Joy Versus False Excitement

so in any time that we've had in existence history and so forth on this planet we might assume there were times of greater peace but somebody's always died there's always been an illness of some kind even if there wasn't global wars world wars there were there were still conflicts somewhere in the in the world on one continent or another and so on you know it's it's hard for us to hear because we so many of us are are brought up in our version of spirituality not religion but spirituality

you know have this you know kind of the spiritual the new age notions of isn't life wonderful and rainbows and butterflies and so on so it's a really beautiful positive artistic way of seeing the world but from the deepest spiritual teachings that exist this world is considered and referred to as a fallen world so in other words there was a time when there was no death when there was no limitation when there was no illness there was no lack and limitation no conflict of any kind now why would we want to

defend a world that has the opposite why would we want to say you know oh i don't want anybody you know criticizing i think that for example the body is the temple of god no it isn't the body is a miscreation the body didn't exist when we were one with all that is love the body was a crystallization a manifestation you know just like there are some creatures especially you know sea creatures but creatures that their very process of grinding away creates their outer shell our very process of having lived on this planet having come

into the material world our inner stuff about having lost sight of our divinity ground out this shell we call the body then we started worshiping it isn't the body wonderful i don't know you die if that's wonderful to you great you age if that's wonderful you get sick but i'm saying that's not as good as it gets people that think that nature is the absolute greatest depiction of god are you know fairly messed up because that means that's to you because if god is as good as anything can be and you think

nature is the greatest manifestation of god and in nature one creature eats another there's a problem if you think that that you know suns that can burn out planets that can collide etc etc etc it just tells us that wow how sad that you believe that's as good as it gets how do you explain to a child but mommy how why did daddy die well honey are you going to hit him with the religious answer it's just the mysteries of god which means i have no clue how do you explain these things you know how do you explain to your own

heart if you lose lose a child the human you know the heart knows things the mind knows not of there's there are things more things in heaven and earth that are dreamt of in your philosophies well what that means is our soul knows far more than our body and our spirit knows far more than our soul our spirit was created holy and perfect in god's image for how long forever that can never change but what we can do is that's the divine up here what we can do is believe contrarily and once you believe contrarily you

manifest the lower three chakras your physical emotional and intellectual self starts manifesting the results of that belief now is it horrible that we miscreated a world is it horrible that we have limiting beliefs no it's not horrible because ultimately it's not true here in my spiritual self my i am god presence the christ that i am knows differently but bloody hell rest of me just doesn't get it because i believe i have doubts and then it keeps manifesting the more humans identify with this limited self out here again out being

the lower chakra experience when we think we're just physical and emotional beings what does it mean it means i'm in my lower chakras not cursing lower chakras i'm saying i'm merely identifying myself as being a human and some people say well you have to accept you know you're just a human being no you're not you're pretending to be a mere mortal a divine being is pretending to be a mere mortal which is really odd it's not like you know they're bragging about that in heaven hey did you hear divine beings are

pretending they're not divine anymore it's not like that's god i wish i could get that that's not boasted of in heaven there's just pity you're kidding why would anybody in their right mind do that they wouldn't but these people are not clearly not in their right minds they they want to they want to pretend that they're limited they want to pretend they don't like each other they want to pretend that they can die or that they can have bills to pay what's a bill they say in heaven you wouldn't understand

bills or debts what kind of debts could you have how could you be god and have a debt well we have no explanations for what these people have dreamt up but but in on earth you you have this thing where you couldn't manifest something so you made up a way to get it anyway and it's called going into debt so you owe somebody to get that thing who's what do you mean somebody you know we're all one no no in on earth they pretend there's someone else that has something they don't have so they get it from them

and then they owe them this is absurd there is no one else to be indebted to but somebody's going to pretend they have something you don't have and why would you want to believe they have it and this is romance too you know you you make me feel attractive you make me feel whatever you know so i'm going to go into debt called i do and and i'm going to owe you and there's even you know a contract of some kind and people in over lifetimes go into debt like that i can never be happy because let's see

it was 18 lifetimes ago i made vows to never love anybody but you and then figured out three days later i didn't very much like that idea you know and it already wanted to break the contract and and and somebody said oh no those are vows and god doesn't want you to not be married forever and so on and so we conjured up this strange world so needless to say happiness isn't foremost in our lives and and and to to reference a couple of the questions here how to handle this week or any other tense week or storms weather coming

elections happening and so on and so on illnesses and pandemics this is life on earth we have to be careful not to act too shocked and surprised that these things these things happen this is a fallen world now i'm not saying curse the world i'm saying recognize as the lao tzu quote that was shared that the outside world is coming from the inside so i need to actually work on this my soul level beliefs more than i need to fix the outside world because people you know everything's really about god when you think you're gonna you know

storm a building and take it over and when you're gonna take over a country and all these external things it doesn't actually work all you do is stir stuff up it's like going into a room to clean it and just quickly dusting everything and watching the dust blow around and it just settles again the illusion that i cleaned the room but you really didn't you moved the dust around that's all you did and and in this world that's all you're doing when you vote and somebody else you know is in office only the names

change the the consciousness is behind it all and when we as human beings started failing to believe our true deservability in a better life we stopped manifesting good relationships good authority figures good role models and we just went into a trance where we continually believed we felt further and further into low self-worth not an individual the human race forgot who they are and then from that belief that tone that vibration it sends a signal out we would like to create new leaders how when you're still messed up in your

own mind so the correction has to be done on the inside so how do you deal with the tensions and potential tensions weather or whatever it else is that's coming our way find yourself you know just find your center be the change that you'd like to see in the world and when people try to scare you with these kinds of announcements don't shame them and don't shut them down overtly to where you're you're offending but just ask yourself how can i be the presence right now capital p presence how can i

be the difference that i'd like to see in this world and and if you're out in the world and you know people are fussing about wearing masks or people are fussing about whatever other things are going on in the world being the presence doesn't mean speaking at all it might it might mean speaking but it doesn't have to sometimes it's just a smile or a reassurance you know look at the way children and animals can sense a frequency without a lot of words they can just sense a you know someone's

like calm and it's interesting because they typically will look over at the person who's holding space something in them sees it and knows it there could be all this commotion and somebody over there just a child's head is going to turn towards that person they know something that everybody else that's yelling doesn't seem to know they too can get scared because of all this commotion but it's kind of amazing a stranger can walk up to a scared child or animal for that matter and hold presents and reach their arms

out and often even a stranger would be appealing more than a crazy familiar person healthy people are attracted to niceness and unhealthy people are unfortunately attracted to unhealthy all too often there's exceptions to the rule here and there but generally speaking it's the weirdest thing you know i've shared that quote many times a good old john bradshaw you know who was so big into codependent work and inner child work you know and how he said i always knew in a party who the most screwed up person in the room would be it'd be the

one i was most attracted to that's just beautiful like wow you know he didn't have to go and you know muscle testing you know let's see he just oh that's an attractive person boy they're probably an addict too and they're probably you know he just knew that's responsible because it's like my stuff is like a little beacon you know a little beaker a beacon uh like you know little beep beep beep you know like oh look at that person perfect that's going to be perfect dysfunctional like me and there's

variables sometimes i want to feel better about myself so i get someone who's slightly less dysfunctional you know or slightly more dysfunctional or slightly you know what i'm saying it's like i want to feel a little better so you need to be worse than i am i want to feel really down so i get somebody that looks like they've got it together somewhat yet they're full blown messed up all these you know illusions that we set ourselves up for so and one of the comments was playfulness this concept of

like the external being a playful kind of a person to me means being liked but playfulness is part of what's behind something else called happiness if you're not happy how can you authentically be playful but then behind happiness is joy you can't actually feel happy without joy now happiness is not what you're thinking stimulation forms of happiness that's fake you know i'm oh man i'm really happy you know no you're not you're stimulated you're on coke you know or whatever it might be

or coca-cola for that matter you know um god i feel great yeah how you doing oh i feel great i've had my coffee that's not joy that's just chemical reaction that's just stimulation oh i feel great because somebody looked at me today and you know complimented and made me feel young and attractive you know anyway that's not happiness true happiness comes from joy and joy is a state of divine feeling so how do i increase my playfulness my happiness my joy remember playfulness is the outer manifestation

happiness is an emotion but it should all come from the feeling a divine feeling the external playfulness is a is a external manifestation it's like lower chakra doesn't mean bad i'm saying it's a manifestation of the neck chakra an emotion happiness which should be coming from another thing called feeling in the heart of joy which comes from connectedness to god so what i'm describing there's two groups of people that think they're playful or happy for that matter one is a fake version one is a real

version if you're not plugged into god and you don't feel joy then we know it's not real simple as that so to really understand happiness there's a couple of things we've got to really come to understand and one of them is it doesn't come from anything outside of us what people think of you should not raise or lower your happiness level it's going to be tempted and tempting to go that route gosh you know i i was voted the number one of something or other and you're gonna feel a little high on

that and then you go oops michael was saying it should be coming from god not from external don't shame that it happened externally what i'm saying is you can take it back a notch and say but i choose to make this an internal experience as well so don't just get caught in the external when it's happening don't shame it wrong it just turn it into something deeper i notice that i'm feeling really great today and i'm noticing yeah some of it came from the fact that i i won the lottery or someone told me i was the most

attractive person they've ever met or and you notice it well i it's not my fault they're the one who said it what do i do shame it no just stop and go but i recognize and accept this is really about who i am even if i feel a little up you know a great step you know in my in my walk and then i realize it's because somebody really told me how great looking i am or something just stop and say but deep down deep down that was a manifestation of the divine in them seeing the divine in me just turn it into something more

positive and spiritual don't leave it on the shallow level because then it dies on the vine we can turn it back into something profound and then when you do that it's great because i took a stimulus into a divine feeling and now it's mine forever so now somebody's compliment was made into something amazing and eternal if it's only left on the outside it's done as soon as it occurs as soon as someone says oh you look great you feel great for a second it's not going to last because it's not rooted

in anything that real that's real and eternal that's um to a degree that's what jesus was saying when he talked about prosperity and so forth or when you when you do a kind deed he says if you do a kind deed and you're looking for a compliment external stimulus it's already done and he said that's over there's nothing left that you'll receive from that but he says when you do kindness in the secret place in your heart it stays it becomes treasure in heaven that's what he's using he's using as a

metaphor for what i'm describing here so sometimes we go to the extreme and say oh i don't want anybody to ever know i'm doing anything good i don't want any thanks because then jesus won't be grateful when i get to the other side you know that's taking it a little too extreme but turn it into something deeper even when somebody looks at you and they're just on a totally base level you know the you know whistling as you walk by a construction site or somebody's whatever it is you have the

right to say to yourself to the person in your mind you have no idea but thanks for reminding me you think you're attracted to the way i look and i mean you can be all dressed looking hot whatever it's not the point the point is i'm gonna turn this into this is about divinity something in you is drawn to something beautiful in me thank you for reminding me of my beauty turn it into something of a higher nature don't shame yourself and start putting layers of clothes to hide your look but you've done that in other lifetimes

you know nuns and whatever other garbs you put on to to kind of stay away from looking nice you know just draping and so on it's okay to look good it's okay to feel good but turn it into something better it's like a teacher osho would say even the tweeting of birds is a sensual and beautiful thing not because they're getting it on but the the birds are tweeting it's the life underneath it's like why are they singing when the sun comes up whatever you think it is well it's their way of communicating it's their way of

expressing some sort of mating ritual it's not the point that's the outside inside it's called life whether they're leading to mating whether they're leading to food whatever it's still called life so there's a higher vibration a higher purpose behind even the sound of a song of a bird so somebody whistles at you we need to get used to turning everything into a higher message hidden behind every act of your body to try to fight a sickness it's not the sickness that's the important thing

it's just there as a symbol it's not even your immunity trying to fight it and the magnificence of how the body works because that's still an illusion as well you know what's amazing is that why would my immunity even do that because inside me there's a desire to live and what's behind that the presence of god the source of all life and even if i die i can turn that turn everything into a deeper meaning i can look at death as a failure a death of sickness got the best of me or i can say ah

i've really done a lot of work in this lifetime i can see that i've made a difference i'm really grateful whatever difference you've made even if it's only one thing you've ever done that was right still and now i need to rest just turn it into i rest in god even turn that into something different something beautiful and profound it's called free will we can do that we have the right to turn something into a more beautiful experience there's not one bottle you ever picked up and drank to try to get drunk

that wasn't a quest for god just misdirected there's not one person that ever did ask to do the colors and whatever else it wasn't really looking for god it's just not in the direction that you'll actually find god everything everything is an attempt every sexual act everything has always been a quest for god and if you say oh then i was really questing man because i slept with like 500 people yeah and um what's odd is you didn't figure it out after the first one 500 people later you're still like this

one for sure and all you need to do is get it it doesn't matter if it took you 5 000 attempts at getting drunk or stoned or sex or whatever did you get it because when you leave this lifetime all they want to know is did you get it and when you say no but another 500 should do they're just sending you back as a person whose organs don't work you know just to add a little frustration to it all you know you'll be alone on an island somewhere you know you're gonna have to deal with it did you get it did you learn and whatever

our misdirections were which often you can discover by things like uh numerology or your astrology that that often is showing you your gifts and challenges and in my opinion our gifts are usually there to help us overcome our challenges that most people don't see it and think it through like that i'm a really great communicator but i'm really messed up with a connection with my body it's you know then to me would be how do i use communication to get more in touch with my body or if it's the other way around so be it

using our strengths you have them for a reason well i was told that i have these challenges the challenges were never meant to be the end of the story for you challenges are always something we can meet and overcome that's why we're here you didn't come back just to share your wonderful gifts if you're here there's likely something you can improve upon and it could be self-worth it could be um having better boundaries it could be getting an addiction you know under control whatever it happens

to be edgar casey used a phrase that some people got confused by when he did his readings a life readings like meaning all the lifetimes with people they would say has this person ever lived in ancient egypt and if so what happened there he often would say this soul gained and lost that was his way of wording it and the way he was what he was getting to was here's where they got lessons and improved upon things here's an area that they ignored and didn't get quite right now jesus later in the diary notes of

helen who received from him a course in miracles he said casey probably should have fine-tuned the wording of that a little and he's saying because gained and lost is kind of a a linear way to have observed our our our past our lessons and all that uh jesus was trying to give a more a more positive perspective meaning even if you didn't get your lessons it doesn't mean you actually lost guess why they're coming back so there's actually never a loss because when you look at time as an illusion then you

don't have 100 lifetimes of ignoring your lessons technically it's one your experience in the world of illusion and you're going to eventually get it so jesus was simply trying to go to a deeper level with it saying everybody's going to get it but you and i know that that still doesn't work for us we still want to get it it's an illusion but i still have to get it while i'm here so whatever the lessons are it's less attachment or less susceptibility to to attachment to people or to money or

whatever whatever the lessons are i've got to get those and if i want to raise my level of god's presence it's there's things i need to do and not do and one of them when it relates to the feeling of joy i want to i want to be happy and you all of us should ask ourselves are you happy be careful before you jump with the new age answer you know oh yes i'm totally oh he's happy okay but are you truly happy and and do not think that i'm telling you you must be 24 7. there's nothing wrong with having

a low day or whatever okay but are you truly happy and is it fairly consistent i think that's a good thing to go yes but most human beings believe it or not don't feel that way it's quite sad if you think about it and if you're not happy technically you're depressed and it's quite depressing to not be happy think about it so somebody says oh i'm one of those he's talking about depression that's called clinical depression everybody's depressed not experiencing god 24 7 fully blissfully is depressing

that's why people many people one of the reasons many people don't think too much about god is it's depressing because if you start thinking about god you're going to think about how you're made in the image of god you're one with god but i don't feel like it so i'd rather think of something else than the fact that i'm not feeling something that i could never really lose track of sight of feeling of connection to so it's like okay my happiness level somebody wrote to me i think it was maybe they posted it on

youtube and they said here's what was meaningful to me in a talk i heard you share michael you said god actually wants us to be happy like should i take this job or this job i think it was maybe last week we talked about this but should i do this or this and i said you think god actually wants one or the other that's not how this works there isn't a god job and an ego job and i just and look at the conflict we feel which one is it pendulum and tarot and muscle testing and you know like i'm going to do dream work on it

you know which one of them is the god one and the reason you don't get clear answers is because you don't have a clear question you're saying which one's the god decision and god is saying i don't care you must care which one which one which one i don't care all i care about is you happy being happy no that can't be right let me do it again you know get this right another you know another question another chance at this and it's so hard for people just to realize god just says i love you so much the right answer

is the one that most resonates with your happiness no there's got to be another one no you know because we have big decisions you know jobs should i marry this person or not you know god's like i wouldn't but no i'm kidding but um you know it's like what resonates with happiness but not stimulation because that's where some people say well i followed the right one and then it went badly you followed stimulation you said well which relationship well wait michael said that god wants us to be happy well that

one's pretty hot i'm pretty happy about that and you go with that but that wasn't asking correctly happiness i said is supposed to be rooted not in stimulation but in joy which of these choices resonates with joy and joy is not like joy you know it's it's this a feeling of connectedness like almost like a i feel so happy i heal i feel happiness for everyone it's not like i see you're bummed out i'm feeling a lot of joy wow me joy you're happy you know it's really just happiness which is

really just stimulation real joy is like i feel so good how are you today how can i make a difference in your life and even when somebody doesn't look good you see good in them somehow because you're so filled with joy that even when you look on at somebody who's ill somehow you're seeing goodness in them brightness in them i mean joy is this really beautiful profound not passive in the way we think of it it's actually expressive and we hear you know examples of that in scriptures and so on but it's the birds

singing in the morning that is their singing but underneath it it's joy because they're connected to life and someone is in their house looking out the window at the birds you know you know thinking oh god you guys woke me up and they're all bummed about it you know oh you know looking all miserable out the window what's wrong with you birds you know get a life you know and then you got to go over and start making each you know whatever that you know your gadgets for coffee and on and you know you know and and you stretch

and you know and then get in your car and go to work how come the birds are singing about work i get to go foraging for food today you know and you're like i'm miserable i got to go to work i don't like my job i don't like anything so god is saying please take responsibility please consider that you're not a victim of the world you see if you think it's miserable that's a good place to start changing not you're bad for thinking miserably you're bad for losing some of your gains that you could have

had in lifetimes it's just now where are you going to go with it i choose life i just i just choose life and god wants god the all-powerful creative expressive being of the universe wants nothing more than my happiness that seems surreal well you know you mean he wants you know a general happiness in the world as long as we don't have war and no no god wants happiness for the guy that's in a dugout a trench in war he wants it for a crazy dictator that's all god doesn't say i want happiness only for good people

well who are they that means we'd have ruled out groups of people throughout history all along so it's for everybody and if you think i want to be happy but i don't want somebody that's been mean to me and hurt me to not be happy if you do that you're segmenting your own happiness kind of cutting out your own happiness to a degree so you'll never have total happiness because it's not totally uh desired for everybody i wish happiness upon everybody yeah but somebody hurt me but they wouldn't have if they were

happy so you can hate them and think that might get them back for what they did or you can live dangerously in a good way and wish happiness for them and they won't harm anybody else which one would you like to do no i'm still not going to wish that for them that's okay then okay it's okay you're going to be a client you know who's miserable you know you're going to be sad depressed aching and so on and on you're going to be somebody's client somewhere if not today and then next

week next month next year next lifetime at some point you're going to go to somebody and say hey listen i don't know why but such and such hurts and they're going to help you track it and eventually you're going to be back to the conversation about the person that you refused to wish love upon and you can take lifetimes to get there because god only wills and wishes for your happiness so it's going to happen well no i don't want it yet well good another lifetime will do then but time is running out

so you can't just go well i'm just gonna run away from this i'm gonna sneak away from that i'm gonna you know avoid and deny and repress and time's running out it's happening now where people when they pass away they're incarnating faster than ever in history because if time is running out there's no more buffer there's no more place where you can go and hide and go well um i'm going to just spend three lifetimes on venus you know uh in some blissful happy you know loving kind of experience

no the doors are closing on every other dimension you have to keep coming here you don't get to go anywhere for a long prolonged period you get to the other side and it's like your papers please okay quickly that subway right there you know boom they just put you in a shuttle right back to the earth plane you know and it's like wow you know you were the you know somebody that was you know a jerk they already incarnate again and now you're you're a cougar and you're dating the person that was your parent that you

didn't like they came in they're 20 years younger than you're like wow like younger people you know and it's it's your own parent that came back because nobody can go very far away we're back people are becoming their own grandchildren that's just creepy you know so um thinking that i'm one out of here which is a typical thought we all have at times but i want out of here i jokingly say that at times but it's like um get out of here and you're coming right back anyway so your better bet is to make

the life you have the absolute best instead of well if i weren't in this lifetime clearly i would have a better lifetime if i could exit and come back what makes you think that because you're still you if you had abandonment issues now and you die or take your life or anything like that and you come back you just have abandonment squared you know all they do is turn the flame up hotter on your issues so that you don't miss them next time and that turning the flame up is called hell you know it's the burning there's the

burning desire for me to work on this because behind it all is my quest for god but there's also the burning desire to deny these things in myself that's inner conflict and that's why we get sick and that's why we hurt emotionally because we're constantly trying to avoid that which we should embrace and release but humans don't do this not as a habit anyway so happiness which comes from joy which comes from connectedness to god happiness know what it isn't it does not come from anyone or anything outside yourself

before you need to know what happiness is know what it isn't then begin looking at happiness comes from a few things one of them first foremost it's a choice and don't ever forget that i can feel happy and joyous but it's a choice well no it's no if something's not going well it's not my fault i know so own it cry scream into a pillow therapy it do whatever you need to do but at some point say to yourself and it's still a choice drag yourself outside into your yard i don't have a

yard i only have an apartment go out on your porch oh there i can't go on my porch because you know it's in a rough area you know people are going to shoot me if i'm out on my balcony okay go in your bathroom lay in your tub i only have a shower then stand in your shower and pretend that it's some sort of ascension chamber you know but go sit or stand somewhere and say even with humor oh my god i'm going to think about this for a moment nope today wins this is the most miserable day i've ever had in all my

existence and in all lifetimes i'm checking nope even in other lifetimes i've never been so miserable say it get it out and then say and and then that that guy michael was saying that it's a choice it's not a choice this happened i woke up this way that's okay be mad at me i don't mind then say but he said it's a choice so what i'm going to do is say i'm angry miserable et cetera et cetera but i would like to feel differently just try it just a just an ounce of happiness would be nice and you just

close your eyes and breathe and imagine that you're drawing that into your being happiness i just i know it's not going to work because i'm jumping do it anyway happiness happiness have any flowers rainbows happiness and try it you'd be surprised what happens when you crack open the neuron that you're trying to lock shut even if it's just a picture of flowers it could be were you in your ascension chamber called your shower and you're done and you might have had in that ascension chamber you might have

had a thought i'm going to go listen to a certain song and it might be that song that externally will be the thing see it's here it's happening the outside isn't what made me happy the outside became an inspiration to act it out you see the difference that song doesn't make me not depressed that song i'm choosing because i've already chosen to not be depressed it's the dance on the outside some people it's going to be to dance you know some people it's going to be sing a song that you always thought was

a ludicrous song then sing it oh god i hate that song then sing it louder so you can laugh at yourself you know just find a way to break the tension break the spell you're in and whatever it might be some sometimes it's it's you know a poem that you i've never written a poem and yet you go well i've never written one but okay that that's kind of weird why did that come to me sing a song or something sometimes you go for a walk and you come back and you go this is weird i forgot that i was miserable i went for

a walk i came back on a zero to ten scale i was feeling a two and now i feel like an eight how did that happen well you can analyze it if you want but i would just start giving thanks and another thing to change that that quotient of of of peace happiness joy is share it with other people i don't care if it's literally to go and serve in a soup kitchen or if it's less obvious and you just go into a store and and give a card with 10 bucks in it to somebody it's hard to stay miserable when you're

bringing joy to other people okay so think about this joy and happiness they're a choice and lastly joy and god and peace and joy all that god is is always here when i say it's a choice as though we're gonna go get it it's here the choice is actually to get out of the way now don't get me wrong i know there's days in my life and have been days in my life where something was so off some tensions or some things were going on that were so intense i was viscerally dead viscerally terrified viscerally

angry or whatever it was things do happen to us so if somebody just lost a child michael isn't saying well get over it you know it'll help as you're still in the hospital and they just told you just jump and click your heels start singing just a spoonful of sugar makes it and you're gonna be all better you know what i would just say mourn cry and it's okay process but there's a moment where you can get out of bed maybe a day later maybe it's a month later where you'll get out of bed and shower off and say

and now i'm going to start living again give yourself permission to resurrect after your crucifixion it's still a choice i'm not telling you how quickly you should make yourself choose it that's more of an allowing but it is nice to know that i can allow that and it's nice to know that i can allow myself to be sad an extra day but the more i grow spiritually the sooner i get used to bouncing back if you inherited money and you've had lack all your life and you inherit money and and you go i'm

gonna save it though i want to be careful so you invest it stock market dies the next day oh that's great for sure for sure uh you know a nice beatles song should make it all better you know all you need is love and i'll sing along and i'll smile that i just lost everything you know is it real is it no no i'd i'd be pretty upset too and you get scared and it's you're you're you're you're of age to where you don't have extra money and that was your that was your money and somebody ripped

you off you know in one of those scams and an elderly person with no money no i i don't think that i could tell you just click your heels and everything's fine i'd be scared i'd be sad i understand that but i would do my best to not forget my center somewhere here there is perfect joy out here not so much but somewhere here and that's why you hear jesus talking about faith in god that's why in the old testament you're about the holy spirit telling people you know have faith if everything around you is dead

keep your eye on the light at the end of the tunnel well that light looks like a pinprick in the darkness it's nothing it's too small it's far away true but keep moving in that direction because it's certain you're going to get there at some point and every forgiveness and every surrender of an old wound and an old thought system takes you quantum leaps closer to that light besides how much good is it going to do to dwell on the darkness in the tunnel i mean i might as well just keep going when we decide i don't have it in me

i'm gonna i'm just gonna take my life or all right i don't have it in me i don't have any nice people around me whatever all of that is already the outside statements like that are already telling me i've already made a decision inside to give up how do i look at that it's kind of sad how would you feel that way if it was a child of yours that said you know mom i'm i'm giving up i get f's in school and the other kids don't like me would you really advise them to give up

no why because you like them then advise yourself if you like yourself honey you know it's okay it's not okay look what's going i know honey somewhere deep inside you this is not happening and it's not affecting you deep inside you cannot be betrayed but but on the outside i know honey but you're not the outside the real you is the inside great so you're telling me advising me to have some sort of an alternate experience of some other dimension inside which you know they often put you in

hospitals for thinking this way everything on the outside sucks but i'm in another dimension in my dimension everything has flowers parking lots too and when we park our cars the flowers scoot over so we don't run them over there's no violence no nothing negative in my dimension i know how that looks but most of all instead of fabricating all the external beauties try to find the inner beauty deep inside me is the spark the light the flame of god that has never been affected by anything in history anything in the

present and anything in the future nothing can touch this my divinity is so solid it's forever and i want to start tasting that i thought that when someone gives a flattery it raises my good feeling today my good feeling is raised permanently when i see it comes from my flattering myself in a positive way recognition of who i am so it's kind of a reversal of all the the normal laws if you think about it i want to be happy i don't want the stuff of this coming week in my life to to get the best of me then prepare put on the armor of the

lord what's the armor of the lord is that my defense is no it's called love love is impenetrable real love my happiness i'm i refuse to let it you know fail so i find happiness i find joy inside and if i've got to go to the store before you go say to yourself i heard that there's stuff going on in the world i'm going to remind myself not to lose sight of this when i go in and just remember it's like saying all right god i'm going in you know and you have a choice don't turn on the news if you don't think you

can handle it but remember i'm going in if i'm not back in minutes send the troops in after me you know just think of it that way i'm going in you go into the store you're going to a meeting whatever it happens to be and there's all this usual conflict or news and i'm going to be the difference i'm going to make a difference today you see what i'm saying like feel like you're actually a holy warrior a really beautiful spiritual warrior don't make yourself better than the other people but make

yourself into somebody who is choosing to not forget who they are today it makes a difference let's take a few centering breaths just reflect eyes closed and reflect what you heard that makes sense what you heard that can make a difference in your life my happiness is a choice if i feel down or depressed it's not just meaning i chose depression it means maybe that i didn't choose joy which is depressing [Music] uh

hear every note [Music] like it's a song of the soul it's a it's an arousing of my soul come out imagine you've heard these kinds of sounds for lifetimes sometimes those notes of music were peeling away of wounds and hurts let the music seduce away all the hurts and peel them off [Music] let each note activate something inside the notes are notes of deep mystery

make believe that those notes are happy and that they're doing something to your soul imagine that they're evoking a desire to dance just slowly dancing moving not in the mechanicalized ways of typical people but you're just like a tree and the breeze blowing through and the tree is so happy the tree is given life by the air and the sun we can't see the roots absorbing water that's giving it life or the minerals but that's what's happening one tree is a full expression of life a tree is a symbol of joy

and just imagine that so are you imagine some children came to get out of the heat and they came into the shade of you the tree and these children decided to just lie back and listen to the sound of the breeze blowing through your leaves your being just picture it picture them smiling [Music] picture those children feeling so safe even without realizing that's the word that they fall asleep for a little while my choice to not be caught up in the world means that i become a safer person for

others and there are days when even i as a tree feel the heat a bit too much and i'm grateful that there are other trees bigger trees that give me shade and lastly imagine being that tree the children wake up and they start playing they're tumbling in the grass they're playing hide and seek but try to imagine listening to the giggles of children how could you possibly not feel a bit happier as a tree today knowing that you helped create that space [Music]

and you the tree look over at other trees and you wink at them because you realize hey guys we're part of a beautiful ecosystem soak that up soak it in and quietly feel gratitude and when you're ready you can open your eyes and stretch out now please don't take messages like this too lightly it's not a talk about happiness it's an experience think about like i soak this experience in

i get it stimulation towards happiness is not what i'm looking for it's the real thing how does it happen connection to god and a choice to feel more joy in your heart and soul every day bring that to other people and you're going to see it manifesting more in your life it's an interesting reflection again people think of a root chakra they think of all the kinds of exercises to activate their root chakra to make you more grounded to make you more prosperous to make you more healthy all of it sounds good for root chakra

you can try all kinds of things but most people do not know that one of the most if not the most crucial means of activating your root chakra is to be of service to make a difference in people's lives what does that have to do i mean i've got my grounding you know and i i hug a tree and i wear space boots you know so that i know that i'm grounded you know and i eat red meats and do other things to ground me what does service have to do with it here's the secret when you bring good to other people

it makes you want to be alive and that turns your root chakra on it does because you have a sense of purpose when you have purpose you want to be here when you don't have purpose you'll start to disconnect from the planet even more so a lot of us that feel a little spaced out a little ungrounded it's it's remedied by seeing the difference you make in the world and if you don't feel you make a difference i would probably make some changes in my life we're going to do the collection please and then our

closing mantra let's take a moment to really get that everything in this world is changing the way people have conducted business is dying religion is dying politics are dying science is dying now it's not like horrible dying it's dying because it never lived they only seemed to exist for a little while when people thought themselves so limited they needed their religion to tell them this the science to tell them that the politics to tell them that and now if you and i are waking up we're retiring all that

and it looks horrible and violent and catastrophic sometimes but i'm ascending into a new dimension now where that doesn't exist there so i'm seeing the the process of death which seems scary but if you've done hospice work and you know that people start to see lights in jesus and whatever it's not that bad it's quite beautiful think of that for religion and science and government don't just just see them as they're dying so that they can be born to a new level and that is actually

great news laugh at it a little as well god why did i ever get too caught up in this or that and you see see see it for what it is something that's eternal would not look as ridiculous as politics you can quote me on that i just made that up but still just feels so right let it let it let it pass it's not an accident that many churches aren't open if i were those churches i would be saying to myself what are most of them oh we'll be open again soon you're lying to yourself not that you won't be open soon but

there's a reason to be closed in the first place because you're already closed in here you've got to change please and if you don't worse things will come to the world to help you in that process so whether it's science or politics or look how silly it is and there will be some people who still get loud about it and passionate and intense about it why because when the ego's dying it screams louder to live buy into it and you one of the faithful ones that should have been holding the lights dropped your job

doused it out and became afraid in the darkness like everybody else i'm in this world too i'm in here this too i can lose a job i can go all the things that can happen to anybody can happen to me so i'm not pretending to be immune to it all i just know that there's a part of me that is immune to it all and the more i identify with that part of me the less effect the other has and i'm very grateful and we should all be grateful at the very least start with the fact that we have each other i have this program every sunday i can

sit in sacred space sacred service and hear the truth and that feeds my soul is it just a fad this isn't bingo like some churches you know you know cupcake drives and bingo car washes we're all too old to be going out and washing everybody's cars on the street anyway but you know but but you know and people are watching from all over the world they can't be here for that but you know what it's it's not it was never supposed to be bingo not that that's okay that's totally fine to do when you made that your focus

jesus started turning over tables in the temple because he's like you've got to be kidding me where's the teacher for today who's doing the sacred service oh well we we didn't decide to do that this weekend because we have some other things going on we're doing some trading like stock market trading here in the church he's like oh no we're not going to have this you know tip tips over the tables and and the way they record it and the lord wenteth nutseth but he didn't he didn't lose his center

he didn't hate anybody he just said bull no and you can say no without hating anybody he's just no let's have a reflection of reality here boom table's over to make them all do what people are in the world trying to do right now oh my god everything's going nuts just like when he turned over the tables because he's saying the way you were doing things isn't real let me help you get a glimpse of this so he reflected that to them and how did they react anger how's the world reacting now anger

how are you supposed to react like the christ say no if you really feel compelled say yes if you feel compelled but center in god whatever the case right now we're going to give and share donations understand if you have nothing to put in the bag or basket please let us all hold space for you so that you can become more prosperous it is god's will that you be great that you feel great and happy which won't come from money but when you feel great you'll start manifesting differently but don't forget to share it then it

becomes permanent in your being give not gratuitously give liberally give because you know you can it's another form of life so we hold our love offering to our heart and if i have nothing to put in the basket we're all holding space that you are indeed prosperous we believe that you are the presence of god there's no lack in you so know that we're holding space saying you're absolutely abundant and we're advising start watching now for signs of abundance even if it's a penny on the street you find pick it up and

say thank you let's go for a dime then a dollar then a lottery at some point you are deserving of all that god is but if you deny it push it away or fail to give thanks then it means you're already living death father mother god we give thanks abundant gratitude see the donations helping many people see your gifts and your changes in your own heart and soul changing and affecting many people see that you can afford to get 10 bucks to somebody in line at a grocery store just see it i'm dancing i'm alive i'm feeling joy

divine love flowing through me blesses and multiplies all that i am all that i have all that i give and all that i receive and so it is thank you while they're passing those around can anybody share what they learned or heard today that made the most sense or that can make a difference in your life or the lives of people around you yesterday nice thank you thank you very much dear you know about becoming the change you want to see in the world but she also liked you know that that your gifts are what's going to

help you overcome your challenges and that would also mean that your ego is going to try to use your challenges to snuff out your gifts do you want that to happen no then do something about it nurture those gifts give thanks for those gifts and bring them to other people share them with other people yes dear in the back yeah like she's reflecting like a memory of a scene in a movie but walking through where you just know everything's fine you just feel immune to the stuff you know around you there are great people in in whether

it's in a church or whether it's in a battlefield there are people historically who have demonstrated that kind of you know i'm fine abraham lincoln just before gettysburg the the south won the war people don't know that the south kept winning and they pushed all the way to washington to the white house i mean it was pretty amazing if you think about it the south was like well we've won every battle practice i mean literally they won kept winning to where they it's like well what do we do now

we keep winning well i guess let's just go to the white house and they keep pushing north and people don't realize it bullets were flying by the head of abraham lincoln because he's standing up going what's this you know and they're like sir they gotta tackle him and hide him he stood up he knew this is not right something's wrong with this and miracles happened pushed them back and gettysburg happened and the war turned around you gotta stand and know that you're immune king david says you know in one of the

psalms there could be a thousand bodies to the left and ten thousand to the right and somehow i'm okay and if you think i'm okay and that's proof that i will not die you're not krishna tells you it's not supposed to be as long as you don't die it's even in death i'm fine oh i don't like that one i like the thousand to the left ten thousand to the right and i get to live forever you you can't as soon as you start making it your call you have attachments and you've already

lost even if you win the battle you've lost the war consciousness is what we're looking for and going for and never settling for anything less is our priority you're going to be fine i don't care how harsh the divorce looks it cannot touch the real you but the rest can seem sometimes hurtful and sad i understand yes i also really like the idea of god be with me in this situation i had a challenging situation a couple weeks ago well it wasn't really challenging because i asked for help before i went in and it turned out to be

this really it was with somebody who we have opposing views on things okay but um we found the bridge nice we found the bridge but i know i did it because i asked for help right you know i just said i i don't want to discuss these things unless nice you're with me and giving me so typically what would have been a combative conversation you surrendered not help this person see how i'm right but the bridge and the win-win and you felt a miracle happen that's exactly right very cool thank you guys yes one more

if i don't have the joy and happiness who don't like what's going on in my life choose different right choose again if the joy and the happiness isn't there choose again but remember i'm not shaming you for not feeling joy and happiness sometimes there's there's hurts that have happened cry go through do what you need to do call your sponsor do what you need to do that's responsible even if it means get in a bath and sit in there for an hour even if it means going to bed taking a nap do something but before you

go to bed surrender the stuff to god so that while you're sleeping neurons can be rewired it will happen and i've seen that happen in so many times in my life that i kind of laugh and sometimes i even just test it i'm already feeling like a seven just for the heck of it i'm going to go ahead and surrender and you know just just testing it and i you know 10 minutes later an hour later i'm a nine it's okay to to play with it and realize you have some say so here play with these things don't don't believe

high doesn't mean i can't go higher low means it's impossible to change it to high all of it's doable yes dear you know i like the part where you it it's not for us to decide it's not for us to choose when you were saying you know you don't have a backyard you don't have this and you finally said so go into the shower right because we always decide what's best for us what we have to do damn go into the shower and make that your where you have to go find your space to get centered

like the shower even see if if i say well this is all fine and dandy michael's talking about this and you know and i and i know people have their temple room you know where the inside they're the beautiful candles and crystals on table it's all beautiful and then they say but you know what it's insensitive of michael to say because i don't have a temple room i have a one-room apartment i understand and when you say they're for i don't have that room to go and find god etc etc you know that's kind of

a bummer isn't it and that person would say yes it is that's almost depressing that you don't have a nice space to go to yes it is and i would say to them and because you're not choosing to find a corner of a room you're choosing the depression you're not choosing happiness god and so on you're actually choosing non-happiness and that's depressing as a kid i had a room you know and whatever but i i didn't feel great in my household it wasn't great you know what when my parents had their uh bedroom

redone and had new carpet i was like oh that is the softest coolest carpet ever so there was a remnant i cut a dang thing stuck in the corner of my room and i had my heaven right there if i'm always going to be thrown in my room on restriction i'm going to have a thick carpet that's that's where i spent my life i'm going to have a thick white carpet in the corner you know i made my real then i took my earthworm and fire albums cut them you know stuck them on the wall because cool atlantean posters i'm like

you're a shining star no matter who you are you know i made it happen so don't don't say i only you know i only live in my car fine dangle a crystal from the from the mirror you know if that's all you can do to make it your space there's always a way to do something there's always a way thank you so much take good care of yourselves in all areas of your life happiness is your destiny so why not now happiness comes from joy joy comes from connectedness it's hard to plug into god and go this is

depressing it doesn't make sense you plug in you feel joy the joy becomes happiness and the happiness becomes an external change in your life so please keep that in mind we're going to please stand we're going to do our closing mantra a moment of gratitude just feeling the aliveness thanks for your extra time we've gone a few minutes over but thank you and remember this doesn't end here take what you've heard absorb it and do something with it out there even if just one thing one thing at a store a gas station

whatever bring it don't say michael said don't say i was at unity and it did to me be this change and just bring a smile and let them it's really great to mess with people's minds that way let them wonder why you look so happy you know let them just go this is it must be sedona no it isn't sedona this place is nuts a lot of the time it must be oh they must have eaten properly no no i had donuts and milk this morning it's what makes them so and and leave it a mystery because you know what it is the presence

of god and if they ask you just say that just having a god day you know just leave it about you and god okay thank you so much the light of god surrounds us we are the light of god the love of god unfolds us we are the love of god the power of god protects us we are the power of god and the presence of god watches over us we are the presence of god wherever we are god is i am we are and so it is god bless you and thank you all