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WOULD YOU CONSIDER JOY MONGERING? - By Cordelia Gaffar We are bombarded with messages of “fear mongering” everyday. For example, in the home kids are taught to be afraid of getting in trouble, in school children are afraid of consequences, in business adults are afraid to speak their mind for fear of backlash, and globally social media is full of fear mongering click bait. I believe that “joy mongering” can be a choice not just an emotion. It is a state of being. In that beingness, we feel peace, love and generosity towards others. In every moment we have a choice, we can choose to believe the fear messages or we can create a new belief. What if we took a stand for “joy mongering”? Imagine what could happen if we raised our children this way, we taught this in schools, and we created a “joy mongering” culture in business. Imagine a world where “joy mongering” was our GLOBAL CULTURE. Transmuting difficult emotions into what I call Joy Mongering is my life long practice. In July of 2001 I became Muslim. Which was two months before the historical event of “9/11” when the twin towers were attacked in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC allegedly by Muslim men. As a Senior Accountant and mother, in that
headcovering and long dress covering down
moment my life changed forever.
to my ankles. As the elevator doors opened, a woman said, “I don’t want to get in the elevator
I can remember being at the elevator at work,
with her, she has one of those blankets on her
dressed as Muslim woman wearing traditional
head”. I could feel the fear and confusion in her.
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