What are we all really seeking as a fulfilling life?  Nirvana? Freedom? Peace? Health?  The word the best describes it for me is joy.  When everything is complete within us we experience joy.  I find joy never permanent. It feels like a peak or a plateau that I get to enjoy for a period of time.  Then another challenge comes my way that brings the perception of an incomplete reality and I lose the connection.

There are ways that I can help direct us back to joy.  Below are some of the things that I do that help me break through to the reality of fullness in my life.

Completion:  Whether it be a project on something that I am working on within completion of it is personally fulfilling.  It is always important to stop and smell the roses when we are finished with a project or resolved an issue.  Allow your vision or visualization of it to be seen beyond your eyes and felt in your heart and body.  Joy is a sensual body experience the mental fulfillment is not nearly as satisfying.

Discovery:  Finding something new energizes us, especially when the discovery is related to something within us or personal accomplishment.

Laughter: Laughing releases.  If we are laughing at our own life, own creations or with someone else it is a more direct possibility for change. To laugh at our own mistakes is a great power.  I open my perception to laugh at movies, books or media experiences is beneficial but is not as powerfulas laughter within us.

Crying: Crying or screaming is a great therapy to release our emotions such as sadness, anger or rage.  It is not screaming at someone as that is aggression but to scream in order to release (such as rage).  The same applies to crying, when we feel the loss within crying while relating to the emotion we release allows it more fully. This perspective of release is not about the story or the person we relate to but the direct feeling of it.  The release of the emotion can be so directly powerful that we come out on the other end feeling joyful.  I never enjoy screaming into a pillow but I always feel better afterwards.

Openness:  The more I can see the world without judging it right or wrong, good or bad I maintain an open ended attitude.  It allows me to see the world in a detached way.  Through that I am more open minded to see the world around me in different perspectives than my own.  I am in an attitude to receive from others as well as myself by the open perspective.  As a result there is less opposition to everything in my life therefore a joyful feeling of wholeness is more of a possibility.

Forgiveness:  Forgiving self and others in a heartfelt way creates the possibility for a release of limiting emotional beliefs.  The deeper we can forgive the greater the possibility for joy.

Gratitude:  The attitude of gratitude generally includes a state of non-judging, non-definition and non-justification.  We are grateful.  Our hearts are opened.  This is a powerful condition of joy.

Movement:  It is the quality that all of the above have. When we move or resolve barriers, overcome conflict, see a new perspective, change an attitude come to terms with something inside of us we have movement.  Change and movement open us to the reality of joy.

In general, the more we accomplish, change, grow and seek out what stops our life we will find joy.  As we know ourselves better we learn to have joy within on an everyday basis.  The beauty of joy is that has a very broad base of how it can happen.  One aspect I did not cover is faith, a process of surrender to a concept, an ideal or higher power.  It is finding joy beyond you.  It may be a topic from another article.

Receiving Inner Wealth is wholeness in all areas of our life: relationships, personal joy, finance, work, self-esteem and more.  The more we have these parts of our life fulfilled everything shows up easier including money.

Living in the belief, the more you receive of yourself the more you receive from the outside world.  The question to ask is: “What limitation am I creating that is inhibiting my ability to receive more from life?”

Having a deep inner joy as your natural self is the preferred state of being to manifest your life.  When you are joyful, curious, open to living life in the state of a question, present and grounded in our body we create our dreams easier.  Creating out of fear, inadequacy, proving to others or anxiety is a stressful way to create your life.   Yes some people are successful while they live in those limitations, but they could be doing it so much easier.

A part of finding your personal freedom usually means identifying, exploring and releasing our suppressed emotional conflicts.  With an attitude that our limitations have something to teach us, these issues are solvable and our dreams can be realized.  It is a courageous journey to uncover ourselves and find our own greatness that is within all of us.

Receiving is about perceiving and having allowance of the world around you without judgments.   Finding a deeper inner awareness allows you to see your world with more clarity.