Tag: joy

It’s raining

Posted on by philipdodson

I love the rain, it brings a crisp clean air, it washes away, it renews, it brings life, it is joy.

Without rain nothing would exist.

Also, it’s great to just stand in the rain and experience the feeling and the joy of the water droplets falling onto your head, and face and skin. To just be with nature, with this moment, to just exist in a state of peace.

Splash in a puddle, in fact, jump right into it and get really soaked.

Joy comes from the most basic simple things, yet we are conditioned to be searching for the next ‘big’ thing. Happiness can be experience always in this moment from the simple, basic, so called ‘ordinary’ things.

Get out and enjoy the rain.

Now is where we experience joy

Posted on by philipdodson

When we just do something, straight away, without thinking, it brings us simple pure joy. Not in the forward-thinking sense of completing an achievement, it is in the simple pleasure of this real moment now.

We can only ever do something now, of course, but all too often the doing is drowned out by the endless thoughts of the outcome, or whether or not we are doing it right, or if we should even be doing it at all, or how can we avoid doing so as not to expose ourselves to criticism and the list of thoughts can go on and on. So we do not experience joy when we are taken over by our thoughts.

Now is where we experience joy, only if we are disconnected from our thoughts.