Happier than God

I am reading a book by Neale Donald Walsch called Happier than God. Now, I need to try to LIVE it. Because I believe it all.

I especially believe in ONENESS. I DO believe if God is "omni-present" than he is in EVERYTHING.... including me and including YOU. That makes us all ONE. That realization has changed my life, but of course I still struggle. This book really can help me, if I just choose to live it now.

1. Bring an end to separation theology.
That one is easy for me. I do not believe heaven and God are "over there".... and I am "over here"... we are one. There is NOW. Only NOW. And we are all one. I get that. I have gotten that for a long time. I actually have gotten it my whole life, but I didn't know the terminology for it until recently.

2. Stay in touch with who you are.
I am not my body. I am a soul who has a body. An eternal soul.

3. Give others every experience you seek.
"Give people back to themselves." Personal Creation begins best with another. Focus on the other, always the other, never first on the self. What you bring to another you bring to yourself, ten-fold.

4. Be clear that nothing you see is real.
I am creating my experience.. all of it. What I am experiencing, I am CHOOSING to experience. What is happening is happening, but how you are experiencing what is happening is something you are making up.

5. Decide that you are not your "story."
"In order to experience what is happening in a way that preserves your happiness you will most likely have to drop your story." Happiness will never be found in your story, only in your newest and grandest decision about yourself and others.

6. Have only preferences.
"Many people make themselves unhappy simply by finding it impossible to accept life as it is presenting itself right here, right now."
This does not mean never to seek to change anything. It DOES mean not to base your happiness on whether or not that change occurs. This is about shifting from addictions to preferences.

There is always something to CELEBRATE so long as life is being lived.

7. See the perfection.
See everything for what it is: the perfect event perfectly timed to provide you with the perfect opportunity to express in the perfect way that which is Perfection Itself.

8. Bypass the drama.
Nothing has any meaning save the meaning you give it.

Nothing has any meaning save the meaning you give it.

Learn not to jump into reaction mode at the first appearance of negative energy.

Go to a place of gratitude as often as you can.

And don't be afraid to use humor to stay there.

9. Understand sadness.
There is a difference between sadness and unhappiness. Your sadness does not have to make you UNHAPPY. Sadness is also a gift... and when you embrace it you can move on.

Happiness is achieved through the simple process of embracing all of life exactly as it is.

10. Stop arguing with life.
Let go of judging EVERYTHING.
Judgement has no place in a loving heart.

Observation says "what's so"
Judgement says "so what?"

11. Drop all expectations.
Forget about how things SHOULD be. There is no such thing as "should" in the universe. There is more going on than meets the eye.

12. Have compassion for yourself.
If you saw yourself as God sees you, you would smile a lot.

13. Speak your truth as soon as you know it.
Seek to live authentically, seek to be fully you.

Tell your truth and then live your truth.


14. Watch the energies, catch the vibe.
You can see them, hear them and feel them.

Light, sound, feeling.

Only allow those that resonate with you to stay in your space. You may end up changing what you eat, watch, listen to, and who you hang out with....


15. Smile.
A smile actually changes the vibe of your body. It alters, physiologically, the chemistry of your being. It releases endorphins that have a health-giving effect.

16. Sing.
You cannot sing with a rotten disposition. Singing connects the mind with the heart adn the heart with the sould, so SING!

17. Know what to do when things are really bad.
Sometimes things ARE bad... no amount of "positive thinking" can change that. Things are what they are. You can't cover it up. You can't pretend, you can't make it something other than what it is.

First.. do not resisit what is occuring. What you resist, persists. Accept and receive the energy, because only then can you heal it. What you do not hold, you cannot heal.

So, you must hold your experience: embrace it, engage it with loving kindness, bless it... and THEN ... send it on its way.

Exterior conditions cannot create interior conditions.. EVER.

You are still in charge of your own experience.

"thank you god for helping me understand this problem has already been solved for me."