Why not be happy? If you would prefer to be happy rather than unhappy, what do you allow to hold you back from being happy? Contrary to what you may have thought, it is not what happens to you from the outside that holds you back. Rather, your happiness and unhappiness depend upon a rating you place on what seems to happen outside you. You rate what occurs outside, and, according to your rating, you decide you are happy or unhappy or angry or content and so on.
Of course, the energy that seems to come at you plays a part. It ticks you off, or it pleases you. You, however, think that what occurs is a cause. Yet, you must see that you, the same you, feels good energy when someone brings you food. If someone took away your food while you were still hungry, your energy would deflate. Too often you see energy coming at you as the cause. Beloveds, We are talking about your energy, your reactive energy that comes at you.
So, yes, there are ideas, and there is energy. We could say that hot and cold are ideas, yet in the arctic areas, you would shiver, and in the tropics, you would perspire. No one would say that there is no difference between hot and cold. Hot and cold, sweltering and freezing may be concepts and, yes, in the world, these concepts have their physical counterparts in what is called reality.
Yet, there are concepts that everyone understands and not everyone really grasps. Death is considered a reality. So far as the body goes, death is definitely a reality. Yet the concept of death is blatantly untrue when it comes to the essence of you which never ever can possibly die. Souls do not die. Souls are not removed. Therefore, there is no death.
What you see may not be what is.
One person loves a movie that another walks out on. Is the movie good or not? It is as you perceive it.
By the same token, there are many who look at the world as devastating. Some may blame governments for their force, for instance, and the protestors use the very same energy they protest that the government displays. If you want to strengthen oppression, keep thinking about negative current events, for so you uphold them. Look closer to home, beloveds. Do not oppress yourself with your ideas.
And there are those who rampantly see the beauty of the world and, so, they expand the beauty. They may be artists or composers, or they may be what are called ordinary folk.
By and large, My children feel one way one time and another way another time. Most likely, you fall into this bunch.
Since these are all ideas, ideas can change, and you can change your ideas. Realistically, you can. You can be supportive of what you want to be supportive of. Often, beloveds, you proclaim what you exclaim. Pro or con, you are saying, “Look!” You turn your attention and the attention of others to where your attention is. “Look,” you say, “it’s Superman,” and everyone looks up at Superman.
And if you say, “Look at this catastrophe,” everyone looks at where you point. Give thought to what you point to. You are responsible for your thoughts, and you are responsible for the messages you send. There are heavy thoughts, and there are thoughts that are light and lighted as well. Choose your thoughts. You have some say over what you fill your mind with and what you share with others. The world you live in is as you see it.
The world may be difficult. However, you don’t have to imprison yourself in your concept of the world. Your mind is free whatever regulations there may be. You do not have to accept the consciousness of the world. You can rise higher. You can lift the world to the height you are at. You can also put down the world in your thoughts, and you can also pull down others’ thoughts. You have a choice, beloveds. What are you going to point out? What ideas and tone in the world do you promote? What upliftment do you want to give to the world hungry for upliftment?