Blog #115 Time to Be Happy NOW!
What a beautiful birthday week I have had, I am so grateful for my family and friends making my celebration so very special. What a JOY! Thank you to all of you for your beautiful birthday wishes as I start my personal NEW YEAR! Yay!
Be Happy NOW! Sounds like it is a mantra, right or it could be.
Understanding most things in life involves a choice. Looking at how happy we are and how we choose to increase that happiness is also a choice and that is how we will manifest it in our life.
Since I was a teenager, every morning when I get up I started by saying out loud: Psalm 118:24:
“This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it!”
It helped me to bring into focus my day to express my love, joy and happiness in celebrating life in everything I do and I have been doing that ever since. It sets the energy for the day!
Even the Dali Lama said:
“Our business is to Be happy, Be compassionate and Be kind”
When times are challenging such as being ill or a loved one is in pain and hurting or having a major challenge at work, with your mate or a family member or even the negative news. All these things at times seem to kick us out of our happiness zone that we have chosen to create for ourselves.
An experience I had a few years ago: I had been really busy having fun teaching, counseling, officiating weddings and writing. During that time 16 of my family members and friends and pets made their transition to spirit all in one year. But then our ten year old golden retriever Beau passed unexpectedly, and three days after that the Shingle blisters showed up from the center of my chest around to the center of my back in a five inch band. It was very hard to think when you are in so much burning pain and I had it for about two months. It totally stopped me!!! One thing that helped with the pain was apple cider vinegar as a cool polis three times a day for twenty minutes. It stopped the burn!
But the biggest fastest healing took place when I chose to meditate a few hours every day and keep myself grounded and give myself permission to be and stay happy no matter what. I found some amusement about being stopped and I realized that the Shingles were allowing me to let go of the pain and sadness of all the loss I had that year. My family and friends kept me laughing and encouraged me through the healing process. What a blessing laughter is!
When stuff in life happens, we need to stop and take a look at the whole picture before stepping forward and into what’s going on and then becoming it or matching it and then losing our neutrality to it. Things may shake us up for a while, but then it is time to take a moment and ground and center ourselves. Becoming neutral, aware and in no effort, we can more easily find a solution. Tuning into our inner guidance about the situation and what is our next step to take. Or is it something that is not ours to fix or to even change!? It is important to look for solutions and not just be looking at the problem. What we focus on expands! Taking a little time in meditation brings awareness and also amusement if you let it.
Finding our way back to being neutral and happy and creating solutions is easy.
Begin in meditation; relax and breathe. Create a nice new grounding cord and connect it from your tail bone or 1st chakra –have it be a nice big hollow tree trunk going all the way down to the center of the earth. Just see the gravity turning on, then let go and ground off all the energy that is not yours in your space and see it like little pebbles going down the grounding cord and just neutralizing as it hits the center of the Earth. Breathe!
Then begin to really release all the energy of the day and week. Ground off and release any resistance, uncertainty, doubts, worries, fears, sadness and any competition with yourself or others and really release any judgments and anyone you have been healing or helping, release all their energy that may still be in your space. Breathe! Feel the freedom and space you have created. Give yourself permission to Be Happy and Joyous NOW! It is a choice!
Go ahead and visualize a scale out in front of you 0-100%; where is your Havingness for Happiness? Do you see 60% or 80%? Go ahead and push the number up to 100%! Own your incredible Havingness to create whatever you are choosing: health, love, joy and a trip to Paris, new awareness or having more time to just play. Create a big beautiful gold Sun with a big magnet in it and call back all your life force energy and see it getting nice and big and call back everything you need to fulfill your soul’s purpose and to be happy in this life. Then open it like an egg and just fill yourself up with the liquid gold through the top of your head through your crown filling up all your body and aura feel the power and healing in every cell of your being. Really honor and validate yourself for all the incredible work and growth you have done in this life. Own your new space!
I am so thankful for my incredible and funny husband David who makes me happy and makes me laugh every day! Thank you for all your awesome grammar checking for me on my blog! :)
Make the choice - Be Happy Right Now!!!
Photo of my sweet kitties Kalani & Kai napping on their favorite pillow together