Inspiring You With Henri Hebert

#103 | Joy & Happiness How do you cultivate and practice Joy & Happiness Joy—like attention, befriending, and compassion—is an energy, intention, cultivation, and a practice. Often neglected, joy is both a capacity we all have and a capacity that can be trained and developed. It is a primary component of psychological well-being, encompassing moments of appreciation, enduring contentment, and a sense of confidence and gratitude. It is an attitude of mind that can be cultivated through mindfulness practice and through how we live our lives. When we intentionally cultivate joy, we discover that it can be the home where we reside; we come home to joy. We withdraw from the tendency to orient to insufficiency that drives the elaborative judgment of distress and suffering. It takes only a small step of mindful wholeheartedness to let yourself shift to joy. You can be supported to shifting by enjoying a piece of music, noticing the stars in the sky, the sunlight glistening on the leaves, the people we l