Guided visualization · 6 min
Awakening Your Joy
Start the day light-hearted, with joy that feels like yours again, as if you're a child let loose in a sunflower field.
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- Level
- Beginner friendly
- Style
- Guided visualization
- Sound
- Voice only
- Best time
- Early morning
About this session
- Lifts your mood
- Awakens playfulness
- Clears mental clutter
- Renews your energy
Agapi Stassinopoulos guides you through a short breathing practice built around colour. You take in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and lavender one at a time, then gather them with a white light into a great rainbow arching over you. From there you wander through a field of sunflowers.
It suits anyone who wants to feel lighter and more playful. Use it when you wake up to set the tone for the day, or in the evening to shake off heaviness. It is brief enough to fit in before work, between tasks or at bedtime.
After the session
01
A lighter heart
Feel everyday heaviness soften into ease and warmth.
02
Playful, childlike energy
Remember how it feels to move freely.
03
A clearer, brighter mind
Shake off mental cobwebs and gain fresh clarity.
04
An intention for your day
Carry joy with you and return to it.
Who it’s for
Yes, if…
- Anyone who wants a bright, uplifting start to the morning
- People who feel weighed down and want to lighten up
- Those who enjoy colour and imagery in meditation
- Beginners looking for a short practice they can repeat daily
Not now, if…
- Those looking for a deep, sleepy wind-down
- People who prefer silent meditation (this is guided)
- Anyone who finds visualizing colours and scenes difficult to enjoy
About the teacher
Agapi Stassinopoulos
Bestselling Author & Spiritual Speaker
AGAPI STASSINOPOULOS is a best-selling author and speaker who inspires audiences around the world. In one of her first books, Unbinding the Heart: A Dose of Greek Wisdom, Generosity, and Unconditional Love_, she shares the wisdom from her life’s adventures and experiences. In her latests book, Wake Up to the Joy of You: 52_ Meditations and Practices for a Calmer, Happier Life,_ she takes readers on a journey and inspires them to let go of what doesn’t work and instead create the lives they really want. Agapi was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and then moved on to receive her master’s degree in psychology from the University of Santa Monica. Her two books on the Greek archetypes, Gods and Goddesses in Love and Conversations with the Goddesses_, were turned into PBS specials. In her newest book, SPEAKING WITH SPIRIT: 52 Prayers to Guide, Inspire, and Uplift You, Agapi presents a non-denominational guide to harnessing this power of prayer in your life and using it to find connection, peace, and gratitude. She is currently conducting workshops for Thrive Global, a company founded by her sister, Arianna Huffington, to help change the way we work and live. Agapi has spoken and conducted meditations at many organizations and companies including The Today Show, L’Oreal, Accenture, SAP, LinkedIn, Pandora, Google, Nike, Weight Watchers, PepsiCo, Starbucks, Global Citizen Company, Museum of Modern Art, ABC Carpet & Home, Women’s Health Magazine, Paul Mitchell, NYU, Gympass, and Hearst Communications amongst many others such as podcasts with Deepak Chopra, Lewis Howes, Maria Menounous, Sharon Salzberg, and more. She brings home the importance of self-care, practicing gratitude, generosity and self-love to enhance performance and productivity so we can experience happiness and fulfillment. She divides her time between New York and Los Angeles and was born and raised in Athens, Greece. FIND HER online at www.WakeUptotheJoyofYou.com
See all by Agapi StassinopoulosQuestions people ask
Still unsure? Ask your assistant anything about this session.
What is the point of breathing in all the different colours?
Each colour has its own quality. Orange refreshes and clears cobwebs around your head, yellow brings clarity and enthusiasm, green is placed around your eyes for restored wellbeing, blue brings calm and serenity, and lavender attunes you to wisdom and joy. Red is simply breathed out. Together they prepare you to feel energised and in tune with yourself.
What happens with the white light and the rainbow?
After the lavender, you picture white light moving from the soles of your feet up your spine and over the top of your head, circling around you. You then merge it with all the colours you have gathered, forming a huge rainbow that arcs around you. That rainbow is what brings the feeling of happiness that leads into the next scene.
Why a field of sunflowers?
It is an image of open, unhurried aliveness. You walk with bare feet on the ground and a breeze on your face, on a bright spring day when everything is blooming and fragrant. You play like a child, and you can bring friends, music you love, birdsong and sweet scents.
What does it mean that joy is who you are?
Agapi's idea is that joy is your essence, not something you have to earn or chase. The meditation asks you to see yourself as someone who finds joy in everything you do. When joy fades, you are not looking for it elsewhere but rekindling what is already there.
How do I carry this into the rest of my day?
The track suggests picturing yourself waking up and setting an intention for joy to be present all day. Then keep rekindling it by holding vivid in your imagination anything that awakens it for you. You can also recall the rainbow around you whenever you need a lift.
Why does the meditation end with sounds?
You finish by exhaling with a joyful sound, an open "ah", first with the rainbow around you and then once more with your arms open wide. It lets joy move through your body and voice instead of staying only in your imagination. It also marks the moment you are ready for your day.