Hi dear ones….
A beautiful friend shared with me that she was going to choose to live in a “happy reality” vs. one that wasn’t so happy that she was currently experiencing. She shared, “I know happiness is out there for all of us if we choose it.” The statement sparked the question for today’s meditation. How do we “get happy?” I asked and this is what I received. I hope you find it helpful. Much love…
Dear one, happiness is an attitude, indeed. Happiness is a choice. One can be surrounded by horrific elements and still manage to find happiness. So how is this achieved? How does this occur? Dear one, it starts with a belief. It starts with knowingness that this is indeed your divine right.
Dear one, when you focus on the moment, much beauty can occur there. In other words, if you are 10 steps forward or 10 steps back, more than likely you are fixating about what has occurred to cause you strife or what will occur to cause you pain. It is worry and upset, is it not?
But if one is focused on the here and now, one is focused on the beauty of the moment – a sunrise, a flower’s growth, a child’s smile, ah, in every moment there is something to grasp on to. But again, it is determined within.
Dear one, your friend is correct in that it is a choice. In this moment you can choose to be happy, you can choose to be angry, you can choose to be rude, you can choose to be nice. It is about desire.
Sometimes what is required to achieve happiness, though, can feel like sadness and this is well and good. In other words, dear one, at times it is necessary to place your focus on what is causing discontent. Yes, one can choose to be happy and ignore what is occurring, but too it is helpful and necessary to get at the greater truth.
If there is discontent, it may require an uncomfortableness to look at the root cause, the root notion of that sadness, that anger, that discontent. In the end, of course, it is about freewill – will you choose to be happy despite… But again, dear one, it requires honesty. It requires searching – not for a happiness to grab on to but for relief in your heart that will allow the happiness to surface.
Dear one, man is a complex creature but in many ways quite simple. Joy is your never-ending value. It is your sole desire for being. To create joy; to surround yourself in love. To be a beacon of love. Man complicates this in many ways but the result is the same. The capacity for love, for joy, for beauty – all are within, waiting to be recognized. Waiting to be joyously honored.
Dear one, at this time much is occurring that is an indication of imbalance. It is necessary for man to start within to clean his own ship, so to speak. In other words, by starting with self, by tending to your own vessel, your own joy, your own happiness, you are contributing to the greater good; the greater whole. You are helping to manifest a world of peace and harmony. But it cannot occur with a focus on what is not right. It cannot occur if one is unwilling to release pain, tend to anger, to look at the dark spots and to ask, “how can I heal?”
Dear one, this is a day when much can occur in terms of healing. It is a day when much is possible. It begins with inner reflection. It begins with inner hope. It begins with truth.
The desire to bring happiness within is noble indeed because it is a recognition that choice is at the root of such an outcome. Choice is at the root of this destination. But as you know, it doesn’t require searching about, looking to the others for true joy, true happiness.
It requires waking up to the joy within; moving, if you will, the layers that surround it, the elements that have caused pain, have caused ridicule, have caused one to believe that happiness is but a dream. It is all there, asking to be recognized. Ah, it is indeed a simple act, is it not?
Dear one, blessed one, rejoice in this day, this moment; it is joy unexpressed. Allow it to be (expressed).
Amen and amen.
