Remember and create Joy at least once each day

Do you remember joy? Step out of the pressures of the day and take a moment to re-experience some moment of joy in your life no matter how small. Joy energies, heals, and motivates – the RDI is at least once a day!

Who has time to be happy? Who has time to find "joy" in lives filled with pressures and responsibilities? The answer is, anyone who wants to live! Do not underestimate the value of joy, of happiness, of feeling good, to your health and wellbeing, mentally, physically and emotionally.

Clinical studies conducted over a 20year period in the Netherlands showed that when the sample of people involved in the study was asked about their relative degrees of happiness, the figures accurately predicted a tenfold increase in the suicide rate of those who considered themselves to be "very unhappy"1 Through this and other studies Davidson found, using brain imaging that, "voluntary emotion regulation" can induce changes in the brain; and, that deliberate cultivation of certain forms of positive emotions may have beneficial effects on mental and physical health.

What does that mean? It means that you need to make a conscious decision to find, experience, and remember joy/happiness. If you provide yourself with a medicine chest of "joy memories" and make a conscious decision to access and recreate that happiness when it is needed most in your life journey, then your brain will respond accordingly. Instead of emitting "depressive" / survival chemicals, it will re-create those positive chemicals relating to the emotions of joy and happiness. When that occurs, your ability to process and respond to the potentially depressive situation will be more effective, more positive, because you are coming from a position of mental clarity and emotional positivity.

Remember Joy/Happiness it may well be your life saver!

1 Davidson and Thurman 2004 Emotion Regulation, Happiness and the NMeuroplasticity of the Brain