Mystic Messages

Dear Ones,

Happiness isn’t buying something or having something or achieving something.  Happiness isn’t having someone love you or having friends or not having debts.

Happiness is being a person who has decided to be happy.

Think about the moments you have had that have made you feel happy.  When someone proposed marriage.  When a child made you laugh.  When you received that gift you had been longing for.  When you graduated or were offered that job or got a raise.  You felt happy afterward but wasn’t it fleeting?  What changed about you that caused that happiness to linger within you?

Too often people are seeking happiness outside themselves.  They live the lie that ‘if only _____ (fill in the blank), then I will be happy.’  This exercise gives away your power to external events and does not bring true happiness nor does it make even the feeling of being happy last very long.  Happiness is not a response to an external event, although you might feel briefly happy when things go your way.

Think about how it would feel to wake up each morning believing that you will be happy JUST FOR TODAY.  You perform your morning ritual and notice that you feel like smiling.  Little irritations remain little – they don’t disrupt your entire day because you choose not to let them do so.  Someone does something that you don’t like but you get over it quickly.  The dog chews the newspaper but you decide to get your news online.  Spilt milk gets cleaned up with no consequences.  Can you see where your response to those irritants makes a difference in how you feel?  You CHOOSE your response, although the knee-jerk reaction might lead in a different path.  You can choose happiness.

Now you might be saying that those are all minor irritants. What about the big things?  But, what big problems are solved by choosing to feel unhappy?  If you have a financial problem, will feeling unhappy solve that problem?  If you are experiencing a relationship problem or a lack of a relationship, will feeling unhappy about that bring resolution?  If you are suffering a health problem, will feeling unhappy reverse the condition?  Think about how choosing to stay with the unhappy feelings does not bring you the resources you need to do problem-solving.

What if, rather than staying stuck in your feelings of unhappiness, you chose to take action? What if you started by deciding that you were not going to let problems take away the light within you?  The truth is that nothing external can take away the light from within you – only you can make a decision to put a barrel over that light and keep it from shining out from you.  Blocking the light doesn’t extinguish it so your inner light continues to shine, but you and others can’t see it.  So how about making a decision today to remove the barrel and find the light within?  Make a decision that the cup will be half full JUST FOR TODAY.  Decide that, JUST FOR TODAY, you will see everything as having a solution if you just stay open to the possibility that the problem can be solved somehow.

The energetic fact is that when YOU decide to stay open to possibilities then possibilities open up before you.  It is when you choose to be unhappy, to turn down that interior light bulb, that the dimness prevents you from seeing the possibilities that are just beyond your reach, waiting for you to reach out to them.  Remove the barrel and let your own light shine the way ahead for you.  You might be surprised by how good it feels to choose to feel happy, even if it is JUST FOR TODAY!

And so it is.