You are the Universe
Tell Me About Your Joy Today!
Stand up. Yes, please, right in this moment. Okay, I’m doing it too! Standing up! Then put your hands up to the sky! Extend. Exhale. Feel your fingertips touching the Universe, and extend yourself into everything around you!
Now, see you are this same space you just reached into. Huh? Yes, all the same. Feel it.
Did you actually just stand up and put your hands up to the sky? Yes?
If you did, put those two hands together and give yourself some applause. A few claps of those two hands together for you, in this very moment. Because you fucking deserve it.
Have you yet to stand up?
What the fuck you waiting for, my friend?
Raise those hands into the sky! Feel yourself in this moment! Feel your essence, your nature, your interbeing with everything!
Extend — extend into what you are. You are the Universe, how this Universe experiences this experience.
How can we be anything else?
Oh, I know — we have forgotten our space of space. The space which is us. Is there even a separate space of space?
See we aren’t separate spaces of space as humans — we are this same space.
That’s a lot of spaces in a few sentences.
Listen to this. Not only are you the same nature around you, stardust, carbon, matter, you are it. You are nature, now zoom out, we know the Earth is an aspect of the Universe. Hey so are you!
But think bigger! Extend as far as you can imagine. Think of our Universe, and in this one there are billions of galaxies just like our Milky Way. Zoom even further out, now see the branch-like connection of all Universe(s) we know may exist. We are this too.
Now, imagine stretching yourself into that. For all of it is you too. No, sorry to say, you have not upgraded to a deity. You are what some call the ground of being, some call the Great Spirit, some call God. It’s all us, it’s all one.
So is that rock over there. Or that unsolved mystery with the dried flower.
You are those same leaves you walk upon. Or someday will be, or were. A part of you mattered, could have been once the same water you drink. You are those same atoms.
Have you given those electrons a good raise to the sky yet?
Have you used those miracles of ears to hear someone you love today? Or music?
What have you done for the beautiful aspect of the Universe that is you, today?
What joy have you created for yourself today?
Sometimes we're blessed with joy, sometimes we bless ourselves with joy.
Why you still haven't stood up and raised your hands to the sky I don't know.
Oh, you want some Science behind the benefits of putting your hands in the air and creating joy?
Okay, Science lovers here you go.
Tell me what joyful moment you have had today!?
Seriously, I'd love to read about it, so highlight that question and put some letters in a row and tell me about your joy today. Please : ) This is the title of the piece after all — because really the whole point of these words is for a little bit of joy today.
They’re infused with joy. I write in joy now too. Heart to fingers, to screen to your screen, to eyes and hopefully to heart, to some joy.
So here you are in this experience that is you, the Universe, the All being you. I mean how fucking cool is this?
Why?
Like, why even have this Universe?
Who the fuck cares. Today just extend your fingertips into the sky.
Take a deep breath (of another aspect of the same nature which is you) of air.
Breathe deep. You are alive, dear one.
For right now the why doesn't matter.
What matters is you are alive, Universe in motion.
“Like the ocean waves, the Universe peoples. ~Alan Watts
Are half of these letters making no sense? Eh, doesn’t matter. Probably, ha, but just know today, you deserve applause!!!
I am standing up for you, the Universe that is you, raising my hands to the sky, and bringing them together in this moment and applauding you.
:: listen to the narration for your applause today::
(at the 7-minute timestamp)
Still clapping.
I sure hope you know how fucking radical you are, dear human. Now go forth and be Love today.
Be the Universe in motion, loving, just you are.
There's no where else you need to be but here, now. Because there's only one place you can be, this now.
Dear Being, make your joy today then come back and tell me about it. We will have a joy loop when I read too!
Right now, my joy moment is thinking about you reading this and maybe even smiling a little. That makes me smile.
I am very happy in this now.
Are you?
Why not?
Being happy is much more fun. ;)
With radical love,
~namaste~
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As of now, our human narrations are NOT calculated into our read time earnings. (Ai listening is, human narrations bypass any earnings) So if you listen, it would be a great help to us if you could also scroll through/read along. Thank you for listening!
Dear Tony Stubblebine,
Could we please make human narrations a priority here on Medium in the year of peace, 2023? It would be a wonderful gift for us! Hearing the human heart behind the words brings all of our hearts closer together in humanity. And good gracious do we need this. <3