Friday Wisdom is shared from Christine Agro’s Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms’ Edition) Each Deck has 42 cards and a booklet that offer insight and guidance for parenting consciously.

Joy Card #28 in The Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms’ Edition)

Today I drew the Joy Card.

I spent the morning on a field trip with Caidin’s class. They are studying the Hudson River this year, so we went to the bank of the river to explore and observe. Sometimes field trips can be chaotic, but this one was one of the more enjoyable ones I’ve been on. The kids were great. They sat and drew a picture of the river for the cover of their journals and when they were finished they one by one migrated to the river’s edge and started skipping stones. There was an easiness that the entire group possessed that was just so nice to be a part of it. When it was time to leave, they packed up just as easily as they had unpacked and walked backed to the school van, full of joy.

The group as a whole joyfully embraced this field trip and it was a great reminder of how joy is inherent and when embraced there is an easiness to life that most of us have forgotten.

Here is the text for the Joy Card.

For You

Throughout our lives, expression of our joy is often stifled or altogether stopped.  We become programmed to shorten or deaden it for fear that others won’t be able to accept us as joyful.  It is true that many people cannot accept being around joy, because it reminds them that they cannot and do not experience it themselves, but is that reason to stop yours from flowing? Possibly you have not even been aware of when and where you cut your own joy short.  Joy flows up from inside of us from a place just below the base of the spine (just below the tailbone).  To get your joy flowing, close your eyes and place your attention at the base of your spine.  Imagine that you are turning on a faucet opening the stream of free-flowing joy. Imagine that the flow of joy is a color and by using your intention, move the energy of joy up your spine and allow it to fountain out the top of your head. Practice this short meditation daily to help you live life joyously.

 For Your Child

Children live and breathe joy, if we let them.  Their inner light is a natural expression of joy, but too often we unintentionally squash that light. Fostering joy in our children can be difficult when we are pulled in many directions and have many responsibilities and sometimes many concerns.  This card is asking you to fan the flame of joy that burns within your child.  A life lived joyously will flow with grace and ease.  Encourage your child to sing, dance, laugh, play and love.  If you discover that you have cut off the joy by mistake, use your realization as a teaching moment and talk with your child about the ways in which our focus can cloud how we live and dampen our joy. And then tickle until joy returns!

Joy #28 in The Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms’ Edition), Illustrated by Samantha Bachechi, Creative Medium LTD (C) 2010-2012 Conscious Living Unlimited LLC

**A note about The Conscious Living Guide Wisdom Cards (Special Moms’ Edition): There are 42 cards in the deck and a guide book. The guide book includes insight for you which is meant to help you live life more consciously as well as insight for your child, which is meant to help support you in your Conscious Parenting.

*Additionally, to avoid the awkwardness of saying he/she all the time, I have picked one gender to identify in each card.

© 2012 Christine Agro

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Christine Agro is a clairvoyant, naturopath, Master Herbalist, conscious mom and author of 50 Ways to Live Life Consciously as well as of The Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms’ Edition). Christine is founder of The Conscious Mom’s Guide , a membership site where she helps support you on your own journey of living life consciously and on your journey of being a Conscious parent. You can also join Christine on Facebook. To contact Christine, invite her to speak or to schedule an appointment with her please email her.