Welcome to Day 7 of Insight Timer's Intention Setting Challenge.
Setting an intention is making a decision about who you want to be and how you choose to show up.
Over time,
Those choices become change.
Let's begin.
Hello beautiful humans of Insight Timer and welcome to the Intention Setting Challenge.
My name is Darius and today we are focused on quite possibly my all-time favorite topic,
Joy.
The art of rediscovering life's simple pleasures.
Joy isn't always loud or grand,
Sometimes it's a quiet flicker.
A song you love,
Sunlight through the window,
The smell of fresh bread,
The sound of a baby laughing.
When we make space for these small sparks,
They remind us that light still exists,
Even on heavier days.
For me,
Joy is a beautiful paradox,
Almost like a cosmic riddle by the universe.
Joy is both sacred and silly,
Fleeting yet abundant,
Simple and profound.
To help bring the energy of joy into your day,
We'll focus on the intention.
Today I'll look for something that makes my heart smile.
Today I'll look for something that makes my heart smile.
So let's begin our practice.
If your eyes are open,
I want to invite you to close them now as we go inwards together.
Taking a nice deep breath here,
Breathing in,
Big exhale out.
What if joy was easier than you ever imagined?
What if joy was all around you,
Everywhere?
What if you already had access to so much joy from inside you?
It was there underneath your nose,
Inside your heart this whole time.
Today we are choosing to free our joy.
We are choosing to remove any expectations,
Any upper limits of how much joy we can experience.
We have no demands on joy.
We are allowing it to bless our lives in incredible ways.
Take a nice deep breath here and just imagine what could happen to your day,
To your week,
To your year,
If you opened yourself,
You opened your heart to the infinite blessings of joy.
Today I will look for something that makes my heart smile.
Practice with me now just the energy,
The experience,
The feeling of your heart smiling.
Thank you for going on this intention setting journey with me and allowing me to be a part of it.
Allowing joy to impact our lives in a deeper and more meaningful way.
Before you move on to the rest of your day,
I want to invite you to take a moment to notice one simple thing that brings joy into your life.
However small,
However silly,
However sacred,
Be with that one thing.
Let that feeling linger,
Let it ripple through your cells,
Through your being.
And remember,
Today I will look for something that makes my heart smile.
Hold that intention.
Spoiler alert,
There are a lot of things that can make our hearts smile.
On the next few screens,
You'll be invited to set this intention or a variation of it to your insight timer home screen.
The simple act of seeing your intention reflected back to you throughout the day can be enough to create change.
I want to wish you good luck with the rest of the challenges ahead.
Thank you once again for meditating with me.
My name is Darius and I will see you next time.
