Delight / JOYFUL --   Week 5

Delight is the taste we get when something good happens. Worries fade away, frustration evaporates, and anger disappears when a baby is safely born or a friend passes their exams, when a problem is solved or a conflict resolved.

Delight opens the heart. Delight can change our minds and change our lives. It is a tonic that relieves the pain of envy and shifts the blight of depression. 

It brings us closer to the people we love and eases the difficulties we have with those people who are further away from us. It makes such good sense to practice the art of rejoicing that it is strange we often overlook it.
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Topics for discussion:  (From 16-G PDF)

1. Why is bad news sometimes more compelling than good news? Why are we tempted to dwell on what is going wrong rather than what is going right?

2.    Delight can be to feel joy for the good fortune of others but that can also feel challenging?   When was the last time you felt delighted / "joyfully" for someone? How did it feel for you?

 .... or whatever is alive in you.  

 Words of Wisdom

“The greatest good you can do
for another is not just share
your riches, but reveal to
them their own.”
~ Benjamin Disraeli

 "How We Think"  (survey)

Everything that we say and do arises from our thoughts.

Behind every emotion and action lies a thought.

The reality we experience is a consequence of the projecting nature of our minds.

Each thought shapes what we perceive.

Our tendency is to look externally rather than internally. 

We tend to blame others and/or circumstances.

We take responsibility for our thoughts and actions. 

Our emotional reactions and physical actions are affected by a complex mixture of our experiences, attitudes, perceptions and beliefs.

Neuroscience says there is an intimate connection between our perceptions and attitudes on the one hand and our emotions and motivations on the other. 

So if we change our perception and attitudes towards someone, we can change the way we feel about them.  

Ref:  Compassion And Wisdom.org

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