World View Perspective: Joy is spiritual, misery is experienced in the body
Throughout the human lifetime, we go through many cycles of conscious awareness, allowing us to experience joy and misery. Joy is a positive, high vibration that uplifts us, expands us and allows us to feel elated and inspired. Misery is a heaviness, spiraling downward energy that can ground us to a halt. It weighs on us as if something is holding us down against our natural positive state of mind. When our heart is light and open with joy, we feel much more in touch with an expanded consciousness, which enhances our spirit and our life. A joyful state of mind and being keeps us much more in touch with who we are. Misery is a stuck, unhappy energy that makes our system dull, negative and even toxic. We try to hide our misery in many ways often because we don't recognize it or know how to handle it or deal with it properly. Our spirit, on the other hand, can lift that heavy burden off of us and refresh our system with the light-heartedness o...