Resistance is Futile!

I was watching one of my granddaughters have a hissy fit yesterday. And once it was over, we were trying to bring her round - make her smile and move on. Every time she relaxed enough to start smiling or laughing at our antics, she would immediately scowl to block the good feeling. Even at her age she was hanging on to the bad feeling. Of course eventually she surrendered to the irresistible tide and giggled and the rest of the morning went well for her.

It made me remember all the times I’ve done exactly the same thing. When I’ve returned to the painful thought over and over again like nagging at a sore tooth. When pride or righteousness has kept me thinking resentful thoughts. When it seems easier to stay stuck in a bad place because at least I know it. Stepping into the light seems such an effort sometimes!

What hooey! Being action driven beings we seem to think that joy and abundance are states we have to work hard to achieve. That we are going to have to do some complicated dance to get them to come to us. Sometimes we think we have to bribe them by becoming spiritual, good and super-human! Most of the time we make excuses to keep them at bay - ‘it’s not right to be happy when there is so much pain in the world’ or ‘we’re here to learn lessons the hard way, not to have fun’ or ‘no one I know is joyful and abundant so it doesn’t exist’.

As Abraham Hicks, The Secret and every spiritual leader is always telling us - joy and abundance are our birthright. They are already who and what every single human is. All we have to do is relax and notice something around us, something beautiful, uplighting, precious and inspiring. And don’t think that these moments don’t exist in every life. Some times the ‘hardest’ lives are the most inspiring, beautiful and precious. Ask any mother of a challenged child.

And each moment joy and abundance are experienced, it pushes the things you don’t want in your life further out of your consciousness. And the less focus you have towards the bad things in your life, the more room there is for joy and abundance to express itself. And the more you notice the things and people in your life which make you feel joyful and abundant, the more you will notice these emotions and experiences becoming your default setting. And then…

You find yourself giggling at your own resistance. You discover a new spring in your step as you walk down the road, noticing all the beautiful, funny, ingenious, inventive things spread out just for your enjoyment. Your eyes begin to sparkle in anticipation at the joyful and abundant experiences which you haven’t experienced yet but which are flooding your way. The world takes on a bright, shining quality when you see it through the true sight of your inner joyfulness and abundance.

These wondrous feelings become unstoppable, love of life blossoms in your heart and in your actions. You connect to the great dance of creation.

And all because you allowed a feeling space to grow.