It’s Okay to Be Happy

I want you to know that it’s okay to be happy.

It’s okay to feel joy.

It’s okay to feel peaceful.

It’s okay to feel deep gratitude and appreciation for early blooming flowers, a clear blue sky, your fur babies, and loved ones.

It’s okay to feel good.

…even now, when so many on the planet are worried and scared.

We can feel good while being considerate and sympathetic that others may not.

I wish I could prescribe joy.

While joy may seem like a frivolous and irresponsible thing to suggest, let alone feel at a time like this, it’s absolutely not.

Joy is a super power.

How so?

Because joy heals.

When we do things that bring us pleasure and joy our nervous system calms allowing our body/mind to naturally heal itself.

What’s more, when we feel happiness and joy our energy vibrates at a much higher level, which helps heal not only ourselves but the whole planet.

Remember the Maharishi Effect? It was coined after Maharishi Mahesh Yogi predicted, and a subsequent researched study confirmed, that when 1% of a population practices advanced meditation the whole community experiences measurable improvements in the quality of life as a result. In the study the crime rate dropped by 16%!  This is a powerful indication that there is a coherence effect in the field of our collective consciousness.

“The more powerfully that underlying field is enlivened, the greater the unifying influence of peace and harmony on the surface levels of life.”

In my mind, this means your joy, and your peace and calm, if you’re feeling it right now, can have a powerful healing influence on your community. Not because of anything you say or do overtly but merely because your positive vibration ripples out like a rain drop in water to those around you.

So if you catch yourself feeling guilty for experiencing pockets of joy, happiness, and peace during a time like this. Let the guilt go. Embrace the joy when you can and know it’s for a good cause. Joy heals.

Have a fabulous day!

PS: Listen to my latest podcast entitled, How to Really Follow Your Bliss. I produced it many weeks before the pandemic, but its message about the positive benefits of joy are even more important today.

PPS: And, if you are struggling with your emotions right now that is okay too. You can find some helpful tips on how to process your emotions in my earlier podcast “Negative Emotions Are Not Bad.”