The Joy of Well-being with Joy Belonga

Like many others who have been interviewed for this podcast, Joy Belonga describes herself as a lifelong seeker. Until she found the Three Principles as articulated by Sydney Banks.Now, Joy works with her clients to point them back to their innate well-being and natural state of peace, possibility, mental resilience and yes, Joy. Joy Belonga has a zest for life, learning and being of service to others. She has a loving, calming, healing nature about her along with a natural joy that is infectious. As many of her friends have commented, her name suits her! Joy has been a student of energy, 3 Principles, healing, and a life coach most of her life. At the young age of twelve she witnessed the mystical, transformational power of intention and energy which began her lifelong quest toward the mystical, healing and metaphysics. You can find Joy Belonga at JoyofWellBeing.org.You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below. Show Notes* Traveling alone with peace of mind knowing we can always rely on the wisdom within * Discovering how powerful our beliefs and thoughts are at age 12 * Breaking patterns in order to see life with fresh eyes * The power of looking within for our own answers * How our made up stories can be positively changed by rewilding ourselvesResources Mentioned in this Episode* Dicken Bettinger * The Eden Method * Angus and Rohini Ross’ Rewilding websiteTranscript of Interview with Joy BelongaAlexandra: Joy Belonga, welcome to Unbroken.Joy: Thank you so much. What an honor to be here.Alexandra: Oh, it’s lovely to speak to you. Tell us about a little bit about your background and how you found the principles.Joy: Sure. Background has basically been an educator within the extension system, which is a national system: Cooperative Extension. I worked for Michigan State University Extension for over 21 years, and it was a great job. And they really believed in personal development, so I had 18 days, if you can believe it, to have personal development. And some of those days were fall and spring conferences and things. And speaking at fall conference in Lansing and was introduced at a seminar that was being organized through the income health department, and health realization. That’s dating me a little bit, but I was really intrigued. That was a nine-month seminar presented by Dicken [Bettinger]. So I traveled once a month from upper peninsula of Michigan, where I was based for my job and had another lifetime there. The funny thing was, is that it took like, four hours to get down to Lansing to learn more about my thoughts for our car ride to think a lot about my thoughts. But it was the gift to learn from Dicken who learned directly from Syd Banks. It was just such a gift. I think it took me a while, I’d say at least maybe nine months to maybe get my first insight. And the first insight was, I didn’t have to believe everything I thought, which was huge, really huge. And so from then on, I made some changes in my life that I had been wanting to do, but didn’t have the courage or the gumption. Or I felt like I was stuck. I saw that really, from a new perspective, that our thoughts appear real. That’s the trick, isn’t it, they can appear so real.