Joy Stealers: 5 Things That Steal Your Joy
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Are you feeling down in the dumps lately? Have you lost your joy? Many people suffering from depression and sadness often feel like they can’t laugh or enjoy life anymore. They feel robbed of any level of joy or happiness. Some even say they can’t remember when the last time was that they laughed.
If you’re feeling this way right now, you need to recognize the things that steal your joy. When you can understand the things that take away your joy in life, you’ll learn how to deal with them to create a more blissful state of mind and life.
Joy-Stealers
1. Anxiety – Anxiety plays an intense role in many adults. Constant worry about bills or financial problems is almost always the thing that brings about anxiety for most people. Curb your anxiety with meditation and prayer. Also consider your diet, as some foods can cause an increase in your level of anxiety as well.
2.Family Strife – Problems in the family will steal your joy every single time. Squabbles with your family members will leech your joy from your soul. Learn how to deal with each situation as it occurs and let it go.
3. Clutter – If there’s one thing that steals joy, it’s a house full of clutter. A messy house leads to anxiety, stress, and tension all the way around. To keep the clutter to a minimum without getting overwhelmed, start organizing one room at a time. Then put each member of your family in charge of keeping a specific area clean and organized.
4. Jealousy – Have you ever been on the receiving end of someone’s jealousy? If so, you probably watched as that person’s attitude and demeanor shifted from being pleasant to rotten. Jealousy will eat away at you from the inside out until you don’t even recognize yourself anymore. If you feel jealous, stop and ask yourself why. Then ask for forgiveness for being jealous. When you do, you’ll feel a load lift and your joy return.
5. Anger – Anger is one of the worst joy-stealers. Seeds of malice sown in your heart will bloom and grow into huge, ugly things. Harsh words spoken in a heated moment can never be taken back. Learn to control your anger and your tongue. Be quick to forgive and your joy won’t suffer.
Remember, nothing can steal your joy unless you allow it to. Be joyful every day!
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Christian joy, although we often feel it is stolen from us, we mostly give it away to worldly thoughts, desires and sin. As someone who has been diagnosed with massive depressive disorder, I often miss the joy in life for whatever the reason may be. However, I am thankful for God's salvation and for Him using me in the ministry. I'm also thankful my therapist and doctors are Christians - we are all on the same page. Great hub and keep up the inspiring writing.
Inspiring articles. Clutter indeed can create unnecessary stress. Cleanliness and order is great for health, physical and emotional. Thanks a lot.
1 and 2 are my lists biggest problems and guess what I just held onto them for no reason at all. I now have a solution and fell more relaxed and more on top of my game!
Very nice hub, thank you again for sharing and I agree there are too many things which steal our joy. We tend to dwell on the bad stuff instead of being thankful.
Great hub!
Hello this was a very interesting read. Lots of helpful information. I hope to read more of your work soon. I do not usually feel depressed but some days are a little less easy to deal with that others Well hope you get to read some of my work. God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Great hub!
As a mental health clinician, I see client struggling with all of these all the time.
I'm all for positive psychology, and taking that stance that we are in charge of our own lives and our own happiness.
LOL! So glad you're enjoying my HubPages. :)
Guess it was meant to be for me to read your hubs today, cause I'm struggling with #2, #3, and #5! ha thanks again
katrinasui Level 3 Commenter 19 months ago
I am struggling with 1 and 5. Its true that these things steal our joy.