Life process is – BE, DO, HAVE
Users of psychedelic drugs caution not to take the drugs if you are emotionally messed up or stressed out. They say it leads to a ‘very bad drug trip’ which means what you will end up experiencing will be horrible and scary. They advise you to put yourself first in happy place emotionally to get the desired ecstatic drug experience.
I am not suggesting to anyone to go about tripping on drugs nor am I speaking from my personal experience of any such psychedelic drug but I am trying to make an important point here and a useful suggestion further along in the blog.
When you ignore certain fundamental laws of the Universe then with or without psychedelic drugs you experience similar patterns in life leading to ‘bad trips’ with varying degrees of being horrible to scary. In order to have desired results you have to first be in a happy state even to do drugs!
Let’s explore one of the easily forgotten basic fundamentals of life –
Be, Do, Have (in that exact sequence).
- First you have to be happy,
- Then do an action from the state of happiness
- And then you will have what you desire
(I want to clarify that being happy doesn’t mean tripped out bubbling jumping happy after a movie, a party, drinking or shopping spree or something equally transitory and superficial but a pleasantly stable emotional state, a state that is not negative)
If you look around it doesn’t seem like this sequence of fundamental law is being followed. In fact, the trend seems to be to exercise just the opposite- i.e.:
Have, Do, Be
- Once you have what you desire
- Then you’ll be able to do what you want to do
- And then you’ll be happy.
This basic flawed practice is the basis of much suffering: unhappiness, depression, confusion, frustration, fear, anger and all that robs you of a peaceful life journey.
You see the Universe is in perpetual state of Joy. It’s very nature is Joy. Humans are the only species on earth that seem to have the choice to select happiness or emotional and mental suffering. No other species suffers like human species does. Rest of the nature doesn’t have that choice so it is in constant state of singing glory to God.
Humans have the choice to rise to their highest Divine potential or sink to the lowest of the underworld.
Universe says if you want to flow with me then match my vibration; my vibration is joy. If you wish to not match my vibration it is your free will but know that you will be driving against the flow. It will be tougher and could be tiring but hey, if that challenge makes you happy then go at it. You can turn around and go with the flow when you are ready. You are hard wired to turn around someday some time.
The situation seems to be that most people who continue to choose to go against the flow seem to lose their way back for lifetime after lifetime. They get so stuck in the suffering of push and pull of opposing currents that they even forget their natural state is joy.
The rule to notice is that actions done from negative emotional state will bear negative results.
Children are born naturally joyful which proves that human’s natural state is of Joy, until they get conditioned by well-meaning adults to flow against the currents too. At some point in this adventure you have to stop and remember your true state of being. Either you can willingly choose to remember or unending suffering will tire you enough that you’ll have to turn around.
Therefore, happiness is a Choice. Being happy is your own responsibility. All actions done from the positive state will bear positive results for you.
I know how mind boggling this is when you have thoroughly practiced a different way of living. For every five positive thoughts there could be a hundred negative thoughts going on, most of which you are not even conscious of. This naturally leads to a negative emotional state.
Consciously or unconsciously many people feel the need to drown out this negative state with variety of self-defeating habits including alcohol and psychedelic drugs. It becomes a vicious cycle.
Since it is so critical can you come up with ways to float yourself over to a happy state so life can start flowing with the joyful vibration of the Universe?
Here is one of the easiest and fastest ways. Give it a try. You will be happily surprised with the results:
Practice Gratitude.
Gratitude is the organic outcome of Joy. So consciously practicing gratitude throughout the day will lead you to Joyful state.
Start a Daily Gratitude Journal with following conditions:
- Commit to writing at least five to ten things you are grateful about in that day.
- Write in the morning and must write at least five at before going to bed.
- Make them all new ones without repeating them. Do not repeat J
- It doesn’t matter if they are about something very small or some big thing. Even if few seconds of a fragrance of the flower made you feel good you can write about it. It counts.
- You can think from your brain but write from your heart. What I mean is that you have to ‘feel’ what you are writing. (It is not a school homework J) In other words don’t complete it just to complete it with a cheat sheet or something.
I promise you’ll be amazed at the results of this practice alone.
- In a week you’ll have 35-70 to unrepeated gratitude list
- In a month you’ll have 150-300 unrepeated gratitude list.
- In two months you’ll have 300-600…..you get the point.
Anytime life seems to get you down just look at your list. It’ll be the fastest picker upper of your mood.
- Actually by this time you’ll have practiced so much looking for things to be grateful about that you will automatically be in higher spirits.
- Even while writing your gratitude statements you’ll see an immediate shift in your emotions.
- You will naturally start perceiving the positive side of things, people and events in your life, even where you couldn’t see it before.
- Added wonderful habit will be that you’ll become conscious of your thought process more. Most people tend to be quite unconscious of their chattering monkey mind.
- You’ll start noticing you doing actions from more positive state and then having desired outcomes.
(I am so happy with the comment of one of the Guru sisters on my Facebook page www.facebook.com/spiritualroute in response to my blog post ‘God’s reminders are everywhere’. She has attested to the wonderful results of the gratitude practice she’s been doing since I talked to her about it in 2011).
If you write them down the gratitude statements they become more powerful and go deeper to awaken the positive emotions. In addition, whenever needed, you have the super-handy documented reminders of all the joyful things in your life.
Remember to first Be Happy. Do what you have to do put yourself in a feel good state. But search for this feeling and find it in your inner core, not in the superficial trivialities. All the actions bouncing from that happy state will be aligned with the Divine vibrational flow to bring you what you desire.
Please report and share your findings.
