The importance of JOY

In case you haven't heard it before, JOY is healing. Joy allows us to access/heal our inner children, joy brings our whole energetic body into a higher vibration, but most of all joy gives us perspective.

Just last night, my five-year-old wanted to have a family NERF battle. Did I necessarily feel like doing one in that moment? Nope! I had to pack lunches, clean up from dinner, my husband was about to head out and mow the back yard... but you know what? We did it.

His joy and excitement were so contagious that pretty soon I was belly crawling on our landing howling with laughter because my husband caught me and hit me with a NERF right in the butt.

And you know the perspective it brought? The dishes can wait, the lawn can wait, but what's the most precious resource any of us have? It's time. And I'm so grateful to my kid for bringing us all out of our to do list (future time) and into the present where our entire house was filled up with joy and with play (even if just for a few minutes).

That's the energy I hope to bring to the Summer SOULstice Celebration. A pause from the "to do" list, a moment to breathe, to remember, to integrate and to enJOY the present moment.