Joy Idries

How to Move Through Sadness to Being Happy

Do you yearn to be happy? Did you know that many people remain sad or in a 'low' depression for much of their lives without being so aware of it. You may be the life and soul of the party, but because you want to make others happy and not necessarily b... Read >

How Biology Interacts With Beliefs

Have you ever been in the situation where you have set your goals in line with your desires and gone on to make your positive affirmations and yet... something inside remains, gnawing away at you, telling you it isn't possible or you're wasting your time ... Read >

Letting Go of Self-Limiting Beliefs

Sometimes we put a lot of effort into trying to be positive in response to the events and challenges of our daily lives, only to find ourselves yet again sinking back into the same old familiar negative habits and patterns of thinking and ways of behaving... Read >

Pain: Learning To Attract Its Opposite

It can be quite a challenge when pain turns up in your life. No-one wants to be in pain if they can help it. But what a great many of us don't realise is that how long it stays around and how we experience it can often be a result of the way we react to i... Read >

Where Does It Hurt?

As if being kept awake by pain wasn't enough, my sleep was abruptly cut short by a nasty nightmare I woke up screaming, frightened and alone... ... and was overcome by this wave of feeling that surged through my whole being as I turned over only to ... Read >

Back pain: It's message and Meaning

One of the interesting things I've discovered about back pain over the years is that our mood affects how we experience it. And our mood is very much affected by how we see ourselves,what stance we take and how we interpret what is happening to us. Ove... Read >

Back Pain: What Does It Mean?

I was a young woman abroad, travelling around and teaching to pay my way. It had begun as a very enjoyable adventure, exploring and interacting with the many different cultures, people and places I cam across as I savoured the sense of freedom and play th... Read >

When Pain is Gain

I didn't think I was getting older. Inside I felt about 25, even though my actual age is 55. I was just aware that I was getting more and more annoyed about the odd aches and pains that used to come only now and again and had then somehow gradually crept ... Read >

Think About It

Many people today will tell you that their lives are so busy they don't even have time to think! At one time that would have been an obvious overstatement: "Oh, come on, you're going too far, it's not that bad". But now it seems to be more and more a s... Read >

Viral Happiness

According to the Law of Attraction, we get what we think about most, in other words our thoughts stimulate action and attract certain results in our lives according to what we are thinking. If you think negatively this will bring more dark thoughts and... Read >

How Can I Laugh When I'm in Pain?

Mental pain, emotional pain, physical ... whatever kind of pain we find ourselves in we often get drawn into a dark world that colours our experience of it in negative and depressing ways. Our experience is often one of being victim to the pain, helpless ... Read >