LET'S BE HAPPY

I don't know who first said, “April is the cruelest month” but, I got an idea of it, when I got up this Morning and saw snow on the ground. Yesterday, It was beautiful, Sunny and fifty degrees. It was a bit windy but it was nice, in the shelter of our house, sitting on the deck. I soaked up some needed Spring Sunshine and got a few yard chores done, to boot.

The snow was coming down in huge flakes for awhile. When I went outside to do the chores, I noted that the flakes were combining to make three dimensional shapes that gracefully piled up. They were combining in large, puffy, crystalline, balls. Amazingly beautiful. It reminded me that beauty is always around us, and we don't have to indulge our disappointment, with weather or any other phenomena, and become miserable with negative thoughts. I can do that. How about you?

The longer I live, the more I realize, my happiness begins with my thoughts. Both last evening and this Morning, I caught myself indulging in negativity. I realized it was like 'pooping in my own nest'. Here, I have no reason to be anything but happy, and I am wallowing in some negativity, doing my best to be miserable. Wow! We don't need that, do we?

More and more I catch myself, but we do go through periods where the seduction of negativity is greater. I am not sure why. With the rising of group consciousness, it will get easier to stay out of the doldrums.

I know the answer is learning to be in the moment. I know we can live without any fear thoughts, whatsoever. I know it is only fear thoughts, naked and disguised, that keep us from the happiness that is our right.

Not that there cannot be organic conditions that directly impinge on happiness. Brain function is dependent on cellular condition, as well as thought. Jamie has been learning about how her sleep apnea has affected her mood. She has been learning a great deal. She has a profound capacity to learn. She will know enough to open her own clinic.

For me, and I think many of us, it is the thoughts that we choose to entertain that causes our unhappiness. Unfortunately, the fact that we are choosing these thoughts is often hidden from us. When we are sitting there in a miserable state, pooping in our nest, the last thing we want to accept is that we are doing it to ourselves. But once we catch ourselves doing it a couple times. It is undeniable. It is our thing. We can no longer blame it on the weather, our spouse, our job or anything else.

Being happy, is our most important job. Being happy, raises the consciousness of all around us. Happiness is our default state. The fact that we don't know it, that is sad.

We are on a journey to discover who we are. Our real selves are hidden behind a defensive mask, that blocks light both ways. We don't see how much we are loved and we cannot express how much we love. We will step out into the Sunlight. Some of us do now, fairly frequently, but it is the rare person who stays in the light. They are the Great Ones that have been, and are, our wonderful teachers.

Every time we laugh. Every time we smile. Ever time we bubble over with happiness we wear away our defensive disguise a little bit more. I am eager to break out of this crazy, confining strait jacket, of miserableness, and experience the Loving Energy that is the Universe Itself.

We do need healing/learning centers to help. All our institutional learning has distorted our thinking. Breaking out won't be as big a task as it seems now. We are learning rapidly.

I am suddenly feeling the love around me. Isn't life great! Isn't love great!

Love and Peace, Gregg