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Happiness is NOT being in a perpetual state of Joy...or IS it?
Have you noticed a lot of conversations about happiness, lately? There seems to be a general Funk in progress. Every where I go--on the net or out and about--people are talking about how un-happy they are and about how sick they are of being that way. There is a real search on to "find" happiness, once and for all--a never-ending state of pure bliss that has only one emotion, pure joy. Among many happiness-seekers, there is guilt associated with having or, God forbid, expressing any kind of negative feelings--as if those feelings represent some kind of failure on a quest for spiritual perfection.
Now, there are those who would argue with me, but I say that is pure POPPYCOCK! Here is why...
WE ARE HUMAN--and we came here to BE human. We came here to HAVE all the experiences that only this earth-bound physical existence can offer us. We came here to be sad and glad, fearful and delighted, angry and elated, depressed, agitated, grief-stricken, heart-broken, judgemental, greedy, cowardly, courageous, intrepid, cynical, loving and loved, etc, etc, etc....
We WANTED to feel these intense polarities of emotion, and there is nothing wrong with having them. Now, am I saying we should all go out of our way to immerse ourselves in negativity? Absolutely not. What I AM saying, is that it is okay to ALLOW the full spectrum of our feelings as they occur. Negative emotions contain important messages for us, IF we are aware enough to look for them. Those of us who short-circuit these feelings in the belief that they are "bad" do themselves a disservice. We need to allow and explore these emotions long enough to find the messages they contain--messages that are vital to our progress on the path we have chosen to walk.
As for being in a perpetual state of Joy, I believe that IS true happiness--but not in the way you might think. The key concept for my way of approaching this is to remember that we CAN'T experience this wonderful range of emotions from a state of pure spirit. Every feeling we have fulfills a part of our reason for being here. There is joy in that for me--a kind of revelling in the contrasts, like a pig in a mud puddle.
There is joy for me in being able to roll around in that "mud". Happiness is recognizing Joy as the glorious undercurrent that is always there, reminding me that I came here in Joy and I will leave here in Joy, and all the polarities are part of LIVING in Joy.
...and Joy begets Joy. While I was writing this, an opportunity I have been wanting for quite awhile came to me--I am just down on my backside rolling in that mud!!! LOL!
Tags: emotions, feelings, happiness, joy, negative, polarity
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Permalink Reply by Misa Hopkins on -
In healing myself and supporting others, it has been my experience that if we don't honor the range of feelings we are having, we dishonor the experience of the Divine with in us. Feelings, once honored and held in compassion, even the less desirable feelings, naturally change to higher vibration feelings like happiness and joy once they are witnessed.
Like water flowing from the mountains to the ocean, our emotions change. Is slow moving water less significant than fast moving water. All motions of water can be experienced as an expression of the Divine, and so it is with emotions. Within the essence of the emotions, the Divine is there to be witnessed and doing so, we awaken.
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Permalink Reply by Stefan James on -
Did we come here to be human? Or did we come here to learn how to be human? Perhaps, because of our miserable state we fell from heaven and became human??
Some say we came here to learn. Some say we are children and this is the learning stage of our development. So, maybe we are supposed to learn how to be happy, and overcome our negative emotions and energies so that when we come to power, we do not abuse others with it..... or something like that.
Perhaps, when we learn how to be human, we just get happy. Of course, what does it mean to be human? Odd thing, to act human doesn't include all the monstrous things humans do.
Consider all the gods humans have written about: hoorible, terrible, torturous, insensitive, high and mighty monsters; even when they are connected to the better attributes of human nature, they remain descriptions of ultimate ego worship. If we were gods before we came here to be human, perhaps it is a lesson in how to be humane, and when we learn that, we get happy.
JUst another perspective, no poo-poo.
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Permalink Reply by G Alexander McDonell on -
I find there is a way of staying centred so that the emotions come and go, but deep inside I am always at peace. It is not the happy happy state that people seem to be looking for, but there is a deep joy in it nonetheless.
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