Dear Ones,
Happiness comes from BEING happy, not from DOING happy. And happiness comes from a decision to be happy inside yourself.
So many people are seeking happiness but focusing all their attention on what’s wrong with their lives and with the world around them. Too many look at what is not right, according to their definition of ‘right,’ and decide that they are not happy with the situation. And others feel so overwhelmed with life that they cannot even imagine feeling happy.
We want you to stop searching for happiness and decide that you’ve already found it.
What can you find right now, in this moment, to feel happy about? If you can’t find anything when you look around at your life then picture something. Find something to smile about. Find one thing in this present moment that you can feel happy about.
Now, expand that feeling. Happiness isn’t about having everything you want in your life and it isn’t about everything being ‘just so’ as you think is right. So give up that aspect of your search. Expand the feeling of one thing that you can think of to be happy about. Extend that feeling around you. Put your arms out and spin around slowly sending ‘happy energy’ into the room you’re in. Just pretend you can fill it up with happy laughter.
And then laugh at yourself.
You know, human beings are pretty funny creatures. Some people have hair growing in one place where they don’t want it but can’t grow it the way they want it elsewhere. Some people have bodies they don’t like. Some folks have crooked smiles that they share too seldom because they’re embarrassed that they don’t look perfect. What is this all about?
People think of themselves as the physical being they see in the mirror. They then think that everyone else sees them only as that physical being. We would tell you that you are so much more than that physical body. Those who really see you as a person see the energy being that you are who is capable of great love and great compassion. Serious people see you as the Light that shines out of your eyes and the heart that you spread to those around you. People who think deeply remember the time you helped them or comforted them or gave them sage advice. YOU are the only one who sees yourself as the body that is reflected back in the mirror. Others see you as so much more. Are you willing to see yourself as others see you?
Happiness is like body image. You look at the surface of your life and decide that you don’t feel happy about it. But is that what your Life really is – what you see on the surface? Of course not! Your Life is the network of friends and family that you have created. Your Life holds all the mystery of the unfolding possibilities that lie in front of you. Your history is just that – history – that has contributed to the person you are in this present moment, but that history is not WHO you are NOW.
Focus on the deeper aspects of Life today. Give yourself some breathing room. Notice that other people don’t care if a hair is out of place and they won’t remember tomorrow what you’re wearing on your feet today, even if you agonized this morning over which pair of shoes you wanted to wear! Be yourself for you are good enough just as you are. You are a perfect person in this moment. And there is happiness available to you if you pause and allow yourself to experience it.
Be fully present in this moment and find something to be happy about, even if it’s just that you are wearing matching shoes!
And so it is.
________________________
Please feel free to re-post this article and share it with your readers. All I ask is that you include the following information when you do:
Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: Don’t worry! Be Happy!
July 20, 2010 — RosemaryIt 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.]
________________________
Please feel free to re-post this article and share it with your readers. All I ask is that you include the following information when you do: