Expansion Neighborhood – Where CJ Thrives What CJ experiences: A vibrant marketplace filled with music, creativity, and connection. Why CJ visits: CJ feels confident, inspired, and in flow with others here. What CJ values: This is where CJ’s fullest potential emerges – leadership, creativity, and connection shine. CJ’s Chair of JOY here: A mountain top with wide views, energy expanding outward.

CJ’s Favorite Part: The Bridges

CJ loves spending time on the three bridges connecting these neighborhoods. CJ walks slowly on these bridges, takes time to listen, and feels what each crossing means:

The Accountability Bridge – CJ crosses this when ready to take ownership and move from feeling stuck to becoming aware.

The Acceptance Bridge – Where CJ practices accepting what is, allowing movement from wrestling with emotions to reflecting on them clearly.

The Trust Bridge – Where CJ practices trusting the process, crossing from reflection into full expansion and flow.

CJ’s Discovery

CJ discovered something life-changing: the four emotional stages of presence operate like neighborhoods CJ visits throughout each day. CJ moves between all four regularly, sometimes within minutes of each other. None are bad – each serves a purpose. Some are quiet, some restless, some peaceful, some alive with energy. CJ learned the key is noticing which neighborhood CJ is visiting and understanding the bridges that connect them.

Sometimes CJ needs to do several Chair of JOY practices on a bridge before crossing completely. CJ sits down, breathes, thinks, and feels what’s possible on the other side of the bridge and also may make a choice that staying put is also perfectly fine.

CJ’s Bridge Practice: From Overwhelm to Reflection

Imagine CJ feeling overwhelmed in the busy Awareness Neighborhood – honking traffic, bright lights, constant motion. CJ walks to the Acceptance Bridge and sits down right in the middle.

CJ breathes in slowly, then out, letting the busy neighborhood noise fade into background. CJ thinks about what waits on the other side: the Reflection Neighborhood with its open skies, park benches, and room to breathe clearly.

As CJ continues breathing, CJ feels something shift in the body – a loosening in the chest, a softening in the shoulders. CJ visualizes walking into that park space, sitting on the bench, having perspective on all that busyness instead of being caught inside it.

CJ imagines the potential: instead of wrestling with the overwhelm, simply observing it from the park bench. Seeing solutions instead of just problems. Feeling hope instead of just stress.

After several minutes of this Chair of JOY practice – sitting, breathing, thinking about the possibility, feeling the body’s capacity to move there – CJ stands up and walks across the bridge. The Reflection Neighborhood welcomes CJ with its calmer energy and clearer perspective.

CJ’s Invitation

CJ has learned that bridge time is sacred time. The crossing itself builds stronger navigation skills. Each Chair of JOY practice on a bridge strengthens CJ’s ability to move consciously between the four emotional stages of presence, using imagination and body awareness to feel into new possibilities before stepping into them.

Ready to join CJ on the bridges? The Chair of JOY is ready for you anytime: Simply sit, breathe, think about where you want to go, and feel that potential alive in your body.