Pause: Awaken Joy
If you’d like to feel more joyful today, try listening to “Awaken Joy”—our lovely “Take a Moment” 90-second micro-meditation. You’ll be guided to remember what delights you and makes your heart rejoice, and then fully savor those wonderful feelings with your entire being.
Research shows that when we linger with positive emotions like joy or gratitude, we help strengthen the brain’s pathways for happiness and resilience. The more we practice savoring these uplifting feelings, the more easily we can access them—creating an inner reservoir of well-being we can return to anytime.
For a deeper experience of this practice, Quest for Eternal Sunshine also offers a beautiful 9-minute meditation called “Savoring Positive Emotions,” which is part of our “Embrace Every Emotion” resource. Created by therapist and mindfulness teacher Katie Dutcher, this meditation invites us to slow down and fully absorb the moments that fill our hearts with joy.
As Katie explains, “Because we often don’t give beautiful moments our full attention, they can seem to evaporate quickly as we move on to the next experience. In this guided meditation, we savor and amplify the emotions that fill our hearts and light us up.”
