Are You Happy?

[thepainterdoug]

Casey asked/

Can I ask? How do you wake in the morning? Can you describe the process? ....(from the moment you first begin waking). How long would you say the process of transitioning back into the wake state lasts? There truly is so much that is possible in the threshold of this transition. How important would you say this shift in consciousness is to you? Do you give it much attention? ( how much? ).


Casey/ its not a strict ritual but, I wake and orient myself from dream state in which I am often unsure what is waking reality. i would say this could be 10 minutes maybe longer
This state is very important to me and I am fascinated by it . i also wish I could lucid dream but have not been able to

On the days I play hockey I have to just get up and go

[Casey Claar]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
Casey asked/

Can I ask? How do you wake in the morning? Can you describe the process? ....(from the moment you first begin waking). How long would you say the process of transitioning back into the wake state lasts? There truly is so much that is possible in the threshold of this transition. How important would you say this shift in consciousness is to you? Do you give it much attention? ( how much? ).


Casey/ its not a strict ritual but, I wake and orient myself from dream state in which I am often unsure what is waking reality. i would say this could be 10 minutes maybe longer
This state is very important to me and I am fascinated by it . i also wish I could lucid dream but have not been able to

On the days I play hockey I have to just get up and go

Doug, nice.. everything we may feel missing as a 3D incarnate can be found/reconnected with in this state. It can be allowed into our conscious state and 3D embodiment, we can live and breathe and walk as all this in our reality all the days of our lives. It does take focus, and discipline, but it is well worth more than every moment given to the focus. Our wholeness, which is our happiness is present in every moment, but will we synch with it? will we let nothing be more important? ( or will the choice be to say we are just too busy ). It takes trust — trust that our wholeness will not interfere with our life, that it *will* move us rightly. That very first movement to get up out of the bed each morning is the most important step of our whole day. The whole rest of the day rides on it. Feeling for the prompt, synching with that which is behind it, bringing that along with us into each new day quite literally changes everything. Life is more akin to what life is supposed to be. It is nice to ride, rather than labor and strain - and most of all, to not ever be alone, to experience life as an accompaniment.

[mokosh]

Reading this thread with my morning coffee makes me happy

[thepainterdoug]

Casey so very well said and noted. " its nice to ride rather than labor and strain" a good takeaway!!

thanks all, and mokosh, Im pleased to hear that.

[grapevine]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
Are you Happy?      Are you trying to be Happy?

 I'm not asking if you are content or ok, appreciative,  grateful,  fortunate, blessed, satisfied, safe lucky and so on.

I like most of us experience many of these descriptors at various times in life.
 But in truth I realize I am rarely, if ever, happy.

 I try to be happy.  And all those other descriptors can contribute to happiness, but do not make me happy.  is it a silly or pointless question?

Does being happy matter?   Is it just some blissful bonus, like a momentary balmy breeze on an otherwise hot and muggy day ?

Thoughts on this?
let me know if you are happy?

I read your OP and all the comments in the thread with interest, which mostly echo my own ideas - but I found my thoughts returning to your OP and so monitored my own feelings for a day or two.  Details aside, I'm happy when rising (new dawn, new day and all that) and remain so as long as I stay within my bubble, that early morning routine, ie rise and shine, no aches and pains, feed the cats, prepare packed lunches, etc.  

Have to say that bubble cracks when looking into the forum news, the war threads in particular and the current Epstein crap.  It's easy to stay happy for as long as we don't allow the OUTside INside but as you point out, being creative invites the pain along with the pleasure, it's the nature of the beast.  But then take your ice hockey hobby.  Bet you're ecstatic when you score, your side wins, all the while taking hard knocks from the other side; might even go home with a dodgy ankle, but the overall feeling is one of happiness.  And how you play the game is how we manoeuvre our lives to retain that pleasure/pain balance.   Having said that, Mike Tyson's quote, "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face" is a grand leveller and also another which has been attributed to more than one person, "Happiness is an act of defiance".

Be defiant Doug.

[rick]

To answer the OP's thread topic, NO.

This place is a paradise for psychopaths, the ignorant and those with blinders on. Stockholm syndrome comes to mind. It's severely off balance presently. It should be 50% positive and 50% negative. It's more like 20% good and 80% negative as it sits currently. It may have been better in the past, but I suspect it's always been a beautiful ****hole.

When I leave I aint comin back.

[thepainterdoug]

Rick, I Understand and truly agree. I cannot imagine a greatest moment of bliss, becoming famous, winning 10 billion, having the greatest situation or moment, that would super seed or overcome or justify, the loss of a child .

The wins are temporary, fleeting and become adjusted to and soon taken for granted and cannot be equalized to the loss of a child, a love one and so on.

those losses are scaring forever.

its a brutal realm we are in, but I feel we are put thru it for a reason. one not able to be seen in the realm we are in

[rick]

Your prob right. Whatever it is, it's not a balanced scenario down here. Butter side down 8 out of 10 times. I remember Mythbusters tried testing that and I think they said it was close to even odds. The problem is of course that's what the system would show you. In practice and off camera its 20-80.

This place takes you to the brink, then brings you back in a constant cycle. It will usually never torture one enough to put barrel in mouth but just enough that's bearable. The cycle over and over.

Notice how the PTB frowns on suicide. That says something, don't it. And "ITS A SCHOOL" sentiment is complete nonsense.

[rick]

Or should I say its 66.666666% negative and 33.333333 good. lol.

[thepainterdoug]

rick

NDE,s have best guided me. I listened to a person who crossed over and asked why we are here, why do we do this. Take it for what its worth , but the being, a powerful being of light said. that we come here to create stories. Life stories good bad the ugly, that is what we call them, but somehow the being told the person, thats s how the universe grows. We expand and grow the universe by way of this physical realm . And since nothing is permanent , it ends and we get to re do a story. It made me think of an author immersed in his / her book, story etc, and then the book is done, and on to the next one. One book a love story, one a horror etc

[rick]

Yeah I hear that, That's cool. I have had NADA experience from anything like that. They/it or "the phenomenon" don't like to interact with me for some reason. I yell at them, curse them, call them all cowards. They all stay hidden. Will see I guess.

There is a lot of deception though, SO much deception! So if able, would really test a scenario and a being like that. Who really are you talking to?...

I've actually been considering that we will take the good memories and people and pets that are here with us, and live in our happiest time at that place with them. AKA that would be the thing we call heaven.

I think each one of us will be able to visit and stay in that special place we created in this life, and whenever we want and for however long we want.

As for myself, I have a fantastic wife, 14 cats and a beautiful peaceful property and house. I'm grateful for that, and can say I'm happy in that regard. When it's all gone, I and presumably my wife and pets we will all be able to be there together. In a more good favoring construct, hopefully.

[rick]

Doug look up Nathaniel Gillis on youtube. I guarantee it will be a great listen for you. If you have not already. I thought I heard it all until him.

His and his colleagues work is incredible.

Appreciate talking with ya! I'm doing Cat hospice right now, and its absolutely heart wrenching. So the comms are helpful.

[thepainterdoug]

Rick anyone that has 14 cats is a friend of mine. Most ll animals for that being said. However, the more attachments the more suffering, unless you can somehow accept that death is not a bad thing, but a transition onward.

[rick]

It's very true about attachments! Its a conundrum catch 22. 10 years ago it was myself and one cat. It pains me now to know I will lose all this and sometimes I think to myself WTF did I get myself into with future pain of loss.

However it is/was worth it!! Much more good memories than bad, and to be able to meet all these wonderful souls is mind boggling.

So to answer your original question, I can also say YES. But man is there some gnarley stuff to deal with that goes with it.

CAtcha 22, catcha 22.

I hope you have people and animals and joy in your life too! We just gotta put up with the loss. But if what I wrote is somewhat true then there really is no loss.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by rick (here)
It should be 50% positive and 50% negative. It's more like 20% good and 80% negative as it sits currently.

Posted by rick (here)
Or should I say its 66.666666% negative and 33.333333 good. lol.

I've been thinking about this for a while, and it may deserve a thread of its own. (Or maybe a poll!)

But just a question before I share any of my own thoughts. Regardless of whether it's 20% good or 33% good, could you take a moment to list those situations or developments that you see which make up the 20% or 33%?

This isn't a challenge of any kind. It might simply start a very interesting discussion. I've definitely got one or two things I'd like to add, but I'll wait for your reply first!

[Delight]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by rick (here)
It should be 50% positive and 50% negative. It's more like 20% good and 80% negative as it sits currently.

Posted by rick (here)
Or should I say its 66.666666% negative and 33.333333 good. lol.

I've been thinking about this for a while, and it may deserve a thread of its own. (Or maybe a poll!)

But just a question before I share any of my own thoughts. Regardless of whether it's 20% good or 33% good, could you take a moment to list those situations or developments that you see which make up the 20% or 33%?

This isn't a challenge of any kind. It might simply start a very interesting discussion. I've definitely got one or two things I'd like to add, but I'll wait for your reply first!

I am living in paradox here in this "place". For instance, like Rick and all of us, I lose people to death (cats are people too). In this situation, MENTALLY at this time, we hear SO MANY ideas about these bodies... all the variants of what we (and cats) should do or not do to live. Everyone still seems to die. Therefore, this paradox that being so ALIVE is paired with the body dying. THEREFORE IMO paradox IS the only truth in this realm. paradoxically we FEEL alive and see our friends ALIVE and then the body stops. THIS means to me that the paradox is incorporating a larger and unknown ALIVENESS to be conttrasted with temporary aliveness and the deadness in the "world". I am seeing a vertical pole which is NEVER ENDING alivenss without contrast and the horizontal pole (two crossing poles in a cross) being temporary aliveness. We IMO stand here in the crosspoint where we can experience the paradox. This make me happy because there is never and experience I cannot place in the same scheme. Take evil... IF EVIL is live backwards (inverted) and LIFE is GOOD, I can stand here in MY LIFE and see the plane of EVIL as being present AT THE SAME TIME as I FEEL and BE IN GOOD.

I have an elderly cat who has a serious problem. I have been trying out Chlorine dioxide and ivermectin and fenben because it looks like skin cancer on his nose. He is responding very slowly. I feel it would be inverted to run to the vet when he is eating, drinking and YET, I QUESTION my position sometimes. How do i choose what is "right"? Choosing IS what the LIFE meaning of OUR experience really is here.

My happiness is that I always feel I am in my divine space in the cross posts of this world's paradox WITH GOD who is always assisting me in dealing with paradox... WHAT DO I DO? I just do not have answers a lot of the time. Even GOOD and EVIL are NEVER hard and fast. It is all dependent with the experience. So many recall that evil can be used for good and what seems goood can then be seen as evil. PARADOX RULES.

I have cats and dogs and people in my life then they leave. God is always here. I know that LIFE is ever lasting, because as mysterious as it all is, I FEEL it to be so. I can live happily with this knowing. Happiness IMO is never found if you think you LIVE ONLY in the inverted realm where trauma, despair and SIMPLY unceasing F@@@ery is the presentation. You have to bring your OWN vertcal pole and stand in the middle to stand at all. IMO

[gini]

When i can i like to remember the advice of the Buddha:`Remember your miseries in the moments of your greatest joy,and remember your greatest joys when you are miserable`

[thepainterdoug]

Delight

I feel and relate to so much you wrote. my favorite line / " I have cats and dogs and people in my life then they leave. God is always here."

all we accumulate, we already know we will lose. And living with that reality is what all our lives are about.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
all we accumulate, we already know we will lose. And living with that reality is what all our lives are about.

Do see my 2016 thread:

• The Impermanence of All Things

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by rick (here)
It should be 50% positive and 50% negative. It's more like 20% good and 80% negative as it sits currently.

Posted by rick (here)
Or should I say its 66.666666% negative and 33.333333 good. lol.

I've been thinking about this for a while, and it may deserve a thread of its own. (Or maybe a poll!)

But just a question before I share any of my own thoughts. Regardless of whether it's 20% good or 33% good, could you take a moment to list those situations or developments that you see which make up the 20% or 33%?

This isn't a challenge of any kind. It might simply start a very interesting discussion. I've definitely got one or two things I'd like to add, but I'll wait for your reply first!

No answer from rick yet, so I'll up the ante a little. My own estimate of the current planetary negative/positive ratio is about 95/5 — at best. And it might be 98/2 or 99/1.

But personally, I'm not unhappy at all. That's because I know with certainty that I'm an eternal spiritual being who's inhabiting the human body called Bill Ryan just for a very brief time, and if or when things here become impossible, unbearable, or terminally discouraging I'll simply reincarnate somewhere else.

There are lots of other opportunities out there! Maybe a near-infinite number, given that there are an estimated 2 trillion galaxies in this universe alone. And if there's also an infinite number of parallel universes, that number of opportunities really does become infinite. Here's a companion thread in which some members have shared there own thoughts and feelings about this:

• Your next incarnation