Midway through this video, if you notice quite carefully, Story Waters suggests if we make a commitment to joy, then often what we receive immediately is not joy per se right away but rather old wounds.
"As you open your heart--as you activate that compass--it will bring you straight towards your joy. That isn't always what people think it might be -- it may, for example, lead you straight to a wound to be released... A wound coming out can be painful. If a situation happened in your life that was too intense, too maybe an abuse of some kind, it was too much to deal with, too much for your heart, you take that and you repress it down, and you bilk it.
As you awaken those things--those wounds--come up to be released because you are Freedom, and they're not naturally what you are. And as they pass out of you, you feel them. You feel them with your being now, and the energy that was stuck in that box at that time comes out. And it doesn't need to be difficult. And that's the beautiful thing. It may be a pain that comes out for you, a painful experience but if you've become aware of your own process to the point where you know, "Oh, this is an old wound coming out." So you don't start panicking about it thinking you've going backwards or is something going wrong because negative feelings come around. If you can realize in the moment, "Oh, I'm in the release of a wound" that's actually joyful because you know you are releasing a part of your past-- your baggage, a brick-- because your joy lies beyond that. Your heart--that compass--that is your joy. Follow that and you will be in joy. You will find your passion. You don't need to work it out. It's not a secret hidden away."
And also later: "It's the integration of everything. There is nothing that is not you. Everything is a reflection-- we are each All That Is, the Tao. So behind mind, body, spirit, whatever you experience in your life -- realize it is all you, it's all us, it's all energy. We are One. Just as we say allow everything within your own being--whatever you are, whatever you feel--allow it. Allow that for other people--instead of getting caught up in their business. Take care of your business, your joy. What is it that brings you joy? Integrate that."
Later still: "Do what you enjoy now. And start to identify the things in your life you don't enjoy, and look at how you can stop doing them. What you always find there's a belief behind it -- why you feel you need to keep doing this thing you don't enjoy. Identify that belief and you're realize it isn't true, and you can stop doing it. Release that.
That's where happiness is. It's as simple as that: Do what you enjoy, stop doing what you don't. And that's taking responsibility for our own life, that's the release of blaming others. It's realizing that there is joy there, you are joy, and if you want to experience it you have to make choices that reflect it.
We are each the creator of our reality. If you want to come into contact with that part of creation, you have to take responsibility for what you are creating. As long as you deny you are creating it, you are separating yourself from the power of creation...."
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