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00:00Okay, day three.
00:27Yep, yep.
00:30Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
00:42Check, check, check.
00:49Testing, testing, testing.
00:54Check, check, check, check, check.
00:55Oh, oh, oh, I'm hearing something.
00:57I'm hearing something maybe a little bit more volume is it okay
01:02good morning early afternoon how are y'all feeling I know you look amazing y'all feeling good
01:10still still feeling the joy yes yes oh y'all got y'all I was at the Janet concert late last night
01:19faces on right now did y'all see that last night oh did y'all see Miss Patty doing the
01:24crip walk baby 78 with good knees goals baby goals that's the that's the black joy for me
01:31well I want to welcome you out to the joy sanctuary here at the wellness house 2022 essence festival of
01:36culture presented by coca-cola my name is Maria Moore and I will be your host today anyone here
01:42from the ATL ever visited the ATL all right so I'm a radio personality in Atlanta and I'm also
01:49wellness coach as well so this particular event and part of the essence festival weekend is very
01:56very close and special to me and today to set the mood to set us up for receiving joy today because
02:05that is what the theme is all about we have coming to the stage it's Demi Austin Thomas and she's going
02:11to be talking about
02:11the joy
02:15good morning
02:29good morning
02:50lots of joy did you show up with some joy today did you show up did y'all stay out late last night
03:05come on but we showing up today with some joy in our lives and i am happy humbled to serve you
03:14today i am demi austin thomas and i am excited to not only be here but this specific topic
03:21temi is so special to me because i struggled in this area of my life of not only finding joy but
03:32knowing if i was worthy of joy has anyone ever felt like that has anyone ever felt like that come on i
03:41know y'all don't wake up every day and say i just i'm just feeling joy today there are moments in our
03:47lives when we just feel like joy didn't find us today right and so we're going to be talking about
03:56how to manifest love and find joy in our lives and so i believe that we are all capable of
04:07manifesting the kind of joy that not only we need but the kind of joy that we deserve in our life
04:16everything in your life that you desire i believe that you can have it do you believe no let me ask
04:23you again do you believe that you can have joy and i'm talking about the kind of joy that just oozes
04:32in and through your life most people think that manifestation is not a very real thing
04:41but it is a real thing manifestation is the ability to attract and bring into your life those tangible
04:49and intangible things that you desire through attraction and through belief there is a quote
04:59by bob proctor that says that if you see it in your mind you can have it in your hand i want to change
05:07bob's quote up and because i believe not only can you have it in your hand but you can have it into
05:13your heart your life your relationships every space of your life that you embody and i showed up all the way
05:23all the way from dallas texas all the way from dallas texas all the way from dallas texas to remind you
05:30my sisters my queens not just how beautiful you are but to inspire you to remind you to ignite you to
05:37provoke you to push you into the place of not just purpose but the promise of joy that sits in your life
05:45the kind of joy that you deserve is that all right so we're going to take just a few minutes
05:54to talk a little bit about joy go back up here on the stage and i want us to do something here
06:06i want you to close your eyes all over the building close your eyes and i want you to sit
06:15with yourself for just a second for just a moment
06:19and i want you to envision to feel joy to imagine joy to see joy
06:35sit with it for just a moment for just a moment sit with it sit with it feel it feel it
06:45and i want you to reach out and just grab it bring it in bring it in grab it
06:56you can open your eyes
06:59most people relate joy
07:04to a feeling
07:08but i i don't believe that joy is just a feeling
07:13because i know about me and i can go from feeling happy to sad in 0.5 seconds
07:22feelings and emotions are not always facts they're fleeting joy when you have the abundance of joy
07:33in your life abundance is and joy is the state of being joy is that when life is happening all
07:44around you with your children and your family your relationships your circumstances when the job
07:51gives you your walking papers when he walks in and out of your life or maybe he leaves your life
07:59when life is happening joy is your anchor it's your state of being it's your mindset it is the
08:08consciousness of you being content that whatever happens in life i still have my joy
08:15it is that whoever and whatsoever happens i am not moved by the ways of life i still have joy
08:25can anybody relate
08:26i want us today to
08:31i had you close your eyes for a moment because we're talking about manifesting
08:38joy in our life and many of us are just existing doing our day-to-day but we're not quite living
08:49i had you close your eyes because joy starts with you envisioning and seeing what joy feels and looks like to you
08:59i want to say that joy will not look like your mother's your father's joy is your own vision
09:08of what you want for your life in every capacity in every area of your life in your relationships
09:18dancing moving throughout the world traveling what are the things that you've talked about doing
09:26and you put it on the back burner the things that you talked about starting and you still hadn't
09:33started we've been in a tumultuous two years of a pandemic and it has been devastating it has been
09:41painful but it has been purposeful and even in the midst of those painful moments some of us didn't lose
09:49our joy but some of us today need to find that joy and i'm hoping that today something that i say
09:57will stir you and to remind you of how to tap in to your joy so the first thing i want you to do
10:04when you leave this place is that you have to envision it you have to see it because joy is not
10:11only a vision but through creative imagination you have the ability to attract and bring the things
10:18that you want into your life but you have to see it i created a vision board y'all see my little vision
10:23board i created this in february i knew nothing about uh you know any connections related to essence
10:34festival i said that i want to be a dynamic woman of dallas because i'm from dallas texas honey
10:41i want to travel more i uh want to do more with my family i wanted another big home i want another
10:50mistake i want a yacht okay if i can't get the yacht maybe i can get the boat you know i'm saying
10:55a little tugboat or something okay but it's on there right and so i have all of these things on my vision
11:01board i want to experience unstoppable breakthroughs flowing in my life and then i also have essence
11:10fest isn't that something i just created that in february had no connections all i said is i want
11:21that to happen i didn't know how it was going to happen but i said i just believe it's going to happen
11:28where am i at i'm at the essence fest with my sisters and brothers and this is manifestation of
11:38joy in my life you can do the same thing your vision how many of you create vision boards i just
11:50created my vision board in february most people have to start them in december january i say start
11:56them when now right now you have to see yourself in your vision you have to see yourself in your vision
12:05so that you can attract and believe and bring those things into your life you want to be married
12:12other people who are in here are not married i'm seeing some heads like yes you got to see yourself
12:16married i was just telling my stylist shamika just a few weeks ago she was talking about how
12:22she wants to be married i said where's your vision board what does your dress look like what
12:27where are you going to have the wedding she thought i was crazy ma'am
12:30we have to start taking action and taking ownership of our vision you want to start a business
12:39where's your blueprint have you started it what does it look like you can only you
12:46can manifest your vision for your life and if that brings you joy since you have the responsibility
12:54to make it happen so you have to envision it you have to see it when you get back to your
13:01state to your home i want you to go find a vision board and find you some get your listen this cost me
13:08a dollar and 79 cents honey magazines and some glue and a poster board and put your vision together for
13:17your life living with intention experience the unexpected all the things that you want to bring into
13:24your life you can do it as a reminder place it in your bathroom place it in your living room wherever
13:32so that you can have a reminder of seeing what that looks like every day now let me tell you this in
13:38order to have the vision you got to work the vision too right somebody say you got to work it sis
13:44you got to work it because we can post you know all about it on social media about what we want to do
13:51we can take the glue out honey and we can just glue all day but you have to work it you have to work
13:58it you can't expect anyone else to take your vision and work it this is your joy that you want to bring
14:04into your life so you got to work it and you have to see it the next thing is that we have to speak it
14:10now my power source and my framework comes from a very spiritual and christian foundation so whatever
14:16your source is if i use scripture like don't don't give me a side eye okay but connecting to your source
14:24speaking those things as though they already are we have the ability to speak it speaking joy into our
14:34lives let me tell you something that we do as black women we are aunts daughters sisters mothers and wives
14:43we're women who show up in our community in corporate america in our churches and you know what we do
14:50with our family with our chill our children we speak over everything and everybody don't we we lift them up
14:59we affirm them but we don't do it for ourselves the power of affirmation is a gift to you that you give
15:08yourself every day stop looking for the world to affirm your amazingness stop looking for the world
15:17to validate you i'm 46 years old i struggle with anxiety and every day i wrote i know my husband this
15:26is my husband over here a little chocolate guy right there and and and and i i know he's sick of me
15:32writing on all the mirrors in our bathroom because i write affirmations all over them i know he has
15:38to find somewhere like to see himself i am more than enough i'm blessed i'm blessed coming today is my
15:45day what are the affirmations that you are feeding yourself these are affirmations to remind you of
15:52just how amazing you are how needed you are how remarkable you are you are an atmosphere changer you need to
16:01tell yourself that you need to remind yourself of just that you know i like to define words of affirmation
16:10as words that i that you can feel f-e-e-l because sometimes we just need to feel those words so that they
16:23feel us up f-i-l-l i want to remind you today that it is your responsibility to speak over yourself
16:37to affirm yourself every day in who you are and then you have to also believe what you speak
16:47thoughts become things thoughts become things thoughts become things and when we're talking
16:56about manifesting joy into our lives you have to understand that there is an opposition and there
17:02is a resistance that's taking place
17:07the opposition and the resistance is that the enemy the adversary the world does not want you to
17:13believe who god says that you are you have to believe and break through the limiting beliefs
17:23anybody struggle with limiting beliefs those negative thought patterns you have the ability to disrupt them
17:32by positive thinking and it is not always for some people an overnight thing for me it is an everyday
17:40thing breaking through those negative cycles breaking through those negative thought patterns you have
17:47the ability to speak and to believe about yourself who you say you are i don't care what your mama said you
17:54wasn't i'm talking about who do you believe that you are i'm amazing i'm beautiful without the makeup
18:03without the lashes without the hair you are beautiful you are amazing you are unique and you are
18:09necessary you are valuable you are wonderful and you are needed you have to believe that every single
18:17day use this as a moment to reflect and to focus on all of your superpowers and what you bring to the table
18:24you're not just showing up in corporate america making things go running with your gifts and your talents
18:30you are showing up because there's something on the inside of you
18:33you that your company sees in values speak to her speak to who you are not how the world defines you
18:46we have to break through not only those limiting beliefs but the generational cycles the generational word
18:54curses that have been spoken over us that we have believed you are not those things
19:01so after moving from seeing it and speaking it and believing it that joy belongs to you
19:11you have to heal those spaces in your heart to be open to receive not just love but the joy that you deserve
19:22what do i mean we have to prioritize our self-healing we have to prioritize our inner healing the work
19:33on the inside of us it's so easy to blame isn't it what they did to you but you have to show up as your authentic
19:42self saying i'm here yielding myself to not only serve but to heal it is your responsibility to prioritize your self-healing
19:56many of us are stuck and we are paralyzed from receiving joy into our lives because we're stuck on what they said
20:04about us we're stuck on who broke our heart who left us who disappointed us all of the things that you
20:13feel are valid but there was a time and there was a season and i believe that season is now to release
20:22and let it go so that you can attract and magnetize and live and walk in the fullness
20:31of the joy that you are deserving of do you believe that do you believe that put your hands on your
20:40heart and say i am ready to be healed i am ready to be healed
20:50last but not least it is our responsibility that even with the family members that we love our friends
20:58when joy finds us it is our responsibility to fiercely protect it because if this joy that i have honey
21:08listen the world cannot take it away only if i give it to them protect your joy with boundaries
21:21boundaries boundaries somebody's giving me the peace sign boundaries are never for them it's for you
21:32the thing that you love the thing that you value when you hold on to that thing it's the thing that you
21:36will protect you and defend your joy joy is showing up for us every day we have a responsibility to
21:46consciously show up with it i encourage you today that if you find yourself stuck to search your heart
21:56and to ask yourself what is keeping me from not moving forward in the fullness
22:03of joy and the abundance of all of the things that i embody and that i want to do
22:09we have to see it we have to speak it we have to believe it we have to heal it and we have to protect
22:20and defend it and most of all you have to work it every single day it has been my my pleasure of sharing
22:30with you showing up today with gratitude i'm hoping that there may be some questions i'm not sure but if you
22:36have questions please at this time we wanted to have a little bit of a q a testing okay good morning
22:51my name is dr sojourner gibbs and i just want to say thank you not as much as a question but just to thank
22:57you for this uh pouring in you gave us yes because you know what we come in here full of whatever
23:03experiences we may have had but you just helped to overflow me with joy and i appreciate you
23:08and i thank you and i want to send the same back to you because this was amazing oh thank you very
23:13much thank you thank you thank you thank you so much thank you i received that sister
23:21question here
23:22hi um my name is hello hi i'm from south africa i wanted to ask a question south africa yes i wanted
23:38to ask a question um how do you find joy in the healing process because a lot of the time we all
23:42speak about the end of the healing process when you found yourself but like the in between the journey
23:49where you lose yourself where you feel lost confused don't know where to go like how do you
23:54find joy in that process as it it's very taxing and it's very easy to go back to the way you were
24:00before yeah that's a very good question um what i would say to you for me joy has been what i share
24:08with my clients i love the power of journaling journaling it is so powerful and releasing at the same time
24:16i think it's also important to remember your goal is joy you know time is fleeting and it's so easy
24:26for us to revert and go back to our old ways of thinking you have to constantly be reminding yourself
24:34i don't think that joy is an overnight thing i think it's an everyday situation that you have to
24:39work towards it's a goal every single day of reminding yourself and standing firm not just in
24:45the affirmation of who you are but in the promise of i am not going to allow myself to be defeated
24:50today even when it comes to disappointment heartbreak in our lives at some point you have to make a
24:56conscious decision to say when am i going to release it and let it go it served its person it served it
25:04it served its purpose but you are always in control you are in control because we have the mindset of
25:13believing that that narrative we that it controls us you have the power you have the ability to speak to
25:20it you have the ability to move through it you just have to do it and i think it's more of a conscious
25:28decision of truly putting your words into action because it's so easy for us to stay a victim
25:38it's easier isn't it it's easy to be a victim but at some point i want to live in the space of victory
25:48and not defeat so it's a constant reminder it's a constant reminder and i also like the idea of
25:54journaling so you know releasing those negative thoughts you know what i mean sometimes we just need
26:00a space where we can dump i also think it's important for you to have a um a tribe of processing
26:07partners who can you can share you know just some of your challenges and be vulnerable with them but
26:13yet people in your life who are not afraid to also tell you okay sis we're moving forward today
26:20what are we going to do differently and you have to be open to hear them and you have to be ready to move
26:25does that answer your question yes we can do one more question if anybody has one
26:39good morning
26:44oh she's going to bring you the mic yes thank you so right now uh i am in the midst of a trial okay so
26:53just looking for some real tools some real things that i can utilize even in the midst because most of
27:02the time some of the tools that i have learned may or may not be right now tools or things that i can
27:12shift to i mean of course prayer is number one uh so that has definitely been a constant so very grateful
27:20and thankful and thankful and absolutely giving myself grace for that however i am also looking
27:27for the additional tools and things that i can use even in the midst yeah so you said a word there grace
27:37so i was going to say grace and grit to process through grace and grit um the other thing i don't know if you
27:45are um seeking therapy therapy is good we need people in our lives on the sideline who can champion
27:51us who can be honest with us find a therapist find a coach find your processing partners you know i
27:57believe in the power of affirmation but yet i also believe that you have to be willing to do the work
28:05and your trial is the trial it's it's your trial you have the ability to speak to this trial
28:13or you can just stay stuck and allow this trial to imprison you you understand what i'm saying
28:20so i don't know exactly what your situation is um i would love to speak with you one-on-one
28:26to kind of give you a little bit more because i would like to know a little bit more context
28:29of what's happening to kind of give you the actual tools that may help you because we could say so
28:34many different things but what's the thing that you need for you today is that okay okay
28:44no thank you thank you all so much
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