I'm the founder of Joy-Based Living, LLC. I help people who are reaching for increasing joy. Our community members value personal growth and expansion. We practice self-care, creativity and supporting each other. I help leaders and parents bring out the best in the people they lead. I show people who’ve been traumatized how to feel whole and to value joy and grow joy in their lives. I also write fairy tales. Sometimes I wear a gown and crown 👑 and read them aloud to children. CHECK OUT MY STARTER KIT AT LINKTREE! https://linktr.ee/debbiehappycohen
Cultivating Gratitude as a Workout
So over the last 7 years, our JBL members have focused on allowing and accepting ALL of our feelings.
And when we do this, we identify as that which NOTICES our feelings.
That shift in perspective creates more FREEDOM in our minds and hearts and bodies.
Negative feelings get released, like we've just taken a wonderful bath.
Now, we are focused on growing the EMBODIED SENSATIONS of positive feelings like gratitude and happiness.
I mean, the end result of anything we want in our lives...is a good feeling, right?
So why not start with the end in mind?
Gratitude is one of the highest vibration feelings in the universe.
So I started practicing EMBODYING gratitude.
The workout challenge I've given myself is to feel so much gratitude IN MY HEART that tears fall down my face.
For me, it's been a stretch!
Until I started EMBODYING GRATITUDE, I didn't realize how much I was in my head rather than my heart.
I invite you to try it for yourself.
I'm on Day 4.
It's amazing.
Here's my practice:
I write some things that I'm grateful for.
And then I speak out loud... sort of off the cuff.
I find that speaking my gratitude out loud, while focusing on my heart, has the strongest impact.
Every time I do this... my heart feels softer.
Bigger.
More at ease.
When tears start to come to my eyes, I know I'm on track, so I keep going in that direction.
Then tears start to fall.
I don't know where all this is going, but it feels good.
And lush.
I feel more connected to myself and to my heart.
I'm grateful for the good feelings that live in my heart.
And I'm grateful for you.
When I completed today's gratitude and tears were rolling down my face, I thought of you.
I'm grateful for you.
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What's one thing you're grateful for, right now?
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I believe in you!
Debbie Happy Cohen
Founder of Joy-Based Living
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Hi! My name is Debbie Happy Cohen
I'm the founder of Joy-Based Living, LLC. I help people who are reaching for increasing joy. Our community members value personal growth and expansion. We practice self-care, creativity and supporting each other. I help leaders and parents bring out the best in the people they lead. I show people who’ve been traumatized how to feel whole and to value joy and grow joy in their lives. I also write fairy tales. Sometimes I wear a gown and crown 👑 and read them aloud to children. CHECK OUT MY STARTER KIT AT LINKTREE! https://linktr.ee/debbiehappycohen
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