Trust Your Joy

Hi Bashar. I know you good day. I want to thank you for the enormous help you've given me over the last few years. We thank you for helping yourself. And now as I'm coming face to face with myself... Yes. Do you like what you see? Yeah, more and more. All right, more and more. Exploring what it means for me to play. Yes. Yes. Remember that what it means for you to play is determined by the meaning you choose to give it. The meaning isn't built in. Right. All right. Well, I've noticed that usually involves being in the moment. Usually, yes. And... Unless you are choosing to play at not being in the moment. Yeah. That's the only exception. Okay. Yeah, I figured that out then. Oh, thank you. And usually... Yes. Usually. It involves... me keeping my word to myself. Yes. Me giving my word and keeping it. Yes. For only you give yourself reasons not to. But then you are keeping another kind of word. Remember that you are never not really keeping your word. It's just that sometimes you change what the word is that you're keeping. Okay. You never don't trust. You never don't have faith. You never don't keep your word. You just change the word. the word you're keeping. Decide what word you want to keep and keep that. Yeah. All right. And also I've noticed that my... Usually. No, not this is now. Oh, all right. That my left eye is a lot bigger and brighter and clear when it used to be all squinty and red. Oh, why? Usually with a headache. Yes, very good. And I'm a... I'm a... I'm assuming that's a reflection that I'm like using my right brain. And you are assuming that because... Because you told me I should use my right brain. All right. But that's not why you're assuming it. It's not because I told you so. Well, you told me my dog was circling to the left because I was... That's not why either. You are assuming this because... This is not a trick question. I'm blank. You're not assuming this because this is what you prefer to assume. Oh, okay. Simple, wasn't it? All right. See, no tricks. So it's not... Just obvious. That's not why, then. I just told you that's why. Oh, okay. So, um... I have a question about... Oh, all right. Surprise. One of my most fervent passions is... Yes. Most fervent passion. Is... Yes. Yes. to communicate with animals and take care of them. Yes. Especially my own. All right. And? So? And so... Are your actions commensurate then with this passion? Usually. There's the usually. All right. I knew it would sneak in there sometime. But, you know, the maintenance of daily maintenance... One moment. May I remind you that even though I understand...

Surprise. One of my most fervent passions is... Yes. Most fervent passion. Is... Yes. Yes. to communicate with animals and take care of them. Yes. Especially my own. All right. And? So? And so... Are your actions commensurate then with this passion? Usually. There's the usually. All right. I knew it would sneak in there sometime. But, you know, the maintenance of daily maintenance... One moment. May I remind you that even though I understand... that following your passion will not always result in exactly the same opportunity for the same actions all the time. I do want to remind you that in a general sense, the term, fervent passion, and usually... Don't go together. If it is a fervent passion, then it is always. Not usually. Right. You're getting the point. Yeah. All right. And so... So how can I redefine, you know, the drudgery of... The what? The what? How can you redefine? Like every other day, it feels like, you know, taking care of them. What are you defining as drudgery? For that is your definition? Cleaning the cages and taking up the poop and, you know, all of that. Why is that drudgery? Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's fun. Then why is it fun sometimes and not fun other times? Well, that's it. Yes, well answer the question. Why is it fun sometimes? What's going on within you when it's fun that's different than what's going on within you when it's not? Because sometimes it seems like it'd be more fun to do something else. That's not it. What's going on within you when it's fun as opposed to what's going on? on within you when it's not? What's the difference? What's the real difference dynamically within you? Within your definitions, within your energies, within your beliefs. What is different between the times it seems like fun and the times it does not? I'm being lazy. What does that mean? I don't want to do it. Why not? Why not? I want to goof off. I want to water the lawn instead. Why is that goofing off? Why is that goofing off? What, watering the lawn? Yes. What? That's, I mean, that's more fun. That's more fun. Why? It's always fun. Why? All right. I'll ask you this way. Do you believe that if you then go and water your lawn that somehow the animals will be being neglected? Sometimes, yeah. I feel like where I should be feeding them, you know, and I'm putting off feeding them. All right. Do you know why you are having this dichotomy? Why? Because you are creating there to be a dichotomy between the ideas. of different things as expressions of your joy. Right. And you're not trusting that if your joy, in fact, does shift into another action, that somehow that means something else is being neglected, which means you don't trust your joy. Exactly. So why do you have that definition? Well, that was my other question.

you know why you are having this dichotomy? Why? Because you are creating there to be a dichotomy between the ideas. of different things as expressions of your joy. Right. And you're not trusting that if your joy, in fact, does shift into another action, that somehow that means something else is being neglected, which means you don't trust your joy. Exactly. So why do you have that definition? Well, that was my other question. You said once here that if you're doing your joy, then it doesn't matter at the end of the day. Yes. Then you've done everything. you need to do that day. But going into it the way you're going into it doesn't allow the timing to work itself out synchronistically because you're putting a specific spin on the idea of what you're doing. If you were truly trusting that your joy in its shifts was really all right, then everything would work itself out and you would find yourself with the correct amount of time and being in joy with the things that really need doing. What about the idea? Like, you know, all of a sudden, your interest shifts, something else being more exciting at that moment to do, and then you don't complete what you're doing. You didn't hear what I just told you. I'll say it again. If you understand how to trust your joy, then you will know and you will experience that when your joy shifts, it will do so in such a way that it will create the time you need to do the other things in a joyful way. Okay. Your assumption that it won't is what's creating the dichotomy in your experience. Okay. Do you understand? Yeah. All right. Thank you. Thank you.