I wonder if you have heard about the idea that we are surrounded by the energy we think about. I think it is like we have a thought magnet in our head. Some people munch all catastrophe and fear. And so this is what seems to happen to them. It is really weird, like they KNOW bad things will happen and then bad things seem to keep happening. It is almost like darkness surrounds them like the dust surrounds pigpen in Charles Schutz’ cartoons.

I talk a lot about joy dots…and these are different from affirmations. Affirmations come from the mind creating ideas. Joy dots are emotional responses, a little noticing of a part of joy – the sound of a woodpecker, the light on the leaves, the curve of your child’s neck, the smell of puppy breath, the taste of the stew you just made. Feelings…if you let yourself start noticing, the habit grows, and you seem to find more joy dots. I think it is the magnet energy. Somehow, when we step into that feeling mode, the little dots pop up everywhere.

So you can continue the habit of *munching* LOL, don’t try to extinguish it, just convert it, flip it into use as a joy dot generator.

And here is a really outrageous idea. I think joy dots call a deeper energy, almost the tone, the vibration of joy and that somehow that is connected to Grace which is the source of joy dots…and that energy will absorb the fear and fill you up with anticipation and expectation of good things. Now, I know that sounds kinda out there, but…it seems to work, over and over. It’s like catching joy dots and then they swirl around like the dust around pigpen.

Enough joy dots and we get a joy life.