Life is Good!

When is the last time you remember feeling real HAPPINESS (time free of stress and anxiety) in your life? Was it when you watched one of your kids learn to ride a bike? Was it when you learned to ride a bike? Your wedding or divorce day, LOL? Maybe it was the last time you used drugs? Perhaps it has been so long that you can no longer remember what it feels like, and HAPPINESS is something for others but not for you. Maybe your life feels filled with stress, anxiety, worry and uncertainty. Let’s change that!

Unfortunately, for many of us, there is a tendency to forget how joyous and wonderful life is. We are MIRACLES! Every one of us. And yet, we so often treat ourselves and our loved ones as afterthoughts. I want to point you towards rekindling your connection to all that is miraculous and wonderful about your life.

Life is about remembering and rediscovering the JOY, LOVE and EASE of one’s experience. It is not about trying to find relief from stress, anxiety and the negative thinking that we innocently all too often believe. We are part of life with a brain; why would we use it to cause our suffering? No other expressions of life do. Is it even possible for life, creation itself, to drive itself to suffer? I think not, but that is a different conversation.

We tend to get wrapped up exploring the causes of our issues, trying to understand and rationalize our problems rather than simply moving on from them. We tend not to realize that this innocent act or for some compulsion to make sense of or avoid a ‘negative’ experience focuses our attention on that which we do not want. We try desperately to keep our stress, anxieties and negativity at arm’s length with tricks and techniques while missing the simple fact that they are all made of thought. Our thoughts, no less.

For giggles, take a second and consider whether your partner, spouse, dog, or neighbour ever does something that bothers you one day but not the next. Then, ask yourself why that might be.

Accepting responsibility for one’s role in creating one’s misery is eye-opening and, to be honest, can be challenging. (And no, we do not create positivity as it is already there in our very expression into life.) We are innocently conditioned to believe that life happens to us and not through us and that we are separate from it. On top of that, we are sometimes on the receiving end of the short straw. It is funny how when we are in good spirits, even a short straw often looks long enough, but when we are in a bad mood, the longest straw sometimes isn’t enough.

When you can be wholly responsible, no longer a victim to life, you see that life is lived from your perspective outward and not imposed. From here, you will be on your way to realizing that happiness is but a thought away, and your only power is to create distance from that fact. The beauty is we all have the map, know which direction to look and even though the first step often looks like a doozy, the ability to take it.