https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQIzQG-L08c
Join me in this free flow, a blend of EFT tapping and qigong focused on clearing away sadness and inviting joy into your life. Let go of that looming dark cl

https://aestheticsofjoy.com/how-feeling-sad-can-help-us-find-more-joy/
Knowing this, here are five ways Helen Russell shares that can help you deal with difficult feelings in healthy ways. Allow space to feel. "The first rule of sad club is 'Don't fight it,'"says Helen. Give yourself a designated time, even just five minutes, to sit (or walk, or write) with the sad feelings.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/how-can-you-find-joy-or-at-least-peace-during-difficult-times-202210062826
But it isn't easy to maintain a healthy, positive emotional state. Positive Psychology: Harnessing the power of happiness, mindfulness, and inner strength is a guide to the concepts that can help you find well-being and happiness, based on the latest research. When people are going through difficult times, it's normal to feel a lack of joy.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-personal-renaissance/202205/new-ways-find-joy-in-troubled-world
A new documentary offers the Dalai Lama's and Archbishop Desmond Tutu's strategies for cultivating joy, even in troubled times. Research shows that finding joy is good for our health, builds

https://www.helpguide.org/articles/healthy-living/finding-joy-during-difficult-times.htm
By doing this, even during the most difficult or distressing times, your gratitude practice will help bring your circumstances into perspective, indirectly create joy, and keep you grounded. [Listen: Gratitude in Difficult Times] Spend time in a vision practice. Close your eyes and focus on your very favorite place, person, mantra, prayer, or

https://blog.calm.com/blog/how-to-be-happy-again
There are other steps you can take to improve things, too. Engage in activities that you find relaxing or enjoyable to help improve your mood . Manage stress and anxiety with practices like meditation or deep breathing exercises. Maintain a regular sleep schedule to support your mood.

https://www.lifehack.org/886752/finding-joy-in-life
So, here are 19 tips for finding joy in life during difficult times that can be incorporated into your daily life. 1. Stay in the Present. When we are overwhelmed or feeling sadness and loss, the secret to finding joy is in taking life one day at a time. Difficult periods can seem more manageable when we don't overwhelm ourselves by worry

https://brenebrown.com/podcast/accessing-joy-and-finding-connection-in-the-midst-of-struggle/
The Lightmaker's Manifesto: How to Work for Change without Losing Your Joy by Karen Walrond. The Lightmaker's Manifesto includes creative and practical exercises, including journaling, daily intention-setting, and mindful self-compassion, that are complemented by lively conversations with activists and thought-leaders such as Valarie Kaur, Brené Brown, Tarana Burke, and Zuri Adele.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/emotion-information/202011/how-release-sadness
Ride the wave of sadness, stay with it, allow yourself to cry until it is over and the wave ends. Stay breathing until you feel calmer. Finally, when you're ready to move again and continue with

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/managing-your-mindset/202011/finding-joy-in-difficult-times
It is an attitude, a practice just like yoga, that can be a salve for sorrows. Joy can be found in personal connection, in communion with nature, in art and music appreciation. When we access joy

https://www.webmd.com/balance/what-to-know-tears-of-happiness
Basal tears. These tears are actually in your eyes all day. They act as a lubricant and disinfectant for your eyes. In addition to the water and salt that you might expect in a tear, there is also

https://www.everydayhealth.com/emotional-health/all-about-sadness-what-causes-it-how-to-cope-with-it-and-when-to-get-help/
This 2015 Disney movie provides a surprisingly sophisticated take on our core emotions: joy, anger, fear, disgust, and sadness. The way that sadness is portrayed, in particular, beautifully maps

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/finding-joy_b_3517734
They adapt, find meaning, move into the next place. They are anything, but stuck. They are resilient. Feel the Pain, Feel the Joy. It's not like the pain bounces off resilient people. It smacks them up between the eyes like the rest of us. But, they also tend to get their happy back instead of getting buried in the ick.

https://info.totalwellnesshealth.com/blog/ways-to-seek-joy-even-when-things-are-rough
If you want, keep it on your phone in a note to look over when you're having a bad day and need a little joy lift. "When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.". ― Rumi. 6. Spread Kindness. Acts of kindness don't need to be elaborate to bring you or others joy.

https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-purpose-of-emotions-as-told-through-inside-out
Joy realized this (literally with Sadness not going away), and Riley did, too. Riley began to feel easily irritated. She snapped at her friend, and even blew up at the table with her dad.

https://drjudithorloff.com/the-healing-power-of-tears/
For over twenty years as physician, I've witnessed, time and again, the healing power of tears. Tears are your body's release valve for stress, sadness, grief, anxiety, and frustration. Also, you can have tears of joy, say when a child is born or tears of relief when a difficulty has passed. In my own life, I am grateful when I can cry.

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/grief-taught-me-to-rest
Knowing and enjoying Jesus — even in the midst of suffering — becomes the energizing force to keep us going. This is what Charles Spurgeon means when he says, "I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.". Run to Jesus. Hide your life in him. And find your joy in him.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/emotion-information/202105/how-feel-more-joy-every-day
Use deep belly breathing to keep the joy flowing. (Holding the breath is a common way we stop emotions from flowing, and that can cause anxiety .) If you experience tension or anxiety, try

https://www.joincake.com/blog/joy-and-grief/
4. Suggest seeing a counselor or support group. Much of the grieving process feels negative and uncomfortable. People experience sadness, anger, confusion, and a range of other unpleasant emotions. But when you find peace and healing from a loss, you don't just flip a switch and turn off the sadness.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/06/1173993223/understanding-the-joy-that-many-find-in-sadness
The only way I could feel this right now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.

https://musimorphic.com/feeling-unmotivated-and-sad-how-to-find-joy-in-life-again/
Listen without judgment. Allow yourself to be with the music and with however it triggers you. Cry, sing, yell, dance, pray…just allow it all. Music is just one way to trigger sadness. You may find that a walk in the forest, or along the beach, or connecting in some way with nature can trigger sadness for you.

https://donnaashworth.com/when-you-have-lost-someone-you-love/
Do not make the mistake of living in sadness, or living small to honour their absence. You owe it to them to live even more vividly than before. If they could reach you, they would surely say.. "Take the love you had for me and turn it into gladness, use the love you had for me to drive away the sadness.". Love is an energy, so powerful, so

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-02/mermaid-swimmers-find-joy-connection-together/103809790
For many Australians, taking a swim between the flags is a common way to clear the mind. But for these merfolk, wriggling into a tail and donning a crown takes the practice far deeper with

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N4213maKAPI
oin me in this free flow, a blend of EFT tapping and qigong focused on clearing away sadness and inviting joy into your life. Let go of that looming dark clo