It seems this message can’t be shared often enough. We are constantly being told that we create our own reality. But the truth of happiness needs to be reinforced often because we tend to forget that happiness is a choice. If we’re not feeling well or someone has made us mad or we didn’t get what we wanted, then we feel unhappy. But is that really a good choice? Maybe the initial reaction of unhappiness isn’t a choice, but staying with that feeling, sometimes even wallowing in it, doesn’t bring us the happiness we seek, nor does it help us to solve the original problem.
I learned about a foundation that has been created to give a ‘Wow!’ experience to patients who have been diagnosed with late stage cancer and their families. The idea was developed by someone who had cancer but had an excellent prognosis. Unfortunately, she had a reversal during treatment and became terminal. Her idea, though, has been carried on by her husband. The foundation creates a dream vacation, a vacation from cancer, for a few days for the family to make memories that live on with the survivors. For those few days there are no hospitals to deal with and they can live ‘normal’ lives. What a beautiful idea!
This foundation was created by a woman who could have chosen to feel sorry for herself or to wallow in her own condition. Instead, she decided that if she had only a short time left with her family, she was going to make every moment special. She lived with her disease but chose to smile and to live the best she could whatever moments she had left.
If someone with terminal cancer can find a way to make every day count in a positive way, can you? JUST FOR TODAY, can you decide to find the delight available to you, in small things and big things? Can you decide to feel happy whether Life hands you lemons or sugarplums?
You see, living a Conscious Life is always about the choices we make. In everything we do, we are making a choice. We can’t choose what happens externally nor can we control other people, but we can choose how we react to what happens. This message bears repeating because, as we grow, we start to see at a very deep level just what it is that we can control. And there is a lot in our life that we can control.
There are also circumstances that we cannot control. Does staying upset about those things change anything? Usually the answer is ‘no.’ We can’t get into the proactive mode of problem-solving until we move beyond the reactive mode of being upset.
Making a decision about how you feel is a big step toward living a Conscious Life. It is not that your feelings are not valid, for they are, but you have the ability to move beyond that initial feeling. You have the power to decide how you will continue to feel. As with Fear, where you are told to ‘feel the fear and do it anyway,’ if you are feeling unhappy, ask yourself why you have chosen to allow something to take away your remembrance of the light within. Accept the feeling but then look for the way ahead, letting your Iinner light illuminate the possibilities. Choose to feel happy about the belief that there are possibilities even if you can’t see them yet.
Just because you aren’t feeling happy at the moment doesn’t mean that you can’t feel happy soon!
[If you are interested in the foundation I mentioned, it is the Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation and they do great work.]
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Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: Lift your vibration and be a blessing!
July 27, 2010 — RosemarySometimes it’s confusing when we hear about ‘raising our vibration’ or ‘frequencies’ or other terms referring to measuring energy. People seem to throw these ideas around without definition or clarification.
Let’s look at the ‘frequency’ of something or someone.
Have you ever walked into a room and the occupants try to put on a happy face but you can sense that they have been fighting? Have you every felt someone’s anger even when their answer to your question about what’s wrong was, ‘Nothing’?
These situations are samples of times when you have picked up on the ‘vibes’ in the room, the vibrations created by the frequency of the emotion in the room. Just as a radio dial has numbers on it that indicate the frequency of a particular radio station, so your internal ‘radio’ has a set of frequency measurements that identify for you what the frequency is that you are sensing. The smile might tell you visually that everything is fine but your internal sensors are picking up on the energy that maybe things are not so fine.
Now magnify this example to everyone on the planet at a certain time. If everyone is feeling angry at once, the energy ramps up and it doesn’t feel very good, does it? If, however, everybody ramped up the energy of Love, can you imagine how good that would feel? If everyone in your vicinity were projecting the energy of Love at you, what would that feel like? Pretty darned good.
So now take this and extrapolate to Planet Earth and all her inhabitants. How would the Planet feel if everyone were thinking thoughts of Love and radiating that energy outward? Bringing it closer to home, how would your family feel if everyone were radiating the frequency of Love in your home? Now, since you cannot control everyone in your home, what if you were radiating Love and you were the only one doing so?
YOU could have a positive impact on your own home by radiating Love, even if your spouse or kids bug you or the dog is misbehaving or you are worried about paying the bills. Simply thinking thoughts of Love raises your vibration and everyone around you can feel it.
It is most important that you focus yourself on your role in raising the energy of Planet Earth in these days. Start within yourself and raise your own vibration with thoughts of Love. Radiate this outward and you will see a shift in the people around you. When they shift to a higher vibrational frequency the impact will start to be felt by the environment – plants and animals and the very air around you all. (Remember the room where the people had been fighting and how that air held memories of the lower vibrations?)
Everyone who is alive today is being called to lift the vibration of Mother Earth. Join in this effort by starting to raise your own vibration. Just for a moment NOW think of the energy of Love and how good it feels. A momentary thought like this will lift your own vibration and will radiate around you to be a blessing to all!
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