Joy is heart medicine.

With it, we’re left with a sense of “wow!” from undivided attention with our senses. With joy being generally fleeting, it seems appropriate to name it’s shrine a temple – as it is temporal; could be a palace too.

Joy restores optimism and resilience-the latter is like having cash in the bank. Feeling joyful enhances immunity and youthfulness.

In the temple of joy, experiences are not just perfect- as in made through and complete, but also excellent. Or at least that’s the goal! After such moments of initiation, we’re left with a sense of wow!

Even if you only lastingly impress one member of a collective – a ripple of responsive reality is created. Restored, we can better focus on what’s in front of us. As one shifts, so does everyone else for as long as a collective stays together.

Joy, spontaneous elation, is not so often as many would have you believe – unless you look for it. In reality it is transitory – but very real and can be built upon.

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Joy has letters J-O-Y. 

J, according to some writings about evolution of language, is from Vau/Vav- and later I, our tack and nail of self.  With joy, we’re zeroed in on Gaia’s forms not G-d’s fantastic forces.

With joy, soma hooks into life as an irresistible attraction – what ears hear, eyes see, and nose smells. Foveas are stimulated such as with spontaneous baby smiles directed at oneself. Savor those moments! They’re priceless!

Joy touches even the hardest of hearts when its medicine is right.

With joy, our face and eyes dance as we come into conscious connection with Gaia’s beauty. Then, our face lights up literally as we radiate biophotons from our face and eyes.

O is Vau/Vau coming to Samech’s alchemical unity; with joy nothing more is required. It is a gift from the heart.In the moment we’re complete.

Y is witnessable as our eyes unfailingly sparkle ever so slightly.

Y is also shares the shape of Aries symbol. With (Ayin’s) ‘Y’, joy is an experience to be shared – so doubly relivable.

(You can make this ‘Aries’ symbol with your body by standing legs together with arms lifted up and out – if you need a quick pick-me-up of joy sensation.)

Because joy is visceral, it leaves a body imprint; its event slightly changes our ‘hum’- at least temporarily.

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Soma l’Oves to feel light and free to pivot when breezes shift. This is what some call elevation – or a veil lifting. (L’Ove is anything that supports your highest expression and evolution of self- your Orphic egg.)

Each time you’re elevated -you bring up your collective’s hum. The more you can sustain this, changes in hertz (and hurts) are more easily stabilized. This is a hallmark of resilience.

Thus it’s strongly encouraged to buy or bring a special totem to represent the occasion, then you strengthen your anchor.

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My favorite joy temple would have fountains encasing the area with finely perfumed spray such as rose in season or perhaps Patou’s Eau de Joy (if they still make it).

Pachelbel’s “Ode to Joy” and Bach’s music are playing.  Some tinkling percussion like piano or strumming guitar to help one shift gears.

There’s a sense of new beginnings with green air plants erupting every few feet. Green is a dominant theme. We feel joy when we’re whole and healed.

There’s a room full of crystals and rainbows – as if you’re walking through them.

(I experience that for real by hanging a faceted lead glass crystal in my window. it is pretty magical when the sun’s just right. Then flashes of rainbows dance on the walls and ceiling. Corny I know, buy hey, it’s helpful!)

There’s a glass tube you walk in under a loud waterfall – percussively landing on top and washing over into ponds on either side- simulating your aura being cleared.  Perhaps there should be an actual wetting station – a baptismal font of sorts set in a lush botanical garden.  

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Joy the word, is related to jouer in French for fun and play. For sensations of joy, your inner kid’s heart is stirred.

So in a temple dedicated to joy there’s likely to all types of playing – including games needing to be developed. This continues the AEIOU medicine theme.

There’s brush and finger-painting; an adult-friendly climbing tree, trampolines, and other gently physical choices for engagement which wow your inner child without stressing it.

We all still have an inner self that likes to paint, climb, caper and gambol. Free play is playing without (mind’s) rules and admonishments- unstructured but could have prompts and outlines.

Perhaps a bank of compound microscopes with pond water, insect wings, and bird’s feathers set on its stage- and nearby sketching stations.

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The temple of joy is a very special place to visit. By its unfamiliarity, each time there is something new and fresh to experience.

(My grandfather had a locked room set up year-round displaying imported Christmas and Hanukkah baubles and garlands. We got to see it maybe 3 times in as many years. Each time, he’d give us a little treat – usually a bag of gold chocolate coins. Even though I knew better, and the chocolate was always stale, it still seemed pretty magical. I could tell he really l’Oved it! That was his temple of joy!)

Also, there’s a ~ waiting period until your appointment to visit – ~ 2 weeks from booking it. Anticipation –heightens awareness for a event. This helps subconscious soma to entrain and shift – even before anything has happened!

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While you can’t visit a place like the temple of joy often, make your own– at home.

Schedule regular times to visit – or have it front and center so you can’t miss it. I have a couple of little set ups; nothing too prominent as they’re meant for me al(l)-one.

Even if you don’t always appreciate it, soma ‘knows’ you’re making space. Visit your space(s). Each time, touch and rearrange your beloved elements intentionally. Then you’ll strengthen your connection to joy as its promised in your life- and attract more as a result.

Happy Easter!