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A
Bold Voyage into Inner Space
by
Peggy Joyce, The Joy Coach™, Creator of the JoyGram
Introductory
Issue
Welcome
to the first issue of The RebelGram, my new ezine that is replacing
the JoyGram.
What's
It About?
The
JoyGram has been retired although the past issues will be archived
on this website. The RebelGram is the result of wanting to more
ruthlessly examine and discuss prevalent belief systems and worldviews.
Think of me as a kind of foreign correspondent and travel writer.
The RebelGram is my report from inner space.
When
I knew I wanted to create a new ezine, I started thinking about
possible titles. For a number of years I've thought of myself as
an internal activist and I liked titles like "The Anarchist Letters"
or "The Anarchist Journal". I almost scared myself by thinking that
a title like "The Anarchist Letters" might invite some undesirable
scrutiny from suspicious government types. I love being a rebel
and I know very well that I am talking about being a liberal in
a conservative state or being married more than once, not plotting
against the government. I imagined trying to explain to a humorless
fed that "anarchist" as I was using it did NOT mean anarchist per
se.
So
initially I chose what I thought was a witty way to approach the
subject of radical internal examination and change: I crossed anagram
with anarchist.
An
anagram is a word whose letters have been rearranged (changed) to
spell a different word. Like "dare" rearranged can be "read" or
"dear". Classically, an anarchist is a radical revolutionary whose
goal is to rearrange or abolish the government or the social structure.
Thus combined, I created the word "AnaRgram". It was to be a journal
about personal change that feels radical and revolutionary. Then
just days from sending it out, I decided to make the title simpler
and more straightforward. Thus, what you're reading now: The RebelGram.
It will still be about radical and revolutionary change--inner change.
And I think the title is easier to grasp. It will be a bolder iteration
of The JoyGram.
What
Happened to JOY?
Why
have I leapt from JoyGram to RebelGram? I was finding it harder
and harder to promote the JOY. I knew I was supposed to be exploring
something else. Even when I hit on this idea and began playing with
titles, I wasn't yet sure what the something else was.
JOY
is so damned slippery. Is this your experience too? Even when you
have great tubs full of it, tomorrow it may be down the drain with
your health, your finances, your romance, your whatever-it-is when
it's external. JOY is completely dependent upon one's state of mind.
And my state of mind is constantly being buffeted by what I seem
to encounter in the world and my beliefs and judgments about those
encounters, my hot buttons and other internal junk, etc.
In
the middle of doing my final edit of this new ezine, I got a note
from my coaching partner, Rose Milbeck. She said "One minute everything
is going along just fine and the next it's in the toilet... I'm
feeling schizophrenic, caught between two worlds, riding a roller
coaster that has its own agenda... the highs are nice and the lows
are a pain in the ass." Thus speaketh Rose. I rest my case.
I
have the gift of being able to get myself out of the deepest pits.
I have the gift of being able to help others get out of them as
well. What I want is to be able to quit falling in pits to start
with. I want to be able to ride the roller coaster without getting
sick.
There
is a great demand out there for getting more JOY. Everyone wants
more and I think nearly everyone experiences what I do. What we
really want is to be able to STAY joyful. That's the challenge in
this insane world and something we'll be exploring in Inner Space.
So What's Next?
What's next is for the next issue of The RebelGram. I hope that
I've spoken a common truth and that you'll let me know if you want
to sign up for this bold journey in pursuit of a life that makes
sense and joy that is maintainable. As a teaser, I'm going to tell
you what the next issue is about.
The
next issue will make a case for the premise that God did NOT create
this world and that is why it is insane and JOY is so temporary.
And it is not about evolution. That's all I'm going to say.
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Thank
you for letting me connect with you today!
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