By Karen Nazmi -
It is when life’s tribulations are heavy to bear that they leave a fog of fear and uncertainty in their wake, a state, often couched in common parlance, as ‘soul destroying’.
When one is scarred and battle weary after enduring traumatic events, Joy can seem at best, a distant memory – at worst a foreign land never visited. Yet the aridity of this is ours to control.
Trying situations in life are probably as various as grains of sand on the shore, and, while trials they may be for those involved, their resilience will also vary, one to the next. Some people make very heavy weather of simple events and remain traumatised for time to come, clouded by a miasma of fear and negativity. Others survive the ‘impossible’ with equanimity, the ability to cope and move on seemingly incumbent on a deep-seated force which lends strength and perspective in times of stress – going beyond the adrenaline to which it is often attributed.
And it’s there for all of us!
Just as the soul is not ‘destroyed’ by events, so the central force of Joy never departs – and maybe they are one and the same, but this is not a religious diatribe. This is more of a focus on coping mechanisms against, what appears to be, a spiritual backdrop.
There are those who graduate from the direst of circumstance with a light in their eyes and forgiveness in their hearts, seeming to ride a wave of Joy. Apparently inherent to their makeup, it carries them through, keeps them strong and enhances their ability to solve their problems, facilitating the best outcome. Positive acceptance within the nature of such people creates a virtuous spiral to any situation – impervious to slings and arrows they just get on with it and smile at the finish, unscathed.
On the other hand, the poor cringing violets who weep and wail in the face of adversity, viciously spiral themselves into a pit of despair, unable to contemplate their problems unless to foresee the most negative of outcomes. Thereafter, the fallout from that despair may taint every action and encounter, gather to itself more bleak negativity and weave a shroud for that inner Joy which makes life worth living. But since Joy is always there, waiting to be accessed, for such people the dirge is for their own confidence and self esteem.
Oscar Wilde famously observed that “There are those who bring happiness wherever they go, and others – whenever they go.” Happiness is not Joy, it is more the light froth born of Joy – and can lead back to it. Wilde possibly noted that the Joyous carry a lightness which imparts to all they meet, while those devoid of Joy, the opposite. We all have the potential for both – Joy is inherent to every being – choose your state and your effect on the world.
Mystics of every religious persuasion preach Light and Joy as their essential message, and a lifetime of experience and observation has convinced me that the joyous are nice to be around, I want be like them and I want to make my life easier. For this I am convinced that:
Aye! – the mystics have it.
Karen Nazmi is a qualified homoeopath who writes about wellbeing against a spiritual backdrop. You can check her website here How to Find Joy, where she explores evidence of Joy in life, and its discovery – article Where is Joy
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