It can be really challenging to find happiness and joy these days. However, it is still possible and perhaps it is essential for you and I to cultivate joy during these frightening and divisive times. And you may even feel a bit selfish and crazy to focus on happiness when the world around you is in so much distress. Yet, that is exactly why it is so important for you to do so. For when you cultivate joy, you contribute to raising your vibration and the vibration around you-you contribute to the culture of joy. Today, despite what is happening around you, actively seek out people, places and things that bring you joy. Take a walk, find ways to move your body that are fun and that lift your spirits; connect with people that make you feel loved. And, finally seek out things that make you laugh because it is true that laughter is the best medicine. The world needs you and I to once again feel good, uplifted and joyful. Today set your intentions to find joy because it is still out there you just need to seek it out, find it and make it your daily practice. Cultivating joy in your own life will ultimately change the world around you.

Just for today, I am surrounded by joy and laughter. How wonderful it is to be alive. I know that if I dwell on what I do not want that is exactly what I will get more of. I now affirm only the good in my life. I begin and end each day in gratitude and joy. I laugh at myself and at Life. Nothing can bring me down. Life supports me in every possibly way and out of this situation only good will come. And so it is.