Be Happy Now

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I am dealing with more than a few physical discomforts on this first Monday of the new year. I slept only restlessly all night and woke up with a headache and some kind of stomach disturbance. Not to mention the normal aches and pains that go along with cold winter mornings. Oh, and of course the mental aspect would like to bring me down--when, oh when will my house sell so I can pay off my creditors and be debt-free? And to top it all off, we are just now moving into the transformational part of the ascension process, so there is all kinds of chaos, confusion and fear creeping into my awareness from the mass consciousness. Wow, things look grim, huh?

I could use all of this as my own personal excuse to give up-get sucked into the fear and foreboding of things to come. Be unhappy. I certainly have been given an invitation to join in! I mean, after all, I can't be happy when I'm sick physically and my mental and emotional bodies seem to be teetering on the brink of destruction, can I? By all outer appearances I don't have much to show for my nearly 60 years on this planet. Why don't I just join the party, dive right into the fear and desperation, maybe even check out of this incarnation?

But all of that is just backwards thinking, isn't it? I mean, when have any of us had everything exactly the way we think would be perfection in our lives? Once we take on a physical body, we all face the challenge of being in this world but not of it. The world-and being in a physical body-can be a really difficult place for a soul to be. Yet all of us-ALL of us-who are here on the planet at this time asked to come now, to be a part of the Great Shift of 2012.

I am a child of the Universe-just as you are-and I have a right to be here. The world owes me nothing. But the Universe gladly provides all that I need and more. For all the things I say I want-the new car, the house, the computer, the cell phone, etc.-what I truly want when I express my desire is to be happy. I can have all of it in this moment-at any moment. So "acting as if" I am happy now is no longer "acting as if." I am either happy or I'm not. It's all my choice.

Today, as I nurse my sick tummy and my headache, I choose to be happy now. To enjoy the journey-all of it-knowing that an abundant Universe prospers me in every moment. All I have to do to have more happiness in my life is to cause others to experience happiness in theirs. Oh, and that invitation to jump on the desperation train? I think I'll pass!

Namaste!