Are you familiar with the gas bubbles you find in carbonated drinks? Sometimes you’ll drink one of those sodas or soft drinks and the bubbles seem really ‘hard’. Others are really ‘soft’ and floaty. Then there’s the bubbles that fly up out of the drink and into your nostrils, and the ones that if you drink too quickly erupt into a really loud burp.
The thing they have in common is they are what makes a ‘soda’ something special. They are the difference between still water with sweetener (like cordial) and something which seems like a party drink.
Ok, so that may be taking the whole bubble thing too far but the concept works. And, it illustrates the whole JOY Bubbles experience.
That feeling when you have to laugh and you try not to, you push it down, kind of holding your breath, but it keeps fizzing until it explodes in a loud outburst … just like when you shake up a soda/soft drink bottle.
JOY Bubbles!
An Eruption of JOY Bubbles!
Finding your JOY and tapping into it whenever you need to or want to is like feeling those bubbles from the soft drink inside you. There’s a little bit of fizzing in your belly (not a physical sensation so much as an emotional one) which makes you a bit wriggly and a little bit excited.
Once you connect with your version of the ‘fizzing’ you begin to see it whenever you are inspired or excited or motivated. When you are in complete alignment with your JOY, the bubbles grow. They almost consume you, internally, and you can almost see them wrapping around you externally.
Exploring JOY Bubbles:
- Buy yourself a bubble blowing kit and blow bubbles. Have some fun with them.
- If you were to imagine those bubbles were JOY Bubbles inside you, what would your JOY Bubbles feel like? Can you describe them?
- What kind of JOY Bubbles do you have? Soft, hard, fizzy, erupting, delicate?
- What brings you JOY? What kind of JOY Bubbles do you associate with that JOY?
- What does it feel like when something “bubbles up” inside of you?
(c) JOYFUL WARRIORS Guidebook pp.72-74
