eye, that we embrace fully<\/p>\n

and we also extend into this world<\/p>\n

so what we are calling forward spiritually can be made manifest in this world.<\/p>\n

And it would be any one of us<\/p>\n

for all of us are being delivered with this key.<\/p>\n

We know through our beloved Traveler, anointed as<\/p>\n

the Christ,<\/p>\n

standing in what is prepared as that place in spirit that is sacred, being revealed to each one,<\/p>\n

in that way that is playful and joyful.<\/p>\n

So we are fully in our child nature, innocent, pure, and we hear Your laughter and our laughter.<\/p>\n

So it is a chorus of laughter, a chorus of joy. It\u2019s a great<\/p>\n

vision of what has already become.<\/p>\n

That as we can in any way behold this<\/p>\n

and see this as the great vision that\u2019s always been true, we can express in this world even for just one brief moment.<\/p>\n

And in that moment is the eternal truth that Your love is always with us. That everything is just fine.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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