We have talked about happiness many times before.  We have stressed how happiness is a choice.  Everyone can find happiness, no matter their current situation, if they so choose.  We understand that finding happiness at all times can be challenging, however.  We also understand that there are times when being happy, may not be what you want.  There are times, when maybe you need to work through some of the pain that you have in your life.

However, there are many other times, where happiness is available to you, but for whatever reason you choose to suffer, be bitter, or angry instead.  There are times in this upcoming day when you may be at work, or at home and have the opportunity for happiness, but refuse it.  Why do you suppose that is?

We will venture a theory that the ego is at play.  The ego loves to feel misery, and is almost allergic to happiness.  When you are miserable the ego can convince you that it is all someone else’s fault, or that you were mistreated, or that you deserve better, etc.   However, the ego does not want you to feel better, for then the ego has less of a role in your life.

Stand up tall, and take back your life.  Let go of the ego, and you will see that it does not provide any joy to you.  It only helps contribute to your misery.  Look around, and see the beauty of the world.  Look deeply into the person the ego has convinced you of somehow “wronging” you.  Find the good in that person.  See their own ego at play, and find an understanding of where they are coming from.  Deep down, you know at a spiritual level that they most likely meant no harm. Let go, of that need to be justified in your feelings of anger or bitterness.  For, you are never justified in your anger.  Anger is an emotion that takes you away from happiness and joy.

If you seek happiness and joy, you must realize that anger and bitterness will prevent that happiness from entering your life.  Happiness is however, within you, and is “covered up” by anger and bitterness.  When you let go of those negative emotions, and let them lift up out of your life, like the smoke from a fire, you will see the happiness within you.  You will realize that happiness in fact, comes from within, and not from outside of you.  You will realize that you always have happiness, however, you just may not always see it.

Let the happiness within you join your life, and the two of you will have a beautiful world for which you live.  Let go of the negative, and let yourself just “be happy.”  You can flip a switch to happiness, if you so choose – it is that easy.  Make the conscious decision today, to just “be happy.”  No matter what someone says or does, just “be happy.”  Try it just for a day, and see if this day somehow was just a little better than days in the past.

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When you release the anger and bitterness, you reveal the happiness that you always have within you.  Let go of the negative, and choose happiness.  When you allow yourself to “be happy” you begin to see the beauty that has always surrounded you.

Written Mon May 5, 2014 8:00 – 8:11 AM MT