Standing in Your Light: Joy Refining

In this exercise, you’re taking the bits of joy you’ve been mining (see Joy Mining) and refining them into a shining presence within you that you can offer back to the world.

Central to this idea is the realization that you, like every other being and object on earth, are immersed and embedded in the living energy field of the Soul of the World. What becomes part of your personal energy field by induction flows out to become part of the field of the World. In this way we all radiate energy into a common pool which we all share. A powerful act of service, then, is to bring joy into this common field.

No matter how small our portion of joy may seem to be, that we make an effort to draw it forth and offer it greatly multiplies its effect. It’s rather like a campaign of matching funds: for every $1 of joy we contribute, the Soul of the World puts in $1000, $10,000, or $100,000 of joy.

We really do not know and cannot measure the effect our gift of joy may have in creating a channel for the joy of the Sacred to pour through. Taking a moment to summon up and radiate joy into the world around us is a profound and needed act of service and “energy hygiene” for our planet.

In this exercise, you are taking all the nuggets of joy you’ve been collecting and “melting” them together in your imagination, refining them into a felt sense—a presence—of joy within yourself. Feel this joy in your body, in your heart, in your mind. Feel yourself filled with it and surrounded by it. 

Once you have this sense of being in joy—of being joy—from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head, feel and imagine the quality of this joy radiating out from you into the world around you.

For instance, I sometimes imagine this joy as a sphere around me shining its Light into the energy field of the surrounding environment. Then I imagine a spiral starting at my feet and spinning around me like a rising whirlwind of joyous energy, spiraling up above my head and sending joy into the Soul of the World to become part of the field of life from which we all draw.

You have mined your moments of joy, melted them together, refined them into a sense of joyousness, and now you are giving that molten, fiery, resplendent joy back to the world.

Do this for as long as you feel comfortable. When you feel restless or tired, just bring your mind and heart back to your own body, your own joy, and allow the energy to settle within you. Stand in your Sovereignty and give thanks for the joy you receive and the joy you can share. Remember, you are a generative source of joy when you choose to be.