How Much Joy and Happiness Can You Hold?

As humans we have a harder time staying in joy and happiness than we do in pain and struggle.

Joy is a very high, clear vibration in which life flows effortlessly and gracefully. Pain is a slow, low vibration that attracts disharmony and upset into our life. When we are in pain and are struggling, we are cut off from our natural connection to the heavens. This energy source that sustains all life and from which all creation comes is meant to flow to us freely, easily and abundantly. It is our God-given natural state to be in the high vibration of joy, yet, for must humans it is not the familiar state.

Let me explain what I mean by natural and familiar. “Natural” means what we have been created to experience effortlessly and spontaneously as our genuine selves. God created us to experience joy as our natural state. Enthusiasm is natural. Laughing a lot is natural. Feeling strong and secure is natural.  It is natural to feel a zest for life although most people over eight years old have not felt such zest for a long, long time.

“Familiar” means what has become commonplace and habitual because of how frequently we have experienced it in our lives. Pain and struggle have become the familiar life experience for most people. It is unfamiliar to be happy and joyful all the time: intentionally choosing to create more and more of what brings increased joy to others and to ourselves.

Staying in a high vibration of joy and happiness and creating a wonderful life is the opportunity given to every one of us and one of the primary purposes of our time on earth. To achieve and maintain this high vibratory state, we must become aware of the patterns we continually recreate that keep us experiencing pain and struggle. As well as becoming aware of these patterns, we need to understand why we create them. For most of us there is a belief that these patterns add some value to our lives.

Some of the most common beliefs that my clients have identified include:

1.  I believe that my spiritual exaltation and advancement is directly connected to how much hardship I overcome in this life.

2.  I believe that if life were easy and pain-free, I might get bored or have nothing with which to challenge myself.

3.  I believe it keeps me humble to suffer.

4.  I believe that living in a constant state of joy and happiness is a façade and means I am not willing to deal with the realities of life.

5.  I am human and humans like drama.

Examine your own beliefs. If you were told you could have a life completely free of pain and hardship, would you believe it was possible? What do you believe the struggles and hardships of your life offer you? Do you believe you could create those same benefits and claim those same blessings in a constant state of joy and happiness and prosperity? If you lived in a constant state of joy and happiness and prosperity, could you stay in a place of compassion and humility? Do you need adversity to keep you humble and submissive to God? As long as pain and struggle have hidden values to you, you will need them in your life.

You must choose to experience joy and happiness.  The more happiness you generate, the more life presents you with experiences to feel happy about.  If you are feeling blue or downright depressed, you must make a conscious decision to “get happy.”

The following tips can help you.  If you are seriously depressed, get some professional help.  There are many new, cutting-edge energy therapies that clear away negative emotions and negative thinking.  Find a professional who is more interested in giving you tools and guidance in generating more happiness, than in trying to figure out why you feel the way you do.  It is not necessary to find out why we feel sad or depressed to clear these negative emotions.  The bottom line is, if we give a lot of attention to what we don’t want, we create more of it. 

Here are a few suggestions to help you create happiness so it starts to become your familiar state:

1.     Choose to be happy rather than right.

2.     Repeat aloud: "it doesn't matter.”

3.     For every kind deed offered to you, do a kind deed for someone else.

4.     Write thank-you notes often.  The energy of gratitude feeds happiness.

5.     Smile—even if you don't feel like it.  You eventually will.

6.     When you think a complimentary thought about someone—tell them.

7.     Refrain from judgments—think something positive instead.

8.     Whistle.

9.     Skip around your house.

10.   Turn on your favorite upbeat song and sing along.

11.   Ask your angels to flow to you the energy of happiness.

12.   Hug someone—tightly.

13.   Ask your children to tuck you in bed and read you a story for a change.

14.   Stay in the now.  Let the future be just that —the future.

15.   Hold a newborn baby and welcome them into the world.

16.   Give some service to someone who is more needy than you.

17.   Exercise regularly.

18.   Pray and meditate.

19.   Love yourself and make the choice to BE HAPPY!

20. All day long repeat this mantra:  “I am really happy and it is familiar.”

There will always be the contrast of pain and hardship available to us. The old belief has been, “I am learning and growing through adversity.” The new belief can be, “I am learning and growing through joy and happiness.” The question to ask yourself now is, "How much joy and happiness can you hold, and how long can you hold it?”

Carol Tuttle is an energy psychologist, best-selling author, and very successful speaker.  She has appeared on hundreds of radio shows and many television appearances.  She and her husband, Jon, reside in Draper, UT and utilize these energy clearing techniques in their everyday lives with their 5 children.  Carol’s book, Remembering Wholeness and her other products are available on her website www.caroltuttle.com.  In addition she has launched The Carol Tuttle Healing Center, an interactive website utilizing these techniques for clearing literally hundreds of issues.  You can visit that site at www.youremotionalhealing.com