Discovering Your Well of Joy

Discovering Your Well of Joy
Ascended Master, El Morya’s Weekly Message ~ February 04 – 11, 2014
Received by Julie Miller
February 04, 2014

It is clearly understood that all dear souls want happiness and to be in a state of happiness is one of your primary and fundamental needs. The question dear ones, if everyone wants happiness, and if everyone is searching for happiness, then why is not everyone living and being in a state of peace and happiness? What we witness more often-than-not are so many dear souls making their life complicated by choosing ways that don’t honour peaceful solutions, but the truth is dear ones the solution to bringing more happiness into your life is not by creating more complicated ways of living. While you are on a personal journey of self-improvement, what often occurs is that you base what you discover from just what you have experienced, when in fact self-improvement is more than discovering what needs further developing. Self-improvement requires you to search, to learn and to explore the many facets that make you…you. It requires you to stretch your mind and enter new and unexplored areas that will broaden your own personal understanding of your whole self and the world that is constantly moving around you.

Have you ever stopped long enough to figure out what is happiness to you? What is happiness to one dear soul will not necessarily be the same for the next dear soul. Each of you already carries a concept of what determines true happiness. For many dear souls, happiness may feel having material possessions creates happiness, or maintaining good personal health. Whereas other dear souls may consider happiness to be an essential connection to the many relationships they are part of and of the quality within each one. What do you think determines happiness for you, and do you ever consider happiness to be an indescribable quality that is somehow managed by outside forces, such as your health, financial status, or relationships, or possibly happiness is determined by your genetics and living conditions?

For the dear souls that find happiness within materialism. These kinds of people can become accustomed to having certain possessions and to increasing their supply of new gadgets and electronic devices which in turn creates less happiness. Just because someone has a lot of materialistic stuff doesn’t make them happy, just means they have a lot of stuff. Part of happiness is being able to appreciate what you already have, without trying or wanting to update, upgrade or by expanding your supply of things that after a short time their novelty wears off.

Finding happiness within relationships can be obscure but not impossible. If you are able to maintain a close and meaningful relationship with another dear soul, one that is compassionate, respectful, loving and kind it is more than possible to be a real and long-lasting source of happiness. But as we observe so many relationships we are seeing many connections do not last due to one issue or another and the outcome is not a happy one.

There are many dear souls among you, scientists and people that study the human mind on the mental and emotional aspect have determined that happiness can be genetic. We are positive that you have been able to recognize certain character traits within siblings and other family relations and what has been realized is some character traits are able to be passed down through your genes and can become a predisposition for happiness. Those with a surplus of happiness are not easily drawn to negative things that are happening around them, what they are able to do instead is focus on the sunnier side of life and display this happier side wherever they go and the result for such dear souls is that they are more sociable and their mental and emotional health is much more stable and balanced.

By no means are we suggesting happiness is genetic, we are only indicating there are several factors to consider when determining what makes you happy and how to manifest more happiness into your life. Another important aspect that helps to expand the amount of happiness into your life is through the practice of gratitude. With the practice of gratitude dear ones, it creates possible positive outcomes that have great effects to your overall health and well-being.

We encourage the practice of gratitude and for it to be exercised as often as possible. There are so many dear souls, some you already know that are already practicing gratitude daily and you may have noticed how much more positive and optimistic they are. Being grateful will help with personal goals and to attain what your heart and soul efforts have been working on to achieve. Gratitude teaches you to appreciate the steps you have already completed towards the outcome you have envisioned and inspires you to continue with your efforts until all is done.

Expressing more gratitude each day will help increase higher levels of alertness, determination, eagerness and vital energy when compared to those that are drawn to the lower negative energy that life can emit as a negative temptation to steer away from what feels good from the level of the heart. When you are able to help another dear soul through emotional support, or to offer non-biased advice it will provide you with a comforting feeling that you will be grateful for and this good feeling will inspire you to be kind and compassionate more often towards others. You will become more focused on helping others and on the happy feeling that results than on the negative influxes of energy that are also moving in conjunction with everything else. Being in a state of happiness and gratitude will help you remain focused and on the path of goodness until this state of being becomes an automatic part of you.

Understand dear ones, the dear souls that exercise gratitude on a daily basis don’t ignore the negativity life can create, they just have a disposition that allows them to expand more pleasant and happy feelings instead. They choose to live in a state of happiness and they do this by being conscientious, helpful, charitable, grateful, unconditionally loving and pure of heart at all times – for these dear souls there is no other way of being and they make these choices that often seem like sacrifices each day because it simply makes them happy and increases happiness wherever they go.

The more you practice gratitude dear ones, the greater faith you will within the comprehension of your connectivity to God and the Universe as well as a firm understanding of your role and responsibility as a singular person working towards bridging the gaps of separatism and becoming more united with all aspects of life. You are not required to be religious in order to understand and to be grateful or to have faith, but understand dear ones faith will expand your ability to be more grateful.

It is understood that attitude plays a major role on your perception of the world and of life in general. We know you cannot help buying into some of the technological advances as they are there for your convenience and comfort, but we remind you keep in mind to appreciate these material objects, as there are many in your world that may never be able to have any of the electronic devices in their life time. And of course maintaining good health is essential to your well-being and it will contribute to your happiness and can easily add more meaning to your relationships. But we encourage you to understand that there are many dear souls who have everything, but what they are still lacking is true happiness.

Now is the time to take responsibility for your life. If you want to be happier, then end the need to search in external things or other people for your happiness. Remember, you alone are the source of your own happiness. Stop looking and searching for happiness; begin creating it.

Become more grateful for what you do have and for what you have accomplished thus far. Be more grateful and thankful for the experiences you have had, even the tough ones. Become more appreciative of the people that are a part of your life and get into the habit of thanking them for any kind of courtesy that they gifted you with. It is too easy to take what is in front of you for granted. Showing consideration is not a passive way of being, it demonstrates to those you are considerate to that you care.

We know it is hard at times to be nice to strangers, but in truth strangers are just people you have not yet become acquainted with. Treat all people with the same respect, love and kindness – let them know through your actions and words that you find them worthwhile. While being courteous to other dear souls, you will discover a well of joy open up and fill your heart with an overflow of happiness. It feels good to do good for someone else. One small act of kindness can mean the world to someone else who is having a bad day or going through a hard time.

On the days you are feeling less than joyful; make a conscious choice to still greet people with kindness and consideration. Just by changing your own thoughts while connecting and communicating with others, your feelings also change. What began as a dismal day can easily turn into a sun-shining kind of day very quickly just by the changing of your thoughts and feelings. It is your choice within each moment of each day to be happy and of course we encourage you to choose happiness over the vice-grip tightness found in unhappiness. This high, light and love fused energy will be felt by all that is close to you regardless if they are known, family, friends or strangers.

If you know of someone who needs a little help, possibly encouragement, support or just someone to listen to, don’t wait until they ask. Take the initiative by asking, “How can I help?” and follow through. There are many ways dear ones that can help to expand your own personal happiness that will create a gentle flow of peace and calm that will permeate every corner of your life and bring happiness to others as a result. We want you to be happy, you deserve to be happy, and it is your choice to find your happiness and bring it out for the whole world to see through your actions that are filled with God’s Grace, Love and Light.

And so it is…

I AM Ascended Master, El Morya through Julie Miller