早朝、きらめく海とモロカイ島
21日間メディテーションの8日目です
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第8日目 喜びを生きる
「喜びは舞い込んでくるものではありません。
喜びという感覚を選択することが必要です。
毎日、選択し続けなければならないのです」
ヘンリ・ナウエン
「喜びを拡大する」21日瞑想の第2週へ突入しました。
第1週では、
幸せとはあなたの外側ではなく、
あなたの内なる源のものであるということを理解しました。
幸せの種である、
喜び、愛、希望、平安、直感、一体性が
芽を出し根付いていくことを体験しました。
第2週では、
あなたの幸せを育て花咲かせて、
あなたの人生のあらゆる領域を豊かなものにしましょう。
喜びを表現することも
人と幸せを分かち合うことも自然なことです。
幼い子どもたちがいかに無邪気に幸せと喜びを表現するのかを見てごらんなさい。
大人になると
感情を表現することに対して
たとえそれがポジティブなものであっても、
より用心深くなってしまいます。
人生における幸せへのポジティブな影響を制限してしまうのです。
あなた自身であること、人生を楽しむことを自分に許可し、
あなたのあるがままの生を感じる必要があります。
今日の瞑想では、
喜びへの扉を開き、
喜びを人生のあらゆる領域に広げていくことを意図します。
Day 8 – Living Joy
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen
“Welcome to the second week of our 21-Day Meditation Experience, Expanding Your Happiness. Last week we discovered that happiness is something we source inside us, not outside us. We experienced the sprouting of these seeds of happiness – joy, love, hope, peace, inspiration, wholeness – and felt them take root. This week, our happiness will grow and blossom to enrich all aspects of our lives.
It is natural to express our joys, and to share our happiness with others. Watch how young children innocently display their happiness and delight. As adults we have learned to be more guarded with expressing our emotions, even our positive ones, and this has the effect of limiting the positive influence of our happiness in our lives. We need to give ourselves permission to be, to live, and feel life as we are.
Today’s meditation is designed to open the doors of our joy and let it expand into all areas of life.”
Today’s Centering Thought
“We are here to enjoy”
Sanskrit Mantra
“Shree Ram – I embody happiness and vitality” (Deepak pronounces Shree Rahm)
Oprah
“Welcome to week 2 of Expanding Your Happiness. We’re so delighted to have you join us on this joyful meditation journey. Last week we went deep within to connect with and experience The Source, the wellspring of true happiness. This week we want to expand that happiness and express it in all areas of life with a new, innate understanding of the sacred ground from which happiness springs. Eternal. Today we begin day 8, living what we felt last week, Living Joy. We may think joy is a moment of laughter, of love, of delight, in fact living your joy, sharing it with the world is the highest expression of spirit. When you open up and allow your light to shine, you’re expressing the grandest and most powerful state of well-being imaginable. Express joy at every opportunity and it grows. As Marianne Williamson says, joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. Relax and enjoy as Deepak guides us to letting us let our joy light shine, teaching us how to live it. Then we’ll meditate.”
Deepak
“Yesterday in meditation we took a new viewpoint, the viewpoint of wholeness. When you feel complete, something surprising occurs. The boundary between “in here” and “out there” disappears. Consciousness flows without boundaries. Happiness moves from an internal emotion into a physical expression, a smile, an embrace, a dance. You have entered the state of self-fulfillment because everything you enjoy is part of the same unbroken circle. This is our theme in week 2, moving from the internal state to the external expression for happiness.
The sprouted seed is now emerging into the sun and light, growing into a full blossoming flower. When limiting beliefs and social conditioning restrict our expression of joy, the circle is broken.
One way you can tell that someone has experienced pure awareness is that life becomes more enjoyable. They no longer feel limited as more and more of their inner potential unfolds. The simple truth that we’re here to enjoy life is also a profound truth. Joy is one of the highest expressions of spirit. Give yourself permission to experience your joy whenever you feel it. Many people feel uneasy showing too much feeling around others, preferring to be self-contained. They don’t want to attract undue attention to themselves. But you can take a new perspective, seeing that when you express your joy you are nurturing her personal reality and therefore reaching a higher state of well-being. Joy isn’t selfish, it’s self-care bringing vitality to your emotional body. Expressing your joy doesn’t have to be ostentatious or attention-grabbing. Simply remove your hesitation and smile when you feel like it. Laugh. Bounce to the rhythm of life. Accept the invitation to join the cosmic dance. Serious as life can be, at the deepest level, joy is our reason for being here.
As we prepare to meditate together, let’s take a moment to consider our centering thought. We are here to enjoy. We are here to enjoy.
Let’s prepare for our meditation. Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Become aware of your breath and just breathe, slowly and deeply. With each breath, allow yourself to become more deeply relaxed. Gently introduce the mantra, Shree Ram. This mantra brings an immediate physical sense of joy. Repeat it silently to yourself, Shree Ram. Shree Ram. Shree Ram. With each repetition, feel your body, mind and spirit open and receive just a little more. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, noises or physical sensations, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra. Shree Ram. Shree Ram. Shree Ram. Continue with your meditation. Shree Ram. Shree Ram. Shree Ram. Shree Ram. Just mentally. Shree Ram. Shree Ram. Shree Ram. Release the mantra. Continue to sit restfully, inhaling and exhaling slowly. When you feel ready, open your eyes.
As you continue with your day, contemplate the centering thought, We are here to enjoy. We are here to enjoy. We are here to enjoy.
Namaste
Journal Questions:
1. “Write down three things you can do to discover more joy in today. Find familiar things around you and see them as if for the first time. Maybe it’s the birds jumping between tree limbs outside your window. Slow down and really be aware so that you participate in the wonder and joy of the experience.”
2. “Think of the happiest person you know. Write down an event where you remember being impressed by how upbeat and buoyant they were. Write underneath that passage: “I want to live joy in my life like that.”
3. List a few of the ways in which you hold yourself back from expressing your happiness. Realize that repressing your joy isn’t healthy. Make a commitment to smile, laugh and show your joy whenever you feel it. Encourage yourself to let your inner joy fully enter your life.”
4. “Reflect further on today’s experience.”
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