03/10/2026
“You become what you focus on”. ~ Swami Premodaya
Can you contact joy within you? Joy is a strong force of attraction. God is more attracted to you, truth is more attracted to you, if you are in contact with joy. Everything is more attractive if joy is present, not blocked, not covered over, if joy is being meditated on.
So you can do this in daily life. Every time you notice (and you notice many times in the day) how you are having a negative thought, how you are focused on something that is depressing, how you are saying something negative to yourself, that can become a cue to turn your thoughts to thoughts of joy—to taking just those few seconds of noticing and contacting joy within you, instead of going along with the problem thought, the negative thought, the unsatisfactory idea, the feeling of something not being right. You can immediately stop that feeling. You can immediately stop that thought in the moment, dead in its tracks, and replace it with a moment of contacting joy. That is changing your meditation in mid-stream—changing the negative habitual meditation, into a positive one.
