Gathering Joy is a hands-on instruction book
with numerous exercises that will empower
you to make positive changes in your life,
beginning with the very first chapter. With a
methodical approach that anyone can use,
the author guides you gently through the
steps to recognizing and taking advantage of
your daily opportunities to increase the joy
you have in your life.

“Great and abundant joy is all around us. If
we’re not consistently experiencing that joy,
it’s because we are actually doing something
to keep it out”

Not just a “don’t worry, be happy” book,
Gathering Joy offers permanent solutions to
lifelong “Joy Blockades” that may have kept
you from experiencing the fullness of joy that
is available to you.
“I tell you, deep inside
you is a fountain of
bliss, a fountain of
joy. Deep inside your
center core is truth,
light, love, there is no
guilt there, there is no
fear there.
Psychologists have
never looked deep
enough.”

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar



"Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of
living is joy enough."

~ Emily Dickinson



“Joy seems to me a
step beyond
happiness, which is a
sort of atmosphere
you can live in
sometimes when
you're lucky. Joy is a
light that fills you with
hope and faith and
love."

~ Adela Rogers
 St. Johns



“Cultivate more joy by
arranging your life so
that more joy will be
likely.”

~ George Witkin
Contact the author through www.johncontreras.net