Today’s topic is how to live in the Joy of life, especially when you feel like you are caught up a bit in the “drama.” The thing is, there is no drama. There are only things, experiences, people. And the interpretations that you add to them. Your interpretations are what make life seem dramatic. Life is not dramatic. You are.
Would you like to change this? Yes, you say? Do you really mean that? Most people actually like their drama on some level. It comforts them. It takes a lot of work to see life as it is: Life. Not drama. It is the human mind that puts things in as bad, dramatic, stressful, etc.
Okay, I mean, I can appreciate that thought, but what about people dying and wars and things? What about dangers? I mean, aren’t those dramatic?
They can be. It depends on who is experiencing them. Yet even that is an interpretation.
So if I’m in the middle of a war, and a grenade is going off five feet from me, you are saying that is not drama?
In the sense of stress, or a bad experience? It depends on who you are. Are you a valiant soldier feeling like you are alive in that moment? It might be the most thrilling thing you have ever experienced. Are you fighting for a cause you value? The same. Are you escaping to freedom? What do you have to gain from the situation? This particular “drama” might be wonderful for you.
And so it is with everything. You can’t say that one thing is really and truly one way, because it really depends on who is doing the looking.
Okay, I guess I can buy that. That makes sense. So you were saying.
If you want life to be peaceful, joyful, and radiating fun and well-being, then you need to radiate those things. You need to become those things, and then life will match what you radiate. Life will follow your view of it. What you perceive, you will receive.
If you wish to live in the Joy of Life, you simply need to access it in your own experience. You need to seek it out, experience it, and then broadcast it out to the world. It will come back to you then.
I like that. That makes sense, I have heard that kind of thing many times before. I like the idea of radiating what you want to attract. And “receiving what you perceive.” That’s cool. I like that.
These last few years, I have really sought to cultivate peace, inner harmony, and alignment with joy. I have seen it doing great things. I am always at work to create more of this.
Then you are always at work in attracting more Joy into your life. What you give off, you bring to yourself. It is Law.
Lol. Yeah, so I hear. I like that, thank you very much. I am personally quite busy looking at how I can move all my thoughts in that direction as much as possible! It’s very exciting to think what is possible from this.
Don’t get us wrong that you will be able to avoid “conflict,” “contrast,” what you might call drama. Life is an ever-evolving process. It’s your interpretation though that is up to you. You can see it as part of the process. You can see it as a necessary step in your own growth and healing. You can choose how to look at things in your life.
It sounds like such a sensible idea, yet why can it seem so hard to choose how we look at things?
Because you are attached. You are attached to old ideas that don’t serve you, don’t make you happy, and no, it’s not always easy to let those go. They continue to impact how you see things, and then you think that it is hard to change your mind. It’s not hard, it’s just that part of you holds on to the attachment.
Yeah. I see that. I see how attached I have been to getting approval from people. I see it in my own career and business life. I can get so easily twisted up if people don’t say “Yes” to me. I have a lot of old attachments to the importance of other people’s opinions validating me. This has been a hard thing to overcome!
And yet you are doing the work. Don’t forget that! See how far you are coming.
Well, at least I am open to this conversation. And also, laying it all out here for “everybody” to read, I mean, it’s uncomfortable, but it reinforces the idea that I can choose, that I can change. It’s sort of like announcing from the top of the tower to the world. You know, putting my own word on the line.
There can be value in committing publicly. As long as you don’t do it in order to get a particular response from others. It is valuable for you to do because it helps you bring it to consciousness, and that bit of accountability can be very good. Yet if you are attached to other people’s reactions, you may have the same problem all over again!
Ha. I see your point for sure. 🙂