JoyScope

Welcome to your daily Joy-Scope!

Disillusioned with the traditional horoscope which can be less than supportive and sometimes not entirely accurate (shock!), I decided to create the alternative "Joy-scope"!

My intention is to uplift and inspire. I hope you enjoy these messages and please feel free to share your comments too!

JoyScope: Wednesday 22nd February 2012

When you need good advice, who do you turn to? Do you have supportive and life-affirming friends who hold your best interests at heart? Do you have a coach or mentor that can help you to make sense of difficult situations or challenges? Do you have a partner who knows you intimately and always finds a way to say exactly the right thing at the right time? Well maybe you do and maybe you don't have one or more of these, but what you definitely have is an inner guru who is perfectly placed to point you in the right direction or offer a helping hand. Your inner guru is the wiser, all-knowing, infinite part of you and it is always present and always listening. Can you say the same thing? We tend to get caught up in our world of thoughts and business and forget to pay attention to the messages from our soul. So today take time to tune in and take note. After all, your inner guru is the only one that has lived every experience with you!

JoyScope: Tuesday 21st February

Do you sense your connection to the Divine? When we disconnect from the source energy of all that is, our lives become an uphill struggle. We slip into patterns of fighting and pushing for what we want, rather than allowing and accepting. Bizarrely, the more that we surrender to what is, the more we invite the very objects and experiences that we desire to find us. Surrender is not the same as giving up. Surrender is the willingness to turn challenges and situations to a higher power, trusting that everything will unfold perfectly. Even when things don't appear to be going to plan, it is the willingness to stay trusting and have faith that it will work out. So today the JoyScope would like you to scan your life and find the places where you are hanging on to old battles or struggles. When you discover these energy drains, just gently let go. Say "I release this experience. Thank you. I love you", and move on. Let go, let it be, let love in!

JoyScope: Monday 20th February 2012

Do you find yourself starting the day contemplating your "to-do" list? Perhaps you begin by running a mental movie of everything that needs to get done, all the places you need to be, conversations and meetings that need to be held, and so on. Do you give yourself the gift of also considering how you want to be feeling as you are going through your day? Usually we get so focused on the action part of our journey that we don't take the time or space to reflect on how we want to be as a person living our day. If we haven't pre-paved the experiences we want to have, we are really relying on a hit and miss approach. Maybe we will be lucky and be in the right (emotional) place at the right time or maybe not. Do you want to leave it to chance? Instead, we can spend a little more time finding ways to feel good. It may seem as though you are too busy to take time out, but as our emotional state will dictate our productivity and success anyway, you haven't really got time not to!

JoyScope: Friday 17th February

Ever find yourself in that pattern of thought that says "when I get all of this done, then I will relax"? Ever have times when the point of relaxation never seems to appear? When we believe that relaxation is a reward for efforting and hard work, we actually set ourselves up for a never-ending cycle of struggle. That is because instead of bringing us peace and calmness, forcing ourselves to get things done just creates even more things that require our attention and time. If we know that we are the creators of our own reality, we know that the energy of what we are doing attracts more situations that are a vibrational match to our emotional state. Even if we are sceptical, there have probably been times that you can recall when you have tried to take rapid action to get something done and out of the way, only to find it snowballs into a much more complex or time-consuming task. For example, you decide to shoot off a quick email and your computer or internet crashes or you are preparing for guests and rushing to clean the house when the vacuum decides to blow out rather than suck up! So why wait for relaxation? Make that the number one priority in your life. It will make everything much easier in the long run!

JoyScope: Thursday 16th February 2012

Do you celebrate your miracles in life? We are surrounded by magic every day, yet we don't always take time to acknowledge and appreciate them. Short of ideas? Just look to the natural world. What about the fact that the earth spins around the sun every three hundred and sixty five and a quarter days (I'm sure nature threw in that last quarter just for fun!)? What about water? It is composed of two different elements, naturally occurring as gases that combine to form a liquid that life depends upon. Or trees? Take a huge oak tree that has probably existed for hundreds of years. Imagine what it has witnessed and the stories of life it could tell. And what about you? Isn't it a miracle that you are here, a mass of energy that vibrates at such a high frequency that you appear to have a physical form? You are the biggest miracle in your life, so go on, take a big bow and hear the applause!

JoyScope: Wednesday 15th February 2012

Living an inspired life is a balancing act. The Law of Attraction says that in order to manifest what we desire, we have to become a match vibrationally for what we want. That means staying focused on the positives and filtering our experience for the positive aspects and attributes. Yet, when we become too hung up on staying positive, that can have a detrimental effect too. It is absolutely about choosing to ignore the unwanted, but when we deny our true feelings and try to act positive whilst our emotions are telling us something different, we are only fooling ourselves, and the Law of Attraction will continue to bring us what we are vibrationally in alignment with rather than what we hope for. From time to time, we may need to face a gremlin or two. We may be challenged to deal with beliefs or thought patterns that continue to hold us back. When we find that we can't simply turn around because something unwanted has our attention, then we just need to be gentle and soothe that part of us that is fearful or sad or angry. When we take care of our emotions, our emotions take care of us.

JoyScope: Tuesday 14th February 2012

What is love? The general belief is that when we experience those feelings and sensations associated with love, that it is down to the object of our affection. We talk of falling in love when we meet that special someone who matches our wishes and desires. Someone who makes us feel good when we are in their presence. Someone who behaves in a way that meets or even exceeds our expectations. In fact, falling in love is an inside job. Its not that we fall in love with the other person so much as that in focusing on their most positive attributes and qualities, we raise our own vibration and create the state of love inside of ourselves. Its great to have an object of desire to flow our appreciation towards but if we make it all about the other person, our loving state is potentially jeopardised. What happens if that other person behaves in a way that is less than our expectations or worse still, withdraws their love altogether. Then our love is diminished or even disappears. If we remember that we fall in love not because of the other person, but because of the story we are telling ourselves in that moment, our state of love is solidified. Love becomes a choice rather than dependent on anyone or anything. Simply put, we love because we are love. 

JoyScope: Monday 13th February 2012

How we feel about our surrounding environment really matters. Both at work and at home, our habitat will either be soul-nourishing and uplifting or depleting valuable energy and well-being. Whether or not you live in your dream house or work in a perfect workspace, there are some small adjustments that will make a big difference. What can you add to make your environment more inspiring? Well, good lighting is essential, especially in the darker months. Natural daylight is perfect, but if that is not available, you can buy lightbulbs that mimic the natural light of the sun. A few strategically placed lamps can work wonders. And bringing nature inside can also help. Cut flowers or a plant pot brighten any environment. Even if you are limited by what you can add to your space, little mementos or photographs can remind you of good times and reactivate all of those feel-good vibrations! Why not even go all out and create a little alter or reflection space of your favourite things. Make your space work for you!

JoyScope: Friday 10th February 2012

There's a great deal to be said for good preparation. Yet when we talk about preparing, we probably think of action plans and to-do lists. How often do we really consider preparing ourselves for the situation? How much time do we give ourselves to get into the right mood or emotional state to make the most of our experiences? If our lives are busy, we may be running from appointments to commitments without taking the space to pause in between. It could be that we arrive at work, still reeling from a family disagreement or we come home to our family with a mind full of work challenges. We struggle to stay present when talking with loved ones and friends or we go to bed with the weight of the day still hanging heavy and have a sleepless and restless night. Today, master the art of pausing. Take just a few moments between each event and experience to bring all of your attention back into the moment. Be all of you in every situation and the quality of your life with dramatically and instantly improve.

JoyScope: Thursday 9th February 2012

Today the JoyScope invites you to be gentle. Gentleness is hugely under-rated. When we are kind and loving towards our self and others, we lower our resistance and bring ourselves into alignment with life. When you catch yourself driving hard to make things happen, stop trying to push the river, and instead find ways to go with the flow. You may need to take a step back from your current circumstances and challenges, and put your attention on your inner world of thoughts, feelings and emotions. Rather than trying to resolve situations through forcing action, find inspiration through reflection, contemplation and meditation. Tread gently through your life and allow peace and tranquility to flood in!