What can babies teach us about joy?

Babies…They are open to feel without any regard to hold back – they don’t have a reason to hold back any feeling – there’s no ‘me’ to protect or ‘other’ to possibly offend, just free to feel and express anything that arises in the moment. Having said that, it seems that the emotion that is most common in babies is joy! So that is cool to reflect on – that fact that joy is so natural for us creatures to experience, and (i might add) it is the most enjoyable. Most babies are loved well, shown attention and affection, and are able to trust their care-givers to keep them safe. So there is a very loving environment that allows for joy to freely blossom, and for the human spirit to feel and express its natural self without any hindrances. Let’s embrace the love, care and trusting support of life, people in our lives, each day, as to nourish the inner environment of our spirits to be free to experience and feel any emotion that comes up, and see how the joy will bubble up and surprise us more often than we might expect. …just some thoughts and observations on the topic, not sure if they are all true 🙂 We can receive the support and love of truth each day, as if truth were the loving presence of a parent of the inner little child that is our true eternal human spirit (eternal as in, the same when we were just born as it is when we are 92). May we create the receptive environment of love and truth and support somewhere in our lives each day, allowing space for that spontaneous nature within to spring to life naturally…As a seed naturally sprouts up without effort and can’t be anything other than the life is was created to be when its nestled in its proper growing environment. Although the outer world around us is constantly changing, taking us through tumultuous seasons, times of uncertainty and also high joyous times, there is an untouched inner wellspring that never changes, where conditions are eternal, giving life to the growing seed of our human spirit.